Senior Platform Engineer: AI-Driven Deployment & Scale

Adobe; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 229,000 - 331,000; Full time

Job summary

Adobe is seeking a Senior Software Development Engineer in San Francisco to lead the deployment platform, CI/CD strategy, and AI-accelerated development efforts. You will own greenfield services, build agent runtimes, and standardize ML/inference footprints while ensuring secure, scalable delivery across the stack.

You will shape the platform with cross-team impact, mentor engineers, and drive reliability, observability, and on-call readiness in a fast-growth environment at Adobe.

Qualifications

• Deep full-stack fundamentals and production-grade software delivery.
• Experience with front-end tech: JavaScript/TypeScript, React or Web Components.
• Experience with application services: Ruby on Rails, Python, Go.
• Experience with SRE/config/hardware layer beneath (Terraform, Chef, Kubernetes/ Helm, AWS).

Responsibilities

• Own and evolve our deployment platform. Lead strategy for CI/CD, PR environments, and release safety across a mixed fleet that includes containerized services, serverless services, and static front ends.
• Build the foundation for AI-accelerated development. Help build our agent factory and grow our internal agentic toolkit and skill library.
• Ship inference applications at scale. Take greenfield services from spec to production and standardize our ML/inference footprint.
• Modernize our services for the AI era. Identify where an existing service is held back by its current build and lead the fix.
• Rethink our security posture for agentic threats. Lead how we secure autonomous agents and their tool use.
• Expose Adobe Fonts to the agentic ecosystem. Extend our Model Context Protocol (MCP) surface and conversational, intent-based font discovery.
• Work higher up the stack, too. Contribute directly to search, browse, discovery, and the customer-facing experiences our platform powers.
• Hold ownership over what you deliver to production, encompassing on-call support, incident management, and the reliability of the services and pipelines that the entire organization depends upon.
• Set technical direction and multiply the team. Write the development docs, run the technical reviews, and mentor engineers.

Skills

Full-stack development

CI/CD ownership

React/TypeScript

Terraform/Kubernetes

AWS

Security awareness

Tools

Jenkins

Kubernetes

Terraform

AWS

Job description

Adobe is seeking a Senior Software Development Engineer in San Francisco to lead the deployment platform, CI/CD strategy, and AI-accelerated development efforts. You will own greenfield services, build agent runtimes, and standardize ML/inference footprints while ensuring secure, scalable delivery across the stack.

You will shape the platform with cross-team impact, mentor engineers, and drive reliability, observability, and on-call readiness in a fast-growth environment at Adobe.