Adobe

Senior Software Development Engineer - Developer Productivity

San Jose, USA · Senior

Sponsorship not specified$159k-$302kDetected 9 hours ago

PythonGoiOSAndroidExpressAWSCloud PlatformsCI/CDGrafanaMachine LearningLLMsCybersecurityPhotoshopMentoring

About the role

You will establish the AI Factory automation patterns and infrastructure that permit the team to prioritize strategic improvements and non-automatable maintenance.
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.

A core mandate of this role is to use automation to reduce the reactive support burden on the team.
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.
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.
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
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.

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
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

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

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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 - $301,600In New York, the pay range for this position is $208,300 - $301,600In 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.

Replace manual log triage with self-healing pipeline components, including flaky test detection, predictive build health, and automated failure classification.
In addition, certain roles may be eligible for long-term incentives in the form of a new hire equity award.

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.
We are looking for a senior Software Developer to own and advance our CI/CD and AI Factory automation infrastructure.

This listing is sourced directly from Adobe's careers page and normalized into a canonical job model.