Software Development Engineer, SaaS Platform

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

We’re looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join our Web Platform organization, which powers applications like https://www.adobe.com/express/

Our mission is to build a scalable, high-performance, and secure cloud-native platform that supports hundreds of millions of geographically distributed users and enables intelligent customer experiences.

This role is ideal for experienced engineers who are passionate about:

• Building and operating distributed systems at scale
• Owning critical cloud infrastructure
• Contributing to a robust web platform that handles demanding workloads in a public cloud environment
  
  

What You’ll Do

• Design and build robust backend services and features for high scale microservices SaaS products running in AWS.
• Create and maintain large-scale observability systems to collect, process, and expose critical metrics and logs for Adobe’s cloud infrastructure.
• Build resilient, high-performance APIs and services that serve real-time customer traffic on a global scale.
• Drive architectural design discussions and own significant parts of the platform from conception through production deployment.
• Develop with a strong product-first approach, while prioritizing quality, reliability, security, and performance.
• Collaborate multi-functionally with architects, product managers, and data engineers.
• Contribute to infrastructure-as-code efforts using tools like Terraform and manage CI/CD pipelines and container orchestration via Kubernetes.
• Monitor services with advanced observability tooling like Prometheus, Grafana, Splunk, and New Relic.
  
  

What You Need To Succeed

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science (or equivalent) and 5 – 10+ years of fullstack software engineering experience.
• Strong knowledge of Typescript and experience in crafting and operating cloud-native services.
• Solid understanding of cloud platforms (preferably AWS)
• Experience building RESTful APIs and scalable backend services.
• Practical understanding of CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure-as-code, and DevOps approach
• Familiarity with agile/scrum methodologies and collaborative, iterative development practices.
• Excellent communication skills and the ability to work across teams.
  
  

Preferred Qualifications (Bonus Points)

• AI Agents: Experience or interest in working with AI agents, autonomous systems, or AI-powered applications
• Model Context Protocol (MCP): Familiarity with MCP for AI model communication and context management
  
  

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