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 Our mission is to provide highly personalized digital experiences to customers across various channels like email, ads, push notifications etc. We strive to delight consumers with every digital interaction. To achieve this, we ingest data at scale, run sophisticated processing on data in real-time, and deliver captivating insights on data at real-time. Are you passionate about large-scale data systems and real-time processing? The Unified Profile team at Adobe is the best place for you!

We build large-scale systems that identify users across all their devices. Our pioneering segmentation engine can create highly targeted audience groups. As a developer on this team, you'll make sophisticated digital experience use-cases a reality.

The Role

This is an onsite position in the San Jose office.

• As a Backend Software Engineer, you will play a critical role in the delivery of highly reliable, scalable, and maintainable enterprise applications.
• You will work with pioneering technologies, collaborate on product definitions with Product Managers, implementing technical solutions with hardworking teams.
• You will gain expertise building and operating high-scale and highly reliable services that receive Billions of events per day or process PetaBytes of data.
• Contribute to engineering standard methodologies by providing guidance towards code review, test coverage, and promoting high standard methodologies in software development.
• Steer technical design and architecture discussions, making critical decisions that drive technical product design. Lead engineering efforts and projects to deliver critical components, new features and enhance performance of existing features. Optimize performance and scalability of backend systems to ensure high availability and fast response times.
• You will learn to master technologies like Java, Scala, Spark, Akka and will operate in popular public cloud infrastructures like Amazon AWS or Microsoft Azure.

Requirements: Employer will accept a Master’s degree in Information Systems Management, Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Information Technology, Software Engineering or related field and 4+ years of experience in the job offered or in a Software Development Engineer-related occupation.

Position requires:

• BS in computer science, MS in computer science preferred.
• Passion for developing high-quality software applications Analytical thinking and problem-solving skills
• Good understanding of data structure and algorithms
• Strong communication to articulate ideas and strategies
• Proven record of delivering highly optimized code in Java/Scala.
• Deep understanding of API design, broad knowledge of web standards relating to REST, HTTP, JSON, etc.
• Proficiency in data structures, algorithms, caching strategies, async patterns.
• Experience with cloud technologies, e.g. AWS, Azure, GCP, Docker, Kubernetes.
• Distributed processing systems like Apache Spark, Hadoop Stack, or Kafka;
• Any SQL or NoSQL data database like MYSQL, HBase, Cassandra, Mongo, or Azure Cosmos DB;
• Agile software development methodologies

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 $139,000 -- $257,550 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.

In California, the pay range for this position is $177,900 - $257,550

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

Colorado: Application Window Notice 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.

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