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This role pays more than
83%
of similar roles. Most pay
$124,400–$185,236
— the blue band above.
At the midpoint, this role pays about
$198k
versus about
$155k
for comparable roles.
Based on 240 similar postings.
Employer
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
Adobe currently has
282 open roles
on FindRole.
Listed pay typically runs
$148,100–$282,100
across 76 roles with salary data.
The Software Development Engineer will join the team building Adobe’s next-generation AI-first marketing application. This role focuses on developing and deploying critical components of a new Agentic App designed to redefine customer engagement workflows with speed and full-stack productivity for modern marketers. You will translate high-level product goals into actionable engineering tasks, write clean and scalable code, and conduct peer reviews while driving best practices in CI/CD, observability, and performance optimization. The position requires expertise in Java, Scala, Python, C++, or GO, along with a strong foundation in data structures, algorithms, and object-oriented design. You will work with cloud-native architectures, microservices, and container orchestration tools like Argo CD. Experience with Campaign Execution systems and Generative AI is a significant plus for this technical role.
What does a Software Development Engineer earn in California?
Median $197750 from 81 postings across 10 companies.
Java
Scala
Go
Python
Microservices
Kubernetes
Docker
CI/CD
GitOps
Distributed Systems
Event-Driven Architecture
Cloud-Native
Observability
Generative AI
High-Availability Systems
Typescript
Go
Python
NodeJS
React
GraphQL
REST
Aurora
Distributed Systems
Microservices
ES6
Relational Databases
Non-relational Databases
Systems Design
API Design