Senior AI-Driven Developer Experience Engineer

Adobe; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 178,000 - 258,000; Full time

Job summary

Adobe’s Horizon Platform DevX team seeks a Senior Software Engineer to design AI-powered developer productivity solutions that scale across thousands of engineers. You will help build high-performance web infrastructure and tooling, enabling faster onboarding, code review, testing, and deployment.

You’ll work on Bazel-based build systems, CI/CD pipelines, and engineering productivity tooling, partnering with product teams to reduce bottlenecks and improve velocity.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of software engineering experience building scalable applications, developer platforms, tooling, or infrastructure.
• Experience building or operating AI-powered systems that improve software engineering workflows, including developer tooling, code review, testing, debugging, CI/CD automation, incident triage, or other engineering productivity use cases.
• Experience working in large-scale monorepo environments, including build systems, dependency management, developer tooling, CI/CD workflows, and engineering productivity challenges at scale.
• Strong software engineering fundamentals, including system design, data structures, algorithms, debugging, performance optimization, and reliability engineering.
• Experience working in large-scale engineering environments and collaborating across teams to deliver technical solutions.
• Strong communication, collaboration, and mentoring skills, with the ability to influence technical decisions and drive initiatives forward.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement AI-powered developer productivity solutions and workflows that improve onboarding, development, code review, testing, debugging, incident triage, documentation, code quality, and velocity.
• Build and enhance large-scale developer platforms, including Bazel-based build systems, CI/CD pipelines, test automation frameworks, and engineering productivity tooling.
• Partner with product engineering teams to understand developer pain points, identify productivity bottlenecks, and deliver solutions that improve developer experience, engineering efficiency, and platform reliability.
• Develop high-performance, reliable, well-tested, and well-documented platform and infrastructure code that enables Adobe engineers to build, test, and deploy applications at scale.
• Mentor engineers, contribute to engineering best practices, and foster a collaborative environment focused on continuous learning and innovation.

Skills

AI-powered systems

Large-scale monorepos

System design

Engineering mentoring

Developer productivity

Communication

Cross-team collaboration

Tools

Bazel

CI/CD pipelines

Kubernetes

Terraform

OpenTelemetry

Grafana

Splunk

Job description

Adobe’s Horizon Platform DevX team seeks a Senior Software Engineer to design AI-powered developer productivity solutions that scale across thousands of engineers. You will help build high-performance web infrastructure and tooling, enabling faster onboarding, code review, testing, and deployment.

You’ll work on Bazel-based build systems, CI/CD pipelines, and engineering productivity tooling, partnering with product teams to reduce bottlenecks and improve velocity.