Senior Software Development Engineer - Developer Productivity

Adobe

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Work type
On-site
Location
San JoseSeattle, WANew York, NY
Salary
$208,300–$301,600 / yr
Posted
7 days ago

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Above market

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This role $255k
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About Adobe

Adobe Inc. is a global software company known for creative and multimedia software products including Photoshop, Illustrator, Acrobat, and its cloud-based Creative Cloud and Document Cloud suites. Industry: Creative & Digital Experience Software

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TL;DR · Senior Software Development Engineer - Developer Productivity

As a senior Software Developer on the Photoshop CI/CD Infrastructure team, you will own and advance the build, test, and release pipeline for Adobe's iconic product across multiple platforms. Your day-to-day responsibilities include architecting, documenting, reviewing, and delivering complex infrastructure systems end-to-end, focusing on AI Factory automation to reduce manual intervention through intelligent failure triage and predictive maintenance. You will also design and operate AWS-based CI capacity, ensuring cost optimization and hybrid cloud orchestration. Required skills include 10+ years of experience in CI/CD and build systems, proficiency in Python and GO/Shell, and hands-on AWS expertise with EC2, IAM, S3, Auto Scaling, VPC, and cost management. Additionally, you should have a strong background in AI/ML integration for operational automation and multi-platform build system experience. This role offers significant influence across teams and the opportunity to mentor peers while driving architectural decisions that impact how Photoshop engineers develop and ship software.

What you'll do

  • Design and implement comprehensive CI/CD solutions for Photoshop's build pipeline.
  • Build an AI Factory automation platform to automate failure diagnosis and remediation.
  • Manage AWS infrastructure for cloud-based CI capacity, including cost optimization.
  • Architect pipeline infrastructure and toolchain evolution across all supported platforms.
  • Establish code standards and mentor peers on best practices and technical growth.
  • Identify and eliminate manual work to reduce the team's support burden permanently.

What we're looking for

  • 10+ years of software development experience in CI/CD, build systems, or developer infrastructure platforms.
  • Proven track record of designing and delivering complex end-to-end systems in production.
  • Hands-on AWS experience with EC2, IAM, S3, Auto Scaling, VPC, and cost management for CI/CD.
  • Practical AI/ML integration experience for automating operational decisions like failure classification.
  • Proficiency in Python and GO/Shell for developing production tooling.
  • Deep expertise in multi-platform build systems (Windows and macOS required).
  • Strong mentoring skills with a proven ability to improve team-wide consistency.

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