Senior Software Development Engineer Developer Productivity

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

Job summary

Adobe is seeking a senior Software Developer to own and advance our CI/CD and AI Factory automation infrastructure. You will architect systems end-to-end, drive design reviews, and deliver production-ready solutions that reduce toil and improve developer feedback loops.

As a senior engineer, you will mentor peers, influence across teams, and set patterns for intelligent automation in the Photoshop CI/CD platform, spanning Windows, macOS, iOS, Android and Web environments.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of software development experience with deep focus on CI/CD, build systems, or developer infrastructure platforms.
• Self-directed with proven ownership: design complex systems, drive reviews, deliver to production.
• Ability to produce architecture documents, lead development reviews, articulate trade-offs and build consensus.
• Hands-on AWS experience crafting and operating CI/CD on AWS (EC2, IAM, S3, VPC, Auto Scaling).
• Experience applying AI/ML to automate operational decisions such as failure classification, anomaly detection, or intelligent alerting.

Responsibilities

• Architect end-to-end infrastructure systems from problem definition through production operation.
• Own the AI Factory automation platform and integrate LLM capabilities for auto-diagnosis and remediation suggestions.
• Design and operate AWS-based CI capacity on AWS including Mac EC2 instances and related services.
• Make architectural decisions for pipeline infrastructure and toolchain evolution across platforms.
• Lead code and design reviews, mentor peers, and drive best practices across teams.
• Identify and eliminate toil by building automation to reduce on-call burden.

Skills

CI/CD

Architecture

Solution ownership

Mentoring

Cross-team collaboration

Debugging

Production experience

Tools

Python

Go

Shell

AWS

Job description

JOB LEVEL
P50
EMPLOYEE ROLE
Individual Contributor

About the Team

The Photoshop CI/CD Infrastructure team owns the build, test, and release pipeline that ships one of Adobe's most iconic products across Windows, macOS, iOS, Android and Web. We operate Photoshop's CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure at a significant scale - thousands of builds per day, hundreds of engineers as customers - running across on-premises Apple Macintosh hardware and AWS cloud infrastructure. We are actively evolving our platform to incorporate automation that reduces toil, accelerates developer feedback loops, and allows the group to focus on higher-leverage work. We are building toward an AI Factory model - where intelligent automation handles routine operational decisions and the team focuses on problems that genuinely require human judgment.

About the Role

We are looking for a senior Software Developer to own and advance our CI/CD and AI Factory automation infrastructure. This is a self-directed, high-ownership role built around extensive solution design and end-to-end implementation - you will architect systems from first principles, drive them through design review, and own their delivery and operation in production. A core mandate of this role is to use automation to reduce the reactive support burden on the team. This includes building systems that triage failures, predict flakiness, auto-remediate known issues, and provide insights without human help. You will establish the AI Factory automation patterns and infrastructure that permit the team to prioritize strategic improvements and non-automatable maintenance. As a senior engineer, you will influence across teams, lead technical reviews, mentor peers, and make architectural decisions with lasting impact on how Photoshop engineers build and ship software.

What You'll Own

• Build and implement comprehensive solutions by architecting, documenting, reviewing, and delivering complex infrastructure systems end-to-end. Own the full lifecycle from problem definition through production operation, not just individual features or components.
• AI Factory automation platform - compose and construct the intelligent automation layer on our continuous integration and delivery environment. Integrate LLM capabilities to auto-diagnose failures, classify root causes, generate remediation suggestions, and surface actionable signals. Replace manual log triage with self-healing pipeline components, including flaky test detection, predictive build health, and automated failure classification.
• AWS infrastructure - design and operate cloud-based CI capacity on AWS, including Mac EC2 instances, Auto Scaling groups, EBS volumes, caching, cost optimization strategies, and hybrid on-premises/cloud orchestration
• Architectural decisions for pipeline infrastructure and toolchain evolution across all supported platforms

Code standards and patterns for our pipeline tooling codebase (GO Lang, Python, Groovy)- establishing practices that improve consistency and long-term maintainability across the team

• Lead code and design reviews, providing constructive criticism grounded in system-level thinking and production experience
• Identify and eliminate toil - proactively find recurring manual work and build automation that removes it permanently, measurably reducing on-call and support burden for the team
• Mentor peers on CI/CD best practices, AI-assisted automation patterns, AWS infrastructure, and macOS platform specifics
• Cross-team influence - represent the CI/CD team in conversations with platform, security, and product engineering stakeholders; drive AI Factory and cloud infrastructure best practices beyond the Photoshop team to the broader Adobe engineering community

What You Bring

Required

• 10+ years of software development experience with deep focus on CI/CD, build systems, or developer infrastructure platforms
• Demonstrated self-direction and solution ownership: a proven track record of designing complex systems from scratch, driving them through review, and delivering them in production - end-to-end
• Broad solution development experience - comfortable producing architecture documents, leading development reviews, articulating trade-offs, and building consensus across collaborators before writing a line of code
• AWS - hands-on experience crafting and operating continuous integration and delivery systems on AWS; familiarity with EC2 (including Mac instances), IAM, S3, Auto Scaling, VPC, and cost management
• AI/ML integration experience - practical experience applying AI tools to automate operational decisions such as failure classification, anomaly detection, or intelligent alerting and self-remediation
• Proficiency in Python and GO/Shell for production tooling
• Deep experience with multi-platform build systems (Windows and macOS required; iOS and/or Android a plus)
• Proven ability to establish norms and models that improve team-wide consistency and reduce recurring issues
• Experience mentoring engineers and growing technical capability in others
• Strong debugging instincts across complex, multi-system failures

Preferred

• Experience building AI-driven developer tooling - intelligent triage systems, auto-remediation bots, copilots, or similar
• Familiarity with observability platforms (Splunk, Grafana, CloudWatch, or similar) and using telemetry data to train or prompt AI automation
• Strong understanding of Xcode, the Apple build toolchain, Universal Binary compilation, code signing and notarization
• Knowledge of CI/CD security practices - secrets management, infrastructure hardening, threat modeling

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 position is $159,200 -- $301,600 annually. Pay within this range varies by work location and 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 │ In New York, the pay range for this position is $208,300 - $301,600 │ In Washington, the pay range for this position is $190,200 - $275,400

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.

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California

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