Senior Software Development Engineer
at Adobe
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- Compensation
- $159,200 – $301,600 USD
- City
- Not specified
- Country
- United States
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Join Adobe's Serverless Runtime team to advance our Function-as-a-Service platform, focusing on performance, scalability, reliability, and security. Provide technical leadership by designing solutions, shaping architecture, and improving engineering processes. Collaborate across Adobe teams on shared technologies and platform integrations, and advocate for customer success by ensuring ease of use and strong developer experience. This role requires excellent communication in a globally distributed environment and hands-on work with cloud-native technologies like Kubernetes, AWS, and Azure.
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!
The Opportunity
The Adobe Developer Platform provides a complete ecosystem for building custom applications that extend and enhance Adobe experiences. Enterprises rely on our platform to develop microservices and single‑page applications (SPAs) and seamlessly deploy them with built‑in hosting.
Our Serverless Runtime team is reimagining how developers build on Adobe. We are advancing our Function‑as‑a‑Service (FaaS) capabilities to simplify extensibility, improve performance, and scale usage across Adobe and external developers. Our mission is to make powerful, Adobe‑integrated serverless experiences possible in minutes.
We operate a high‑availability FaaS platform trusted for millions of executions every day, using a broad range of cloud‑native technologies across Kubernetes, AWS, Azure, and distributed systems.
Technologies We Use
Ecosystem: Linux, Docker, Kubernetes
Open‑source: OpenWhisk, Knative, Akka, React, Nginx, Envoy
Languages: Go, Node.js, Java, Python, Scala
Cloud Providers: AWS, Azure
What You’ll Do
- Drive innovation across our next‑generation FaaS platform, with a strong focus on performance, scalability, reliability, and security.
- Provide technical leadership by designing solutions, shaping architecture, and improving engineering processes.
- Contribute to decisions involving feature design, technology choices, architecture, timelines, and testing strategy.
- Collaborate closely with teams across Adobe on shared technologies and platform integrations.
- Advocate for customer success—ensuring ease of use, high adoption, and an outstanding developer experience.
What You’ll Need
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills—essential for our globally distributed team.
- Deep expertise with cloud‑native and container technologies such as Docker, Kubernetes, and AWS or Azure.
- Hands‑on experience operating high‑availability distributed systems.
- Ability to work effectively across teams, building strong technical partnerships.
- Bachelor’s degree or higher in Computer Science or a related technical field.
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.
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Massachusetts:
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