senior Software Engineer ic 15+ yrs Master's · Posted Mar 16, 2026
$173,500 – $331,050
USD per year

About this role

Adobe is hiring a senior-level Software Engineer based in San Jose, CA. The posting calls out experience with Java, Scala, Express, AWS and roughly 15+ years of relevant work. Listed education preference: a master's degree or equivalent. Compensation is listed at $173,500–$331,050 per year.

Role
Software Engineer
Function
software engineering
Level
senior
Track
Individual contributor
Employment
Full-time
Location
San Jose, CA
Experience
15+ years
Education
Master's degree
Department
Design
Posted
Mar 16, 2026
AI Summary
Design and implement high-performance data ingestion pipelines and storage systems for Adobe Experience Platform's Profile Stores, handling petabyte-scale customer data across multi-cloud environments. Requires 15+ years experience with distributed systems (Spark, Kafka), cloud data lakes (S3, Azure), and data formats (Parquet, Delta, Iceberg). Lead cross-functional teams building resilient, scalable services.

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Job description

from Adobe careers

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. 
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