Staff Software Development Engineer 50

Adobe•San Jose, CA

2d•$159,200 - $301,600

About The Position

The Opportunity B2B marketing is being reinvented. The buyers have changed — they expect consumer-grade experiences with enterprise-grade precision. Adobe Journey Optimizer B2B is how the world's most ambitious companies will meet that expectation, and the data foundation you build will make it possible. We're building the platform that powers everything: the pipelines that move data, the APIs that unlock it for teams across AJO B2B, the flows that AI/ML and customer-facing products depend on. This is foundational work in the truest sense — the decisions you make now will shape how this product scales for years to come. This is a rapidly growing product with a clear path to B2B marketing leadership. The customer base is expanding fast, and so is the complexity of what we need to deliver. We hold ourselves to a high bar: customers need features, quality, and speed — and they need all three, not tradeoffs between them. That's a hard problem. It requires engineers who can see around corners, who build systems that bend without breaking, and who take genuine pride in what ships. How We Work Our team is passionate about innovation, collaboration, and delivering impactful solutions that drive business outcomes. We experiment in a controlled way with observability and rollback plans. We document thoughtfully. The agentic AI augments our workflow making it all possible. We move fast, but not recklessly. We support creativity that yields results: novel approaches are welcome, when they ship to production and serve real customers.

Requirements

7+ years building software, with substantial experience in data-intensive systems
Strong programming in Java or Scala with Spring Boot
Deep understanding of distributed systems — you know how they fail and how to design for resilience
Production experience with streaming (Kafka), batch processing (Spark), and orchestration (Airflow)
Solid command of relational (MySQL/Postgres) and NoSQL (MongoDB) databases
Experience with Docket and CI/CD
A track record of technical leadership: shaping architecture, mentoring peers, driving decisions through influence
Communication skills that make complex systems understandable to any audience
Ownership mentality — you don't wait for permission to fix what's broken
Comfort with ambiguity, adaptability to evolving priorities, and the ability to work autonomously.

Nice To Haves

Experience building data platforms that other teams treat as critical infrastructure
Exposure to AI/ML systems — as a data provider, platform builder, or consumer
A creative streak — you challenge assumptions and find better ways, then prove them out

Responsibilities

Design and build the data pipelines — real-time streaming, batch ETL, CDC — that form the backbone of AJO-B2B
Compose data access solutions and APIs that other engineering teams, ML systems, and customer products rely on
Make architectural decisions that balance speed, reliability, and maintainability across Kafka, Spark, Snowflake, Airflow, MySQL stack
Mentor engineers and elevate the team's capabilities through design reviews, pairing, and collaborative learning
Champion engineering rigor: observability, testing, documentation, and operational excellence
Partner with product and leadership to translate ambitious goals into systems that actually work at scale
Integrate AI tooling into development workflows to ship quality features
Build technical specifications, prototypes and presentations to communicate your ideas