Software Development Engineer

Adobe
San JosePosted 1 March 2026

Job Description

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. We build profiles that capture user interactions across various channels. 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 modern technologies, collaborate on product definitions with Product Managers, implementing technical solutions with hardworking teams. You will gain expertise in the world of big data and building and operating high-scale and highly reliable services that receive Billions of events per day or process PetaBytes of data. Contribute to engineering guidelines 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 Bachelor's/advanced degree in Information Systems Management, Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Information Technology, Software Engineering or related field and 0-1+ 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. Proficiency in data structures, algorithms, caching strategies, async patterns. Ability to adapt and learn cloud technologies, e.g. AWS, Azure, GCP, Docker, Kubernetes. Able to understand distributed processing systems like Apache Spark, Hadoop Stack, or Kafka; Understanding of key computer science concepts for SQL or NoSQL databases like MYSQL, HBase, Cassandra, Mongo, or Azure Cosmos DB; Able to work in an Agile based 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. Th ... (truncated, view full listing at source)
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