Senior Software Development Engineer, SDK & Cloud Data Platform Engineering

Join Adobes mission to transform the future of creativity by building SDKs and platform libraries that power datadriven insights and AIenabled experiences across Creative Cloud. We are seeking a software engineer with strong development and computer science fundamentals and experience contributing to highperformance crossplatform SDKs.

This role is wellsuited for an engineer who enjoys working close to the system: implementing stable APIs managing complexity in large native codebases and enabling product teams through reliable welldesigned shared components. You will work on core SDKs where correctness performance binary compatibility and longterm maintainability matter and where thoughtful design and implementation have broad impact across products.

Adobe values engineers who act with integrity foster inclusive environments and continuously set the standard through highquality engineering practices.

What youll Do

• Contribute to the implementation and evolution of foundational SDKs and libraries used across Adobe products supporting consistent telemetry analytics and AIpowered services.
• Apply computer science principles including algorithms data structures concurrency memory management and system architecture to realworld production systems.
• Use AI tools such as Claude Code Cursor or the latest for goal-focused development. They assist with code generation testing and delivery. Concentrate on expressing concepts developing solutions constraints and outcomes and validating results. Well support your learning!.
• Develop and maintain reference implementations and documentation that help product teams successfully adopt shared platform components.

• Bachelors degree or higher in Computer Science Engineering Mathematics or a related field.
• 3 years of professional experience building productionquality software systems.
• Solid knowledge of C programming or a desire to learn; mobile or web development experience nice to have.
• Handson experience across two or more platforms such as Windows MacOS iOS Android or cloudbased services.
• Experience working in midtolarge codebases where stability performance and careful evolution are important.
• Solid debugging and problemsolving skills in native and multilanguage environments.
• Ability to work effectively in problem spaces that may not always be fully defined with guidance from senior engineers and architects.
• - Strong written and verbal communication skills and the ability to collaborate closely within and across teams.
• - Ability to thrive in a small collaborative highimpact engineering team.

About Adobe

Adobe empowers everyone to create through innovative platforms and tools that unleash creativity productivity and personalized customer experiences. Adobes 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 30000 employees worldwide are creating the future and raising the bar as we drive the next decade of growth. Were 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.

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