Software Development Engineer

Adobe•San Jose, CA

About The Position

Be a part of Adobe’s Experience Platform (AEP), the fastest growing business in the Experience Cloud. AEP manages petabytes of data for our customers. It provides a centralized, standardized data platform and uses analytics to improve the design and delivery of personalized experiences. AEP is seeking a Software Development Engineer to join the AEP Core Platform team. This team builds scalable, performant services and tools to handle end-to-end customer lifecycle from building the platform for automated onboarding customers on the platform. This role requires extensive expertise in high-throughput, low-latency distributed systems. The successful candidate will manage a wide technical area by driving architectural direction within and across multiple AEP platform teams.

Requirements

B.S. in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent experience, required; M.S. or equivalent practical depth preferred.
8+ years of software engineering experience having built highly maintainable, scalable systems with Scala/Java or comparable, strongly typed language.
Deep proficiency in Java or Scala — including the runtime: JVM memory management, GC tuning, thread scheduling, and how allocation patterns affect tail latency at high event rates.
Proven ability to reason about system performance at scale — predict where a build breaks under load, profile production systems, and drive optimizations that improve real metrics.
Strong architectural thinking: understand complex, multi-service systems, identify where assumptions fail under scale, and communicate tradeoffs to technical and non-technical collaborators.
Ability to multi-task simultaneously different projects, having a positive outlook, motivated learner with strong interpersonal and written and verbal communication skills.

Nice To Haves

Unending curiosity, thoroughness, tenacity and focus on designing and building complex software systems with excellent quality to address customer problems.
Experience developing backend distributed applications on Java/JVM and Spring (or similar framework).
Shown experience using structured, focused approaches to solving technical, data, and logical problems.

Responsibilities

Design and develop distributed services that are resilient, highly available, and scalable.
Collaborate with business partners, architects, technical leads, product management and analysts to develop high-quality customer centric solutions.
Guide multi-functional technical initiatives across related teams, establishing architectural direction for capabilities that cross service boundaries.
Own feature development from inception to production rollout and postmortem & contribute to the development of engineering processes.
Evaluate innovative technologies and incorporate them, heavily use AI for improved efficiency, productivity, quality and iterate faster.