Senior Software Development Engineer

Adobe Inc.; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 159,000 - 302,000; Full time

Job summary

Adobe is seeking a Senior Software Development Engineer in San Francisco to lead our deployment and AI-enabled development platform. You will own CI/CD, scalable inference services, and secure agentic tooling, while shaping the surface area for model context protocols and developer experiences across Creative Cloud.

Ideal candidates bring 12+ years of software engineering, strong full-stack capabilities (JavaScript/TypeScript, Ruby/Python/Go), and hands-on cloud and SaaS operations, with a track

Qualifications

• Deep full-stack fundamentals and craft – build, testing, code quality, code review, plus production readiness.
• End-to-end ownership of services with latency, scale, reliability and observability.
• Experience with large-scale deployment platforms and SRE-esque responsibilities.

Responsibilities

• Own and evolve our deployment platform, defining CI/CD strategies across a mixed fleet.
• Build AI-accelerated development capabilities and internal agentic tooling.
• Ship inference applications from design to production at scale.
• Modernize services for AI, improving build and deployment processes.
• Strengthen security for agentic threats and secure autonomous agents.

Skills

Full-stack development

CI/CD

Distributed systems

Cloud platforms

Frontend JS/TS

Communication

Leadership

Tools

Jenkins

Terraform

Chef

Kubernetes/Helm

AWS

OpenSearch/Elasticsearch

Job description

The Opportunity

Typography is central to how ideas are communicated. If you're passionate about beautifully created design, have deep curiosity about what AI can do, and take personal responsibility for creating products that people love; then this may be the role for you. Adobe Fonts supports millions of creatives in choosing and using typefaces across fonts.adobe.com, Express, Photoshop, Illustrator, Acrobat, and more Creative Cloud platforms. Our Internal Services team provides the platform engineering and deployment backbone for all of these. We manage CI/CD, deployment approaches, the services and data layers our engineers depend on, our observability and security stance, and increasingly the agentic tools that transform how our entire organization delivers software.

We're seeking a Senior Software Development Engineer to lead this exciting journey in our San Francisco location.

What you'll do

• 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.

What we're looking for

Software engineering

• Deep full-stack fundamentals and craft - build, testing, code quality, code review - plus system development and production maturity: latency, scale, reliability, observability, and on-call ownership.
• Ships and owns services end to end, and reasons fluently across the whole stack: front end (JavaScript/TypeScript, React or Web Components), application services (Ruby/Rails, Python, Go, and comfort picking up others), and the SRE/config/hardware layer beneath (Terraform, Chef, Kubernetes/Helm, AWS).

Platform & deployment depth

• Strong CI/CD ownership (Jenkins or equivalent), containerization and orchestration, infrastructure-as-code, and AWS (EC2/ASG, IAM, Lambda, API Gateway, CloudFront). Experience making deployment fast, safe, and self-service - episodic/preview environments, progressive delivery, rollback strategy.
• Solid grasp of the data and messaging layers behind real services, including relational, caching, search, and event-driven/pub-sub. You know how to run migrations and upgrades without downtime.

AI/agentic proficiency

• Hands-on understanding of building AI-enabled systems: agent runtimes, tool calling, MCP, LLM/inference serving, and the infrastructure around them - evaluation, feedback loops, observability, and sandboxed execution.
• A security outlook for this new surface - you think about how agentic systems fail and get abused, and proactively build guardrails accordingly.

Leadership & scope

• Track record of delivering high-impact platform work used across multiple teams, leading complex cross-team technical efforts, and balancing near-term delivery with long-term maintainability, security, and operability.
• Excellent written and verbal communication.
• Typically 12+ years of software engineering experience, with demonstrated senior-level impact.

Nice to have

• Ruby on Rails at scale, and experience decomposing or modernizing a large monolith.
• GPU/model-serving infrastructure and low-latency inference (e.g. SageMaker, Kubernetes GPU platforms); search-engine internals (OpenSearch/Elasticsearch, vector/hybrid search).
• Experience building developer platforms, internal tooling, or agent harnesses adopted by other teams.
• Event-driven architectures and secrets-management platforms (Vault, CyberArk).
• Front-end depth with modern component systems (Web Components/Lit, React/TypeScript, build systems).

About Adobe

Adobe empowers everyone to create through innovative platforms and tools that unleash creativity, productivity and personalized customer experiences. Adobe's industry-leading offerings including Adobe Acrobat Studio, Adobe Express, Adobe Firefly, Creative Cloud, Adobe Experience Platform, Adobe Experience Manager, and GenStudio enable people and businesses to turn ideas into impact, powered by AI and driven by human ingenuity.

Our 30,000+ employees worldwide are creating the future and raising the bar as we drive the next decade of growth. We're on a mission to hire the very best and believe in creating a company culture where all employees are empowered to make an impact. At Adobe, we believe that great ideas can come from anywhere in the organization. The next big idea could be yours.

Let's Adobe together

At Adobe, we believe in creating a company culture where all employees are empowered to make an impact. Learn more about Adobe life, including our values and culture, focus on people, purpose and community, Adobe for All, comprehensive benefits programs, the stories we tell, the customers we serve, and how you can help us advance our mission of empowering everyone to create.

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Expected Pay Range

Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several U.S. geographic markets, and we pay differently based on those defined markets. The U.S. pay range for this positionis $159,200 - $301,600 annually. Paywithin this range varies by work locationand may also depend on job-related knowledge, skills,and experience. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for the job location during the hiring process.

In California, the pay range for this position is $208,300 - $301,600

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.

State-Specific Notices

California

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Colorado

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Massachusetts

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