Software Development Engineer

JOB LEVEL

P20

EMPLOYEE ROLE

Individual Contributor

About the Team

We're part of Adobe Unified Platform, building the services and applications that let enterprise administrators deploy, govern, and manage Adobe cloud storage — giving them control, visibility, and action over enterprise content for compliance and scale. We make the Adobe content platform enterprise-ready.

What You'll Do

• Design and develop one or more services/components in the platform to a high quality bar
• Own the full project lifecycle: user story, design, development, testing, review, documentation, and maintenance
• Apply AI-assisted engineering tools to accelerate development, testing, and documentation
• Adhere to standard software engineering practices
• Collaborate in a flexible, geographically distributed, and evolving team environment

What You Need to Succeed

• B.Tech/M.Tech in Computer Science with a strong academic record, or equivalent experience
• 2–4 years of back-end software development experience
• Strong data structures, algorithms, and problem-solving skills
• Expertise in Java and related stack (Spring Boot, etc.)
• Proven experience designing, building, and evolving scalable cloud-based services on AWS/Azure
• Self-starter who learns new technologies quickly and adapts to changing requirements
• Good written/verbal communication and team collaboration skills

AI Skills

• Hands-on use of AI coding assistants (e.g., GitHub Copilot, Claude Code, Cursor) for development, code review, and debugging
• Prompt engineering for generating code, tests, or documentation
• Experience integrating LLM APIs or agentic workflows into applications/tooling — a plus
• Judgment on using AI tools responsibly in production code (quality, security, avoiding over-reliance)

Bonus

• Experience with MySQL, Redis, DynamoDB, or Kafka

Internal Opportunities

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