Lead 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 Opportunity

Adobe is seeking a senior software engineer to help drive strategic Cloud Efficiency objectives on large scale, multi cloud developer tools across Adobe. This individual will play a pivotal role in helping build systems which find and implement opportunities to drive cost savings and deliver value back to the business. Are you interested in large scale Kubernetes, contributing to cloud infrastructure, and writing efficiency tools and APIs using node.js? If so, this could be the perfect position for you to make a business-critical impact on Adobe's cloud infrastructure!

The Ethos team deploys Adobe-wide software and infrastructure technology, promoting containerization, clusterization, and continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD). We create tools, processes, and workflows that connect and empower hundreds of internal development teams.

We are looking for a deeply technical individual contributor who is able to drive modifications to our Kubernetes infrastructure to promote efficiency, including custom and off-the-shelf components. You will also contribute to internal developer tooling to help us manage, report, and remediate on cloud efficiency blockers from both a service and cluster level perspective. The ideal candidate is passionate about improving efficiency while ensuring service availability and reliability on business-critical workloads.

What You'll Do

• Deep dive on specific technical areas blocking efficiency and analyze solutions
• Make meaningful contributions to our Kubernetes infrastructure to improve efficiency
• Use data to make decisions on where to invest and iterate on our efficiency tools
• Iterate rapidly in the efficiency / reliability continuum to find optimal solutions
• Work directly on a small team of efficiency engineers contributing to Ethos
• Collaborate with adjacent scrum teams & other Adobe products on driving efficiency

What You Need to Succeed

• Minimum 7 years of experience working in software development for cloud applications
• Minimum 2 years of experience working with Kubernetes, at least comfortable with architectural patterns and tools as a consumer, ideally as an infrastructure contributor
• Strong software development skills in Python, Node.js, Go, or similar language
• An interest in the DevOps mindset and best practices from a software engineering perspective
• Basic familiarity with AWS Lambda, Serverless, DynamoDB and/or Postgres
• Understanding of cloud network architectures (VNET/VPC/Nat Gateway/Envoy etc.)
• A working knowledge of time-series monitoring tools (such as Prometheus, Grafana, etc.)
• Comfortable with taking initiative, owning technical areas, and working independently
• Excellent communication skills (we're a geographically distributed team)
• BS Degree in computer science is preferred or minimum 6 years' equivalent experience in software engineering
• Ability to take ownership, work under pressure and meet deadlines on time.
• Nice to have: experience in the cloud efficiency space

Some of the technologies we work with:

• Kubernetes
• ARGO CD
• Karpenter
• HEML
• AWS / Serverless
• Git & Github
• Node.js
• Python
• Go

About the Team

• We're building the platform to run Adobe's web, big data, and Generative AI services.
• Our team of 80+ people works in smaller groups of 3-6 developers. This allows us to be agile while working within a larger organization.
• We're globally distributed: the group is in India, Romania, New York City, Lehi, Seattle, and San Jose just to name a few!
• Our product and teams are growing quickly. Though we are established and iterating in production, there are plenty of challenges to overcome, decisions to be made, and new development to do.

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 $163,400 -- $302,000 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.

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