Software Development Engineer 3

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!

We are the Flex Engineering Team (CET) within Adobe B2B Journey Management, a group of creative problem-solvers focused on accelerating B2B marketing systems at Adobe. Our team builds innovative features and capabilities driven directly by requirements from some of the world's largest customers.

This is a career-accelerating opportunity to collaborate with engineers across Adobe while working on sophisticated, large-scale systems. You'll help deliver real-time, highly performant services that process large data volumes and complex data pipelines, participate in incident investigations, and craft impactful solutions for real customer needs.

If you take pride in writing high-quality code, enjoy working with large data systems, and love taking ideas from concept to production, this role offers an exceptional opportunity to grow.

What You'll Do

Design, implement, and own features aligned with the product roadmap, with a performance-first mindset

Build production-ready code using highly available data streams, RESTful APIs, and diverse interfaces

Collaborate closely with product managers to gather requirements, assess technical feasibility, and propose effective design solutions

Coordinate with architects, senior developers, and cross-functional teams to deliver scalable solutions

Ensure high-quality components with strong observability, unit testing, and reliability standards

Lead and support incident response, customer service outages, and root cause analysis

Stay current with developments across the Adobe ecosystem

Build scalable, reliable solutions using established engineering best practices

Evaluate and adopt new technologies that meet product, performance, and quality standards

Demonstrate strong ownership, clarity, and precision in driving projects forward

Investigate customer needs and propose implementation approaches in partnership with product management

What You Bring

6+ years of experience with Java, including strong expertise in Enterprise Java and frameworks such as Spring, Spring MVC, and Spring Boot

Experience building and operating large-scale distributed systems or data processing platforms

Strong knowledge of RESTful web services and design principles

Hands-on experience with APM and monitoring tools (Splunk, New Relic, Kibana, Vivid Cortex)

Experience with MySQL, NoSQL databases, Snowflake, web services, and data-intensive applications

Expertise in Apache Spark, Apache Hadoop, and Apache Kafka

Strong commitment to engineering best practices and scalable system design

Ability to model and solve distributed processing problems

Proven problem-solving skills with effective solution development

Excellent verbal and written communication skills

Ability to work effectively with cross-functional and geographically distributed teams

Nice to Have

Experience with AWS and/or Azure services

Knowledge of microservices architecture and Databricks

Experience with Scala and large-scale data frameworks such as Akka, Typelevel, or ZIO

Familiarity with JavaScript or TypeScript and front-end frameworks like React or Next.js

Work Model

Hybrid work environment (approximately 50% in-office)

Up to 5% travel

San Jose-only position

Our Compensation

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 $114,100 -- $214,950 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.

In California, the pay range for this position is $148,500 - $214,950

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.

State-Specific Notices

California: Fair Chance Ordinances

Adobe will consider qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records for employment in accordance with state and local laws and "fair chance" ordinances.

Colorado: Application Window Notice

If this role is open to hiring in Colorado (as listed on the job posting), the application window will remain open until at least the date and time stated above in Pacific Time, in compliance with Colorado pay transparency regulations. If this role does not have Colorado listed as a hiring location, no specific application window applies, and the posting may close at any time based on hiring needs.

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