Senior Backend Engineer, Inference
Adobe · San Jose, CA · Engineering and Product
About this role
Adobe is hiring a senior-level Backend Engineer in the software engineering function based in San Jose, CA. The posting calls out experience with Express, Machine Learning, Python, Kubernetes. Compensation is listed at $172,500–$306,625 per year.
- Role
- Backend Engineer
- Function
- software engineering
- Level
- senior
- Track
- Individual contributor
- Employment
- Full-time
- Location
- San Jose, CA
- Department
- Engineering and Product
- Posted
- Apr 28, 2026
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Job description
from Adobe careersFirefly is the new family of creative generative AI models coming to Adobe products that offers a new way to ideate, create, and scale content. It’s a natural extension of the technology Adobe has produced over the past 40 years.
At the core of Firefly are our commercially safe generative AI models trained on hundreds of millions of assets owned or licensed by Adobe. We are hiring for a highly strategic and visible role to help evolve these models and the associated prompt engine. This is an opportunity to reach millions of creatives, helping them reinvent the way they work.
What you'll do
Design and lead the technical development of the Firefly service and its components
Optimize services to address high performance, latency, and load requirements
Understand the service requirements and technical constraints of various platforms and come up with solutions to simplify the software stack
Develop efficient, reliable, testable services code in a variety of stacks (Python, Go)
Work closely with engineers on the team to guide the development process from
requirements and design through development, integration, testing, and deployment
Work with other Adobe teams advising on using our technology, investigating bugs, and collaborating on providing new features
Regularly review and tune test code to achieve a high standard of software quality, code coverage, and performance metrics
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