Software Development Engineer

Be a part of Adobe’s Experience Platform (AEP), the fastest growing business in the Experience Cloud. AEP manages petabytes of data for our customers. It provides a centralized, standardized data platform and uses analytics to improve the design and delivery of personalized experiences. AEP is seeking a Software Development Engineer to join the AEP Core Platform team. We build scalable, performant services and tools to handle end-to-end customer lifecycle from building the platform for automated onboarding customers on the platform. This role requires extensive expertise in high-throughput, low-latency distributed systems. You will manage a wide technical area by driving architectural direction within and across multiple AEP platform teams. What you will do: Design and develop distributed services that are resilient, highly available, and scalable. Collaborate with business partners, architects, technical leads, product management and analysts to develop high-quality customer centric solutions. Guide multi-functional technical initiatives across related teams, establishing architectural direction for capabilities that cross service boundaries. Own feature development from inception to production rollout and postmortem & contribute to the development of engineering processes. Evaluate innovative technologies and incorporate them, heavily use AI for improved efficiency, productivity, quality and iterate faster. What you will need to succeed: B.S. in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent experience, required; M.S. or equivalent practical depth preferred. 8 years of software engineering experience having built highly maintainable, scalable systems with Scala/Java or comparable, strongly typed language. Deep proficiency in Java or Scala — including the runtime: JVM memory management, GC tuning, thread scheduling, and how allocation patterns affect tail latency at high event rates. Proven ability to reason about system performance at scale — predict where a build breaks under load, profile production systems, and drive optimizations that improve real metrics. Strong architectural thinking: understand complex, multi-service systems, identify where assumptions fail under scale, and communicate tradeoffs to technical and non-technical collaborators. Ability to multi-task simultaneously different projects, having a positive outlook, motivated learner with strong interpersonal and written and verbal communication skills. What will help you stand out: Unending curiosity, thoroughness, tenacity and focus on designing and building complex software systems with excellent quality to address customer problems. Experience developing backend distributed applications on Java/JVM and Spring (or similar framework). Shown experience using structured, focused approaches to solving technical, data, and logical problems. 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 cus ... (truncated, view full listing at source)