Software Development Engineer 3

Flex Engineering Team (CET) Opportunity

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!

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 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.