Software Development Engineer 3
AdobeSan Jose$149k – $215kPosted 7 April 2026
Tech Stack
Job Description
We are the Flex Engineering Team (CET) within Adobe B2B Journey Management , a group of creative problem-solvers focused on accelerating B2B marketing systems at Adobe. Our team builds innovative features and capabilities driven directly by requirements from some of the world’s largest customers.
This is a career-accelerating opportunity to collaborate with engineers across Adobe while working on sophisticated, large-scale systems. You’ll help deliver real-time, highly performant services that process large data volumes and complex data pipelines, participate in incident investigations, and craft impactful solutions for real customer needs.
If you take pride in writing high-quality code, enjoy working with large data systems, and love taking ideas from concept to production, this role offers an exceptional opportunity to grow.
What You’ll Do
Design, implement, and own features aligned with the product roadmap, with a performance-first mindset
Build production-ready code using highly available data streams, RESTful APIs, and diverse interfaces
Collaborate closely with product managers to gather requirements, assess technical feasibility, and propose effective design solutions
Coordinate with architects, senior developers, and cross-functional teams to deliver scalable solutions
Ensure high-quality components with strong observability, unit testing, and reliability standards
Lead and support incident response, customer service outages, and root cause analysis
Stay current with developments across the Adobe ecosystem
Build scalable, reliable solutions using established engineering best practices
Evaluate and adopt new technologies that meet product, performance, and quality standards
Demonstrate strong ownership, clarity, and precision in driving projects forward
Investigate customer needs and propose implementation approaches in partnership with product management
What You Bring
6 years of experience with Java , including strong expertise in Enterprise Java and frameworks such as Spring, Spring MVC, and Spring Boot
Experience building and operating large-scale distributed systems or data processing platforms
Strong knowledge of RESTful web services and design principles
Hands-on experience with APM and monitoring tools (Splunk, New Relic, Kibana, Vivid Cortex)
Experience with MySQL, NoSQL databases, Snowflake , web services, and data-intensive applications
Expertise in Apache Spark, Apache Hadoop, and Apache Kafka
Strong commitment to engineering best practices and scalable system design
Ability to model and solve distributed processing problems
Proven problem-solving skills with effective solution development
Excellent verbal and written communication skills
Ability to work effectively with cross-functional and geographically distributed teams
Nice to Have
Experience with AWS and/or Azure services
Knowledge of microservices architecture and Databricks
Experience with Scala and large-scale data frameworks such as Akka, Typelevel, or ZIO
Familiarity with JavaScript or TypeScript and front-end frameworks like React or Next.js
Work Model
Hybrid work environment (approximately 50% in-office)
Up to 5% travel
San Jose–only position
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 n ... (truncated, view full listing at source)
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