Senior Software Engineer

Adobe; San Jose (CA); On-site; USD 170,000 - 320,000; Full time

Job summary

Adobe is seeking a senior data engineer to work on the Adobe Experience Platform, focusing on building robust data ingestion pipelines for managing large volumes of customer data. Candidates with over 15 years of experience will have the opportunity to tackle complex engineering challenges in a collaborative environment and make a profound impact on Adobe's digital solutions.

Benefits

Competitive salary and benefits

Ongoing learning and development opportunities

Diverse and inclusive workplace

Flexible working conditions

Qualifications

• 15+ years of industry experience required.
• Practical experience in building resilient data pipelines at scale preferred.
• Strong programming skills with extensive experience in Java or Scala.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with engineers & product managers in building data ingestion pipelines.
• Design and implement key components of ingesting Profile data.
• Deploy production services and improve based on customer feedback.

Skills

Programming skills

Leadership

Communication

Adaptability

Education

M.S. in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Apache Spark

Hadoop Stack

Apache Kafka

Azure Data Lake Storage

AWS S3

Apache Parquet

NoSQL databases

Job description

JOB LEVEL

P55

ADDITIONAL JOB LEVELS

M40

-

P50

EMPLOYEE ROLE

Individual Contributor

The Opportunity

Adobe Experience Platform (AEP) enables businesses to deliver the right experience at the right time to their customers. The Profile Stores layer is one of the key AEP services built as a multi-cloud multi-tenant service to support 1000s of customers, providing the ability to manage a high volume data pipeline and storage layer for real-time customer profiles.

Customer profiles are built on complex data models spanning both record structures supporting upserts at scale as well as timeseries analytics event like data that is ingested at very high volumes. With the need to support to support 1000s of customers ingesting and storing PBs of data, resiliency, data correctness, scalability and efficiency are paramount. This is a great opportunity for engineers to solve extremely interesting challenges of scale and build core services that are used by all Adobe Digital Experience solutions. As part of building these services, you will work with an exceptionally talented and collaborative team, tackle complex data challenges and build highly performant services on various open-source technologies.

***This role is senior in scope and is best suited for candidates with 15+ years of industry background.

What you'll Do

• Collaborate with a team of engineers & product managers in building high-performance data ingestion pipelines and data store to serve the use cases of Segmentation and Activation.
• Own responsibility for design and implementation of key components of ingesting and maintaining petabyte of Profile data
• Develop systems to support high volume data ingestion pipelines handling both streaming and batch processing.
• Leverage popular file and table formats to design storage models to support the required ingestion volumes and data access patterns.
• Explore tradeoffs across different formats and schema layouts driven by workload and application characteristics
• Deploy production services and iteratively improve them based on customer feedback
• Follow Agile methodologies using industry leading CI/CD pipelines
• Participate in architecture, design & code reviews

What you need to succeed

• M.S. in Computer Science or a related field or equivalent experiences required
• Experience with Distributed processing systems like Apache Spark, Hadoop Stack, or Apache Kafka;
• Experience with Data Lake cloud storages like Azure Data Lake Storage or AWS (Amazon Web Services) S3
• Understanding of file formats like Apache Parquet and table formats such as Databricks Delta, Apache Iceberg or Apache Hudi is preferred.
• Understanding of NoSQL databaseslike Apache HBase, Cassandra, Mongo, or Azure Cosmos DB is a plus;
• Practical experience in building resilient data pipelines at scale is preferred
• Strong programming skills with extensive experience in Java or Scala
• Leadership skills to collaborate and drive cross-team efforts
• Excellent communication skills
• Adaptable to evolving priorities, accepting challenges outside one's comfort zone,
  learning new technologies, and delivering viable solutions within defined time
  boundaries.
• Ability to think through solutions from a short term and long-term lens in an iterative development cycle.

Application Window Notice

There is no deadline to apply to this job posting because Adobe accepts applications for this role on an ongoing basis. The posting will remain open based on hiring needs and position availability.

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 $170,500 -- $320,000 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.

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