Software Development Engineer

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 Adobe Experience Cloud solutions provide thousands of enterprises with deep insight into their customers, along with creation and management of content, assets, and personalized campaigns. Adobe Analytics tracks over 100 billion customer interactions a day and provides real-time interactive insights into that data.

We are a tight-knit, senior engineering team responsible for a critical collection of 20+ microservices processing tens of billions of data points daily across hundreds of pods in multiple geographic deployments. We own our roadmap end-to-end - from design and development as well as 24/7/365 operations of our services.

We're looking to add a talented Software Engineer who's passionate about large-scale systems and eager to contribute to one of the most data-intensive platforms in the world. If you thrive in high-impact environments and enjoy solving complex problems, we'd love to meet you.

• Contribute to the design, development, testing, deployment, and maintenance of large-scale, distributed systems.
• Operate, monitor, and debug highly-available services running in production.
• Continuously improve systems to meet reliability, scalability, and performance goals.
• Quickly ramp up on existing codebases and deliver meaningful, production-grade changes.
• Help define and measure success through the Four Golden Signals and SRE practices.
• Participate in on-call rotations and collaborate closely with fellow engineers across the stack.

• Strong fundamentals in computer science and modern software engineering practices.
• Solid programming skills in Java or Scala, with understanding of the JVM (performance tuning, memory management, etc.).
• Experience working with REST APIs, CI/CD pipelines, and observability tools (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana).
• Familiarity with distributed technologies like Kubernetes, Kafka, SQS, S3.
• Experience with QA and automated testing.
• Comfortable navigating and debugging unfamiliar codebases under tight timelines.
• An inclusive teammate who communicates effectively with different personality types.

• A lifelong learner with curiosity for new tools and technologies.
• Someone who takes ownership and drives projects from start to finish.
• Passionate about engineering craftsmanship and building things that last.
• Energized by solving tough technical problems with a fun, focused team.
• Have a clear focus on a career, not a job.

• Experience with big data tools like Spark or Kafka Streams.
• Knowledge of GenAI tools and workflows (Cursor, Augment, MCP, RAG).

This is a hybrid role based in our Lehi, UT office. Most team members work in-office Tuesday through Thursday, with flexibility to work from home on Mondays and Fridays.

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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