Remote Lead Software Engineer Jobs in Renton, WA

The Opportunity
Adobe empowers everyone, everywhere to imagine, create, and bring any digital experience to life. The Horizon Platform team enables the foundation for Adobe's web-based creative applications. Our mission is to enable Adobe engineers to build high-performance, scalable, AI-powered experiences - faster and with greater confidence.

The Developer Experience (DevX) team treats developers as our customers. We focus on engineering productivity, intelligent tooling, platform reliability, and frictionless workflows. We believe the best products are built when engineers can move quickly, safely, and creatively.

We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer who is passionate about building AI-enabled development systems, modern web infrastructure, and high-performance tooling that empowers thousands of engineers across Adobe.

If you are excited about combining AI, platform engineering, and developer productivity at scale - we'd love to talk.

What You'll Do

• Design and implement AI-powered developer productivity solutions and workflows that improve developer onboarding, development, code review, testing, debugging, incident triage, documentation, code quality, and engineering velocity.
• Build and enhance large-scale developer platforms, including Bazel-based build systems, CI/CD pipelines, test automation frameworks, and engineering productivity tooling.
• Partner with product engineering teams to understand developer pain points, identify productivity bottlenecks, and deliver solutions that improve developer experience, engineering efficiency, and platform reliability.
• Develop high-performance, reliable, well-tested, and well-documented platform and infrastructure code that enables Adobe engineers to build, test, and deploy applications at scale.
• Mentor engineers, contribute to engineering best practices, and foster a collaborative environment focused on continuous learning and innovation.

What You'll Bring

• 5+ years of software engineering experience building scalable applications, developer platforms, tooling, or infrastructure.
• Demonstrated experience building, integrating, or operating AI-powered systems that improve software engineering workflows, including developer tooling, code review, testing, debugging, CI/CD automation, incident triage, or other engineering productivity use cases.
• Experience working in large-scale monorepo environments, including build systems, dependency management, developer tooling, CI/CD workflows, and engineering productivity challenges at scale.
• Strong software engineering fundamentals, including system design, data structures, algorithms, debugging, performance optimization, and reliability engineering.
• Experience working in large-scale engineering environments and collaborating across teams to deliver technical solutions.
• Strong communication, collaboration, and mentoring skills, with the ability to influence technical decisions and drive initiatives forward.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience building AI-powered developer productivity solutions such as intelligent code review, CI/CD triage, test generation, debugging assistants, engineering copilots, workflow automation, or other AI-enabled engineering tools.
• Experience with agentic AI systems, AI orchestration frameworks, evaluation methodologies, and techniques for improving the reliability and effectiveness of AI-assisted engineering workflows.
• Deep experience with Bazel, including build optimization, dependency management, remote caching, custom build tooling, and developer workflow automation.
• Experience developing developer tooling and automation using TypeScript, JavaScript, Python, Go, Java, or C++.
• Experience with CI/CD platforms, build orchestration, merge queues, flaky test detection, release automation, and engineering productivity tooling.
• Experience with Kubernetes, Terraform, cloud infrastructure, and platform automation.
• Familiarity with observability and operational tooling, including OpenTelemetry, Grafana, Splunk, or similar technologies.
• Experience measuring and improving developer productivity through metrics-driven DevEx initiatives.

What Sets You Apart

• You are passionate about applying AI to improve how software is designed, built, tested, and operated.
• You enjoy building tools and systems that help other engineers move faster and more effectively.
• You can contribute at both the implementation and design levels, balancing technical quality with practical business needs.
• You proactively identify opportunities for improvement and drive them to completion.
• You treat developers as customers and seek to improve their daily experience through thoughtful tooling and automation.
• You elevate those around you through collaboration, mentorship, and technical leadership.
• You are excited about the evolving role of AI in software engineering and enjoy experimenting with new approaches responsibly.
• You have a strong bias for action and consistently drive initiatives from concept through delivery.

Why Join Us
You will help define how AI and intelligent tooling reshape the way Adobe engineers build creative software. Your work will directly impact the velocity, reliability, and innovation capacity of Creative Cloud's web platform.

About Adobe

Adobe empowers everyone to create through innovative platforms and tools that unleash creativity, productivity and personalized customer experiences. Adobe's industry-leading offerings including Adobe Acrobat Studio, Adobe Express, Adobe Firefly, Creative Cloud, Adobe Experience Platform, Adobe Experience Manager, and GenStudio enable people and businesses to turn ideas into impact, powered by AI and driven by human ingenuity.

Our 30,000+ employees worldwide are creating the future and raising the bar as we drive the next decade of growth. We're on a mission to hire the very best and believe in creating a company culture where all employees are empowered to make an impact. At Adobe, we believe that great ideas can come from anywhere in the organization. The next big idea could be yours.

Let's Adobe together

At Adobe, we believe in creating a company culture where all employees are empowered to make an impact. Learn more about Adobe life, including our values and culture, focus on people, purpose and community, Adobe for All, comprehensive benefits programs, the stories we tell, the customers we serve, and how you can help us advance our mission of empowering everyone to create.

Adobe is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. We do not discriminate based on gender, race or color, ethnicity or national origin, age, disability, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, veteran status, or any other protected characteristic. Learn more.

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AI Use Guidelines for Interviews:
Our interviews are designed to reflect your own skills and thinking. The use of AI or recording tools during live interviews is not permitted unless explicitly invited by the interviewer or approved in advance as part of a reasonable accommodation. If these tools are used inappropriately or in a way that misrepresents your work, your application may not move forward in the process.

At Adobe, we empower employees to innovate with AI - and we look for candidates eager to do the same. As part of the hiring experience, we provide clear guidance on where AI is encouraged during the process and where it's restricted during live interviews. See how we think about AI in the hiring experience.

Expected Pay Range:

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 positionis $139,000 -- $257,550 annually. Paywithin this range varies by work locationand 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. In California, the pay range for this position is $177,900 - $257,550 In Washington, the pay range for this position is $161,700 - $234,150

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.

State-Specific Notices:

California:

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Colorado:

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If this role is open to hiring in Colorado (as listed on the job posting), the application window will remain open until at least the date and time stated above in Pacific Time, in compliance with Colorado pay transparency regulations. If this role does not have Colorado listed as a hiring location, no specific application window applies, and the posting may close at any time based on hiring needs.

Massachusetts:

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It is unlawful in Massachusetts to require or administer a lie detector test as a condition of employment or continued employment. An employer who violates this law shall be subject to criminal penalties and civil liability.