Senior Software Development Engineer

Adobe•San Jose, CA

About The Position

Adobe Experience Platform (AEP) enables businesses to deliver the right experience at the right time to their customers. The Segmentation Service is one of the key AEP services, providing the ability to define customer segments and generate target audiences based on real-time customer profiles. Customer segment definitions are sophisticated queries over profile and event data capturing specific attributes or behaviors shared by a subset of users. With the need to perform trillions of audience segment evaluations per day, scalability and efficiency are paramount in segment evaluation. This is a great opportunity for engineers to solve extremely interesting challenges of scale and build core services that are used by all Adobe Customer Experience Orchestration solutions. As part of building these services, you will work with an exceptionally talented and collaborative team, tackle complex query evaluation challenges, design & implement innovative algorithms and build highly performant services.

Requirements

B.S. in Computer Science or a related field is required
Experience building a scalable query engine or equivalent practical experience is required.
Strong grasp of algorithms and data structures
Strong programming skills with extensive experience in Java or Scala
Adaptable to evolving priorities, accepting challenges outside one's comfort zone, learning new technologies, and delivering viable solutions within defined time boundaries.

Nice To Haves

M.S. in Computer Science or a related field or equivalent practical experience is preferred
Experience in language design is a plus
Proficiency in Databases or compilers is preferred
Proficiency in Apache Spark is preferred.
Leadership skills to collaborate and drive cross-team efforts
Excellent communication skills

Responsibilities

Collaborate with a team of engineers & product managers in building a high-performance segmentation engine.
Own responsibility for design and implementation of key components
Develop query compilation algorithms that transform and rewrite segment definition queries
Develop query optimization and evaluation algorithms including multi-query optimization, incremental evaluation and streaming evaluation
Work on cross functional themes involving advanced data pipelines using Apache Spark
Build tools to monitor query performance and identify & debug potential semantic errors
Deploy production services and iteratively improve them based on customer feedback
Follow Agile methodologies using industry leading CI/CD pipelines
Participate in architecture, design & code reviews