Senior Software Engineer, Developer Experience

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San Jose, CASeattle, WASan Francisco, CA
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39 days ago
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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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The Senior Software Engineer- Developer Experience joins the Horizon Platform team to enhance engineering productivity and platform reliability for web-based creative applications. In this role, you will design and implement AI-powered developer productivity solutions, build large-scale developer platforms, and manage CI/CD pipelines. You will focus on improving workflows for onboarding, code review, testing, debugging, and incident triage to increase engineering velocity. The position requires expertise in building scalable applications, operating AI-powered systems, and managing large-scale monorepos. Key technologies include Bazel, TypeScript, JavaScript, Python, Go, Java, C++, Kubernetes, Terraform, and OpenTelemetry. You will solve technical bottlenecks by developing high-performance infrastructure code and mentoring engineers to foster a collaborative environment focused on continuous innovation and reliable software delivery across the organization.

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AI Bazel CI/CD TypeScript JavaScript Python Go Java C++ Kubernetes Terraform OpenTelemetry Grafana Splunk System Design Data Structures Algorithms Cloud Infrastructure Monorepo Reliability Engineering

What you'll do

  • Design and implement AI-powered solutions to improve developer onboarding, code review, testing, and debugging.
  • Build and enhance large-scale developer platforms including Bazel-based build systems and CI/CD pipelines.
  • Develop high-performance, well-tested, and well-documented platform and infrastructure code for large-scale deployments.
  • Identify and resolve developer productivity bottlenecks by partnering with product engineering teams.
  • Create test automation frameworks and engineering productivity tooling to improve engineering velocity.
  • Mentor engineers and contribute to engineering best practices and continuous learning initiatives.
  • Measure and improve developer productivity through metrics-driven DevEx initiatives.

What we're looking for

  • 5+ years of software engineering experience building scalable applications, developer platforms, tooling, or infrastructure.
  • Demonstrated experience building, integrating, or operating AI-powered systems to improve software engineering workflows.
  • Experience working in large-scale monorepo environments including build systems, dependency management, and CI/CD workflows.
  • Strong software engineering fundamentals in system design, data structures, algorithms, debugging, and performance optimization.
  • Experience collaborating across teams in large-scale engineering environments to deliver technical solutions.
  • Strong communication, collaboration, and mentoring skills to influence technical decisions and drive initiatives.
  • Experience with agentic AI systems, orchestration frameworks, and evaluation methodologies (preferred).
  • Experience with Bazel, Kubernetes, Terraform, and languages like TypeScript, JavaScript, Python, Go, Java, or C++ (preferred).

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