Adobe

Senior Software Development Engineer

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Base Salary

$159k - $302k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Own strategy and implementation for CI/CD, deployment platforms, preview environments, release safety, and rollback workflows.
  • Build internal agent factories, agentic toolkits, skill libraries, and AI-enabled development infrastructure.
  • Ship inference applications and standardize the organization’s ML and inference footprint.
  • Modernize existing services and contribute to search, browse, discovery, and customer-facing platform experiences.
  • Extend Adobe Fonts’ Model Context Protocol surface and conversational font discovery capabilities.
  • Lead security guardrails for autonomous agents and their tool use.
  • Own production delivery, on-call support, incident management, observability, reliability, and service operations.
  • Set technical direction, produce development documentation, lead technical reviews, and mentor engineers.

Requirements

  • Deep full-stack software engineering fundamentals covering development, testing, code quality, code review, system development, latency, scale, reliability, observability, and on-call ownership.
  • Experience building and owning services end to end across JavaScript/TypeScript and React or Web Components, Ruby/Rails, Python, Go, and infrastructure/configuration layers.
  • Strong CI/CD, containerization, orchestration, infrastructure-as-code, AWS, ephemeral environments, progressive delivery, and rollback experience.
  • Understanding of relational, caching, search, messaging, event-driven, and pub/sub data layers, including safe migrations and upgrades without downtime.
  • Hands-on experience with agent runtimes, tool calling, MCP, LLM/inference serving, evaluation, feedback loops, observability, and sandboxed execution.
  • Experience designing security guardrails for agentic systems and understanding how autonomous systems can fail or be abused.
  • Track record of leading high-impact platform work across multiple teams and balancing delivery with maintainability, security, and operability.
  • Typically 12+ years of software engineering experience with demonstrated senior-level impact.
  • Preferred experience includes Ruby on Rails at scale, monolith modernization, GPU/model-serving infrastructure, SageMaker, Kubernetes GPU platforms, OpenSearch or Elasticsearch, vector or hybrid search, developer platforms, internal tooling, agent harnesses, Vault, CyberArk, Web Components/Lit, React/TypeScript, and front-end build systems.

Benefits

  • The role is based in Adobe’s San Francisco location.
  • Non-sales roles receive base salary and may be eligible for the Annual Incentive Plan.
  • Certain roles may be eligible for a new-hire equity award.
  • Adobe provides accessibility accommodations during the recruiting process.

Tech Stack

AWSChefElasticsearchGoHelmJavaScriptJenkinsKubernetesPythonReactRubyRuby on RailsTerraformTypeScriptVault
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About Adobe

10,000+ employees

Adobe builds software for creative work, document workflows, and customer experience used by individuals, teams, and enterprises. Its products include Creative Cloud (Photoshop, Illustrator, Premiere Pro), Acrobat/Document Cloud, and Experience Cloud for marketing and analytics, sold primarily via subscriptions. Founded in 1982 and headquartered in San Jose, California, Adobe is a public company traded on NASDAQ under the ticker ADBE.

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