Senior Software Engineer
Adobe· startup· Software· Mar 16, 2026 · 8mo agoPosted 225 days ago
San Jose
In office
Full-time
Senior
$229K–$331K
15+ years exp
Before you apply
Ghost Signal:
Open since March 16, 2026 — 225 days, and still accepting applications.
Job description
The Opportunity
Adobe Experience Platform (AEP) enables businesses to deliver the right experience at the right time to their customers. The Profile Stores layer is one of the key AEP services built as a multi-cloud multi-tenant service to support 1000s of customers, providing the ability to manage a high volume data pipeline and storage layer for real-time customer profiles.
Customer profiles are built on complex data models spanning both record structures supporting upserts at scale as well as timeseries analytics event like data that is ingested at very high volumes. With the need to support to support 1000s of customers ingesting and storing PBs of data, resiliency, data correctness, scalability and efficiency are paramount. This is a great opportunity for engineers to solve extremely interesting challenges of scale and build core services that are used by all Adobe Digital Experience solutions. As part of building these services, you will work with an exceptionally talented and collaborative team, tackle complex data challenges and build highly performant services on various open-source technologies.
***This role is senior in scope and is best suited for candidates with 15 years of industry background.
What you ll Do
Collaborate with a team of engineers & product managers in building high-performance data ingestion pipelines and data store to serve the use cases of Segmentation and Activation.
Own responsibility for design and implementation of key components of ingesting and maintaining petabyte of Profile data
Develop systems to support high volume data ingestion pipelines handling both streaming and batch processing.
Leverage popular file and table formats to design storage models to support the required ingestion volumes and data access patterns.
Explore tradeoffs across different formats and schema layouts driven by workload and application characteristics
Deploy production services and iteratively improve them based on customer feedback
Follow Agile methodologies using industry leading CI/CD pipelines
Participate in architecture, design & code reviews
What you need to succeed
M.S. in Computer Science or a related field or equivalent experiences required
Experience with Distributed processing systems like Apache Spark, Hadoop Stack, or Apache Kafka;
Experience with Data Lake cloud storages like Azure Data Lake Storage or AWS (Amazon Web Services) S3
Understanding of file formats like Apache Parquet and table formats such as Databricks Delta, Apache Iceberg or Apache Hudi is preferred.
Understanding of NoSQL databaseslike Apache HBase, Cassandra, Mongo, or Azure Cosmos DB is a plus;
Practical experience in building resilient data pipelines at scale is preferred
Strong programming skills with extensive experience in Java or Scala
Leadership skills to collaborate and drive cross-team efforts
Excellent communication skills
Adaptable to evolving priorities, accepting challenges outside one s comfort zone,
learning new technologies, and delivering viable solutions within defined time
boundaries.
Ability to think through solutions from a short term and long-term lens in an iterative development cycle.
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
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Expected Pay Range:
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 $173,500 -- $331,050 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 $228,600 - $331,050
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.
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