Senior Software Development Engineer 4 - San Jose

Our Company · Changing the world through digital experiences is what Adobe's all about. We give everyone—from emerging artists to global brands—everything they need to design and deliver exceptional digital experiences We're passionate about empowering people to create beautiful ...

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Our Company

Changing the world through digital experiences is what Adobe's all about. We give everyone—from emerging artists to global brands—everything they need to design and deliver exceptional digital experiences We're passionate about empowering people to create beautiful and powerful images, videos, and apps, and transform how companies interact with customers across every screen. 

We're on a mission to hire the very best and are committed to creating exceptional employee experiences where everyone is respected and has access to equal opportunity. We realize that new ideas can come from everywhere in the organization, and we know the next big idea could be yours

Our Company

Changing the world through digital experiences is what Adobe's all about. We give everyone—from emerging artists to global brands—everything they need to design and deliver exceptional digital experiences We're passionate about empowering people to create beautiful and powerful images, videos, and apps, and transform how companies interact with customers across every screen.

We're on a mission to hire the very best and are committed to creating exceptional employee experiences where everyone is respected and has access to equal opportunity. We realize that new ideas can come from everywhere in the organization, and we know the next big idea could be yours

The Opportunity

The Adobe Journey Optimizer Team in Digital Experience Business Unit is building scalable, performant services and tools to enable our enterprise customers with extraordinary solution that allows them to reach and connect with end-users.

We are a team of passionate storytellers, technology innovators, and change agents. If you have expertise in developing on top of the JVM platform (Java, Scala), know how to build applications and web services at scale and you are interested in learning new technologies, we would be very interested in talking to you.

In addition to backend engineering, this role also offers opportunities to learn and contribute to Adobe's AI initiatives, including building AI-powered solutions and agentic workflows that enhance customer experience, reliability, and intelligence within Adobe Journey Optimizer (AJO).

What will you do

• Build, Develop, Test & Deploy micro-services for implementing product features

• Design/Architect solutions to implement functionality across multiple micro services

• Design Services that scale horizontally, perform at high throughput and low latencies

• Participating in all aspects of software development activities, including design, coding, code review, unit/integration testing, bug fixing, and code/API documentation

• Working in multi-functional teams to ensure timely delivery of high-quality product features

• Design/Build/Architect solutions for monitoring and alerting of anomalies in production environment

• Design & Build End-To-End Tests to ensure high quality and reduce regressions.

• Help build fast prototyping of ideas and concepts and researching the latest industry trends.

• Contribute to the development of AI solutions and agentic workflows that enhance customer experience within Adobe Journey Optimizer.

• Partner with senior engineers and AI specialists to integrate state-of-the-art models into practical product experiences (model building not required).

• Analyze system behavior and historical patterns to help design predictive and intelligent features that improve reliability, issue resolution, and system resilience.

• Participate in the creation of reusable frameworks and best practices for operationalizing AI features across AJO services.

What you need to succeed

• BS or MS in Computer Science or equivalent engineering degree
• 6+ years of software engineering experience having built highly maintainable, scalable systems with Java/Scala or comparable strongly typed language
• Experience working with streaming technologies like Kafka.
• Experience using NoSQL datastores like MongoDB, Aerospike, etc. as well as data access patterns and strategies
• Experience in designing and building micro services and RESTful services
• Experience in doing web application development with , , etc is a plus
• Expert knowledge of HTML, CSS, and JavaScript is a plus
• Proven ability to develop robust, efficient, high-quality code.
• Ability to troubleshoot and resolve problems using appropriate tools and techniques.
• Knowledge of modern development patterns: Agile, CI/CD, Kubernetes, micro-services architecture
• Knowledgeable of secure, scalable, and highly available service development practices.
• Great teammate with a thirst to learn and take ownership in a fast-paced environment.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to learn quickly and adapt to changing priorities and requirements
• Self-starter requiring minimal direction

At Adobe, you will be immersed in an exceptional work environment that is recognized around the world. You will also be surrounded by colleagues who are committed to helping each other grow through our unique Check-In approach where ongoing feedback flows freely. If you're looking to make an impact, Adobe's the place for you. Discover what our employees are saying about their career experiences on the Adobe Life blog and explore the meaningful benefits we offer.

Adobe is an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer. We welcome and encourage diversity in the workplace regardless of gender, race or color, ethnicity or national origin, age, disability, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, veteran status, or any other characteristics protected by law.

Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several  U.S. geographic markets, and we pay differently based on those defined markets. The U.S. pay range for this position is $139,000 -- $257,550 annually. Pay within this range varies by work location and may also depend on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for the job location during the hiring process.In California, the pay range for this position is $177,900 - $257,550

At Adobe, for sales roles starting salaries are expressed as total target compensation (TTC = base + commission), and short-term incentives are in the form of sales commission plans.  Non-sales roles starting salaries are expressed as base salary and short-term incentives are in the form of the Annual Incentive Plan (AIP).

In addition, certain roles may be eligible for long-term incentives in the form of a new hire equity award.

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California:

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Colorado:

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Massachusetts:

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Adobe is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. We do not discriminate based on gender, race or color, ethnicity or national origin, age, disability, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, veteran status, or any other applicable characteristics protected by law. Learn more.

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