Job Summary:
Adobe is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to take on a key technical leadership role in one of its core product areas. The role involves owning complex systems, making technical decisions, and collaborating with product and engineering teams to deliver secure, reliable software.
Responsibilities:
• Own and drive the design and evolution of complex, customer-facing software systems, from architecture through production.
• Act as a technical lead for your product or domain, providing clear guidance on design, implementation, and trade-offs.
• Partner with engineering, product, and security teams to align technical solutions with business goals and customer needs.
• Identify, assess, and manage security and technical risk, making defensible decisions with minimal guidance.
• Lead design and code reviews, setting a high bar for quality, maintainability, and secure engineering practices.
• Identify gaps in existing capabilities and drive improvements through code, automation, or architectural changes.
• Mentor and support other engineers, helping raise technical standards and grow expertise across the team.
• Contribute to cross-team initiatives and technical discussions, influencing solutions beyond your immediate team.
Qualifications:
Required:
• Significant experience building customer-facing systems at scale.
• Strong experience with our core stack, including Java (backend services) and modern JavaScript with React (frontend). Familiarity with microfrontend architectures and deploying, operating, and supporting services in cloud environments such as AWS, GCP, or Azure.
• Hands-on experience applying AI or machine learning in real products, including prompt design, model integration, or working with AI APIs. Familiarity with practical limitations such as hallucinations, latency, and data privacy.
• Experience helping teams adopt AI capabilities responsibly, including making architectural decisions, setting guardrails, and balancing experimentation with reliability and maintainability.
• Proven ability to design, implement, and evolve complex systems with an eye toward reliability, performance, and security.
• Strong understanding of secure software design and development practices, and how they reduce risk in real-world systems.
• Experience working in distributed, cloud-based environments and managing production systems.
• Ability to evaluate trade-offs across architecture, security, usability, and delivery timelines.
• Comfort influencing technical decisions across teams without formal authority.
• Strong communication skills, with the ability to explain technical risk and solutions to both technical and non-technical audiences.
• A track record of mentoring other engineers and contributing to a strong engineering culture.
• Typically 10+ years of relevant software engineering experience, though impact and scope of responsibility matter more than years.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• Demonstrated ownership of complex systems or product areas in a production environment.
Company:
Adobe is a software company that provides its users with digital marketing and media solutions. Founded in 1982, the company is headquartered in San Jose, USA, with a team of 10001+ employees. The company is currently Late Stage.