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Senior Software Development Engineer

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Adobe

Senior Software Development Engineer

San Jose, CA

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 Experience Platform is the Adobe solution that helps customers to centralize and standardize their customer data and content across the enterprise powering 360-degree customer profiles, enabling data science and data governance to drive real-time personalized experiences. With Adobe Experience Platform, our enterprise customers are able to manage their data lifecycle. From ingestion to processing, analysis, attribution and activation, Adobe Experience Platform helps customer gain insight and use those insights in real time.

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We are looking for an experienced, curious and self-governing engineer to be part of a core component team. As a senior engineer, we expect the candidate to contribute and own heavily used and technically sound features of Adobe Experience Platform.

Tasks here can range from software design and reviews to developing highly efficient enterprise software and good quality code. You will work closely with architects, product management, and other stakeholders. Since most of the work would involve either processing high-volume data or managing sophisticated data pipelines, a candidate who can develop end to end view of a system will be preferred.

What you'll do

  • Design, implement, and own critical features in a micro-service architecture.
  • Coordinate with architects, senior developers and other integrating teams.
  • Ensure quality of component meets high standards and ensure all appropriate validations are in place and being monitored.
  • Subscribe to developments happening within Adobe ecosystem.
  • Work closely with product managers to gather requirements, analyze technical feasibility, and propose design solutions that meet business objectives.
  • Architect scalable and reliable systems by applying best practices in system design.
  • Keep on look out for upcoming technologies and cost saving initiatives without compromising the product requirements and quality in a fast paced environment.
  • Act with clarity and precision, ensuring projects are driven with a strong sense of ownership and direction.

What you'll need to succeed

  • Masters' degree in Computer Science, or equivalent experience.
  • Prior experience working on large scale distributed systems or data processing systems.
  • Proficiency in Java and/or Scala.
  • Expertise in RESTful web services and design principals.
  • Expertise in SQL DB, No-SQL DB, Web Services, Data Intensive applications, Data Processing pipelines.
  • Exposure to Apache Spark, Apache Hadoop, Apache Kafka, AWS Services, Azure Services, Microservice Architecture, Databricks.
  • Always striving to implement coding best practices and scalable design.
  • Ability to model solutions for distributed processing problems.

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 $133,900 -- $242,000 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.

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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Client-provided location(s): San Jose, CA, USA
Job ID: Adobe-R147286
Employment Type: Full Time