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 challenge

Do you want to shape the future of Adobe's delivery of personal experience at scale in real time? Are you interested in solving highly sophisticated big data problems with significant business impact?

Data Prep team has the charter of building highly scalable real time data processing and machine learning solutions that will power the rest of the Adobe Experience Platform. We are seeking a highly motivated individual to join a stellar team to help build this. Ideal candidates are passionate about working on high-performance, customer data platforms, and have a strong desire to learn and apply groundbreaking technologies!
 

The role

This software engineering professional would be responsible for developing a high performance globally distributed data processing infrastructure which is an integral part of the Adobe Experience Platform offered by Adobe. We will provide excellent exposure to the complete eco-system including batch processing using Apache Spark and stream processing capabilities with Kafka, Kubernetes based multi cloud environment with cloud agnostic deployment strategy, streaming algorithm driven data insights generated by machine learning applications.

Your tasks will include Software architecture, design and development of high-performance software using functional programming paradigms in Java/Scala. You will be part of the technical team running one of the largest content delivery and personalization platforms in the world. You will have the opportunity to define Adobe's technology strategy as we incorporate this platform in all marketing channels inclusive of mobile applications, display advertising, video content delivery as well as proprietary applications across the software landscape.

What opportunities we provide

• Design and build fault-tolerant, high-performance algorithms for data processing at scale.
• Deliver features from scratch by working closely with Product team, Architecture board, and leadership team.
• Develop CI/CD pipeline that automates full development and release cycle in multi cloud environments.
• Manage and operate hundreds of data processing micro-services in production that supports streaming, batch, and edge compute.
• Work with data science and research team to convert research outcome into production level products.
• Participate in open-source communities and contribute back to benefit the industry.

What is needed to succeed

• Education in Computer Science, similar technical field of study or equivalent practical experience.
• 5+ years of experience in related work and industry expertise.
• Strong grasp of algorithms and data structures.
• Experience developing in Java, Scala, Python with key on scalable design.
• Working knowledge of Kubernetes, Apache Kafka, Apache Spark
• Experience working on large code bases.
• General understanding of Git, Gradle, Maven.
• Experience in projects associated with streaming data processing.
• Taking ownership of designs and features and being able to work both self-supervised and in multi- functional teams.
• Aptitude for simple, robust, and elegant designs, including how to design maintainable and evolvable systems.

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 $154,000 -- $278,800 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.

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.

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

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