Software Development Engineer

Adobe Inc.
United States, California, San Jose
345 Park Avenue (Show on map)
Oct 02, 2025
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! Adobe 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! Adobe Experience Platform (AEP) and Adobe Real-Time Customer Data Platform (RTCDP) Adobe's AEP and RTCDP provide a powerful customer experience management platform that allows businesses to collect and manage large-scale customer data across channels and create profiles and audiences to deliver personalized experiences. AEP and RTCDP integrate seamlessly with Adobe's core services, enhancing our capabilities in real-time data capture, decisioning, and customer journey optimization. Familiarity with AEP will be highly beneficial as it underpins many of our newest capabilities across Adobe products. Join our dynamic team responsible for delivering a market-leading Collaboration product that revolutionizes Advertising and co-marketing efforts by bringing together top brands, large scale publishers, and data providers in a privacy safe, super fast, and highly cost-effective system. We focus on foundational elements such as Advertising Planning, Activation, Measurement, and Identity. Our goal is to lay the groundwork for higher-level services essential for our Brand and Publisher customers. You will work on high-traffic, high-visibility applications, handling immense amounts of data and solving challenging scaling problems. If you have a passion for big data technologies and a desire to work on cutting-edge projects, we encourage you to apply! What You'll Do Develop critical data processing workflows, high performance microservices, and advertising-related methodologies and deliver them to production at scale Articulate the choice of accurate tools and technologies Translate high-level requirements into meaningful tasks and actions. Optimize distributed microservices and big data applications to reduce cost and enhance availability Lead sophisticated, large-scale projects in an Agile environment using Java, Jenkins, and Spark Collaborate with multi-functional specialists (Product Management, Design, Engineering, etc.) to launch customer-focused solutions Communicate clearly with leadership to define goals Market ideas across teams and organizations Be a technical leader with the ability and desire to mentor other team members Promote a culture of continuous learning What You Need to Succeed Bachelor's Degree or equivalent experience 9+ years of industry software development experience Hands-on experience with open-source technologies such as Spark, Hadoop, and Kafka Proven record of delivering highly optimized code in Scala/Java Proven experience working with NoSQL databases, preferably MongoDB Proficiency in data structures and algorithms. Proven expertise in Java, OOP principles, clean design, and design patterns. Deep understanding of modern cloud technologies and design patterns for building "always-up" services Strong analytical and problem-solving skills Strong interpersonal and communication skills Unending curiosity, thoroughness, tenacity, and focus on quickly designing and building sophisticated software systems with great quality to solve customer problems Experience with Containers and CI/CD systems (like Argo CD and GitOps) Experience with other big data tech stacks and data cleanrooms (like Snowflake) is highly desirable Experience with AEP and Generative AI is a plus 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 positionis $113,400 -- $206,300 annually. Paywithin this range varies by work locationand may also depend on job-related knowledge, skills,and experience. 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