Sr. Staff Software Development Engineer

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Join Adobe as a Senior Staff Engineer and play a critical role in building and evolving the engineering platforms that power Adobe products such as Adobe Express. This role sits at the intersection of software engineering, site reliability engineering, and platform leadership, with a focus on enabling safe, scalable, and efficient software delivery at enterprise scale.

You will work on foundational systems that support multi-tenant, multi-region cloud services used by millions of customers worldwide. As a senior technical leader, you'll partner closely with product engineering, infrastructure, and security teams to set a higher standard on reliability, automation, and developer productivity while helping shape the future of how Adobe builds and delivers software.

• Design, build, and evolve highly reliable software systems and platforms that support large-scale, distributed services.

• Lead the development of GitOps-based workflows and deployment automation.

• Configure and operate services on Kubernetes-based platforms using standardized deployment and configuration patterns.

• Build and maintain infrastructure-as-code using tools such as Terraform to provision and manage cloud resources on AWS.

• Apply AI/ML techniques and tools to enhance the software delivery lifecycle, improve engineering productivity, and streamline operational workflows.

• Apply SRE principles to the design and operation of software systems, emphasizing reliability, scalability, risk management, and operational efficiency.

• Partner with application and platform teams to standardize patterns for service configuration, rollout strategies, and environment management.

• Identify and reduce systemic sources of risk, toil, and inefficiency through thoughtful engineering and automation.

• Contribute technical leadership through design and code reviews and mentoring, helping raise engineering quality across the organization.

• A degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent experience is required.

• 10+ years of professional software engineering experience, with a strong emphasis on distributed systems and cloud-native architectures.

• Deep experience with GitOps alongside equivalent experience, CI/CD pipelines, and software delivery systems at scale.

• Hands-on and extensive experience working with Kubernetes-based platforms.

• Demonstrated use of AI/ML or intelligent automation to improve engineering productivity, reliability, or operational efficiency.

• Strong expertise with cloud platforms such as AWS and infrastructure-as-code practices.

• Strong programming skills in one or more languages commonly used in platform engineering (e.g., JavaScript/TypeScript, Go, Python, or similar).

• Demonstrated experience applying Site Reliability Engineering practices to the design, delivery, and operation of large-scale production systems.

• Ability to work effectively across teams, communicate complex technical concepts clearly, and influence engineering direction through technical leadership.

• A continuous improvement outlook, with a passion for building systems that make other engineers more effective.

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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Massachusetts:

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