Software Development Engineer

Adobe

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Work type: On-site
Location: San Jose
Salary: $208,300–$301,600 / yr
Posted: 47 days ago

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Above market

How this pay compares to similar roles

Similar $178k

This role $255k

$123k most similar roles pay here $321k

This role pays more than 93% of similar roles. Most pay $142,437–$214,500 — the shaded band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $255k versus about $178k for comparable roles.

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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 · Software Development Engineer

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Join Adobe’s Experience Platform (AEP) team as a Software Development Engineer, contributing to the development of scalable and performant services that manage petabytes of customer data. You will design resilient distributed systems, collaborate with cross-functional teams to develop high-quality solutions, and guide technical initiatives across multiple platform teams. Your daily tasks include feature development from inception to production rollout, evaluating innovative technologies for integration, and leveraging AI to enhance efficiency and productivity. Ideal candidates have 8+ years of experience in building scalable systems using Java or Scala, deep proficiency in JVM memory management, and strong architectural thinking skills. Experience with Spring or similar frameworks is a plus, as well as a proven ability to solve complex technical problems effectively.

Skills

Java Scala Spring JVM Docker Kubernetes CI/CD AWS PostgreSQL Redis Elasticsearch AI Prometheus Grafana Git RESTful APIs JSON GraphQL Python JavaScript

What you'll do

Design and develop resilient, highly available distributed services.
Drive architectural direction for multi-functional technical initiatives across teams.
Own feature development from inception to production rollout and postmortem analysis.
Evaluate and incorporate innovative technologies to improve efficiency and productivity.
Collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver high-quality customer-centric solutions.

What we're looking for

Extensive expertise in high-throughput, low-latency distributed systems.
8+ years of software engineering experience with Scala/Java or comparable languages.
Deep proficiency in Java or Scala including JVM memory management and GC tuning.
Proven ability to reason about system performance at scale and drive optimizations.
Strong architectural thinking for complex multi-service systems and communication skills.
Experience developing backend distributed applications on Java/JVM and Spring framework.

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