Sr. 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

The Observability team under Adobe Experience Platform (https://experienceleague.adobe.com/docs/experience-platform/landing/home.html) is looking for an innovative senior software engineer with deep experience in building large-scale, low latency, high-performance distributed systems. We are building large-scale systems to ingest and process time series metric and events data, optimizing the cost for storing billions of data points through a real-time aggregation pipeline, and providing APIs to query data within sub-seconds. We are also building real-time alert and notification systems for customers. The senior engineer will work directly with customers across the globe, product managers and senior architects to define the technical vision for the team and own end-to-end responsibilities in product development.

What You'll Do

• Define the technical architecture vision for the team. Build consensus with executives and broader organizations on technical direction.
• Build high-performance and resilient micro-services for processing millions of events at scale.
• Architect and design new features. Create functional specifications by working with product management and engineering team members.
• Advocate and drive cost-efficiency initiatives. Reduce the cost of operating services through storage/cloud reduction and efficiently using the infrastructure.
• Mentor, aspire, and challenge engineers in the team.
• Drive quality culture in the team by being a role model.

What you need to succeed

• Proven experience as a software engineer
• B.S. or M.S. in Computer Science or equivalent
• Hands-on experience with Java, Scala, Go and Python
• Understanding of time series databases such as OpenTSDB, alerting frameworks such as Prometheus, and monitoring tools such as NewRelic
• Understanding of metrics, alerting and distributed tracing systems design.
• Understanding of the Kafka framework
• Familiarity with Azure infrastructure
• Well-versed with distributed computing principles and experience building high scale high-performance cloud platforms and services
• Experience with developing and running microservices and infrastructure.

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 $146,400 -- $275,000 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.