Sr. Java Engineer in SRE

Our Company

Changing the world through digital experiences is what Adobe’s all about. We give everyone—from emerging artists to global brands—everything they need to design and deliver exceptional digital experiences! We’re passionate about empowering people to create beautiful and powerful images, videos, and apps, and transform how companies interact with customers across every screen. 

We’re on a mission to hire the very best and are committed to creating exceptional employee experiences where everyone is respected and has access to equal opportunity. We realize that new ideas can come from everywhere in the organization, and we know the next big idea could be yours!

The Opportunity

As a Software Engineer at Adobe Workfront, you will work with your Engineering team and partner with Product Management to take ideas for Workfront’s products and turn them into realized features in our Work Automation Cloud platform in an Agile environment, estimate assigned work, create OO designs, provide task breakdowns and implement features and micro-services.

As a Senior Software Engineer, you are more than just a coder. In addition to your software engineering responsibilities, you are also expected to guide a small to medium-sized team to deliver in a product area by helping identify dependencies and risks for the group, being a planning consultant to the project managers, recommending improvements to our engineering practices and helping other specialists become more proficient in solving specific problems.

What you'll do

• Create new features using our development technologies that will delight and inspire marketers, IT professionals, and other knowledge workers worldwide.
• Create engineering designs that tackle problems.
• Fix occasional bugs in our SaaS platform.
• Debate the efficient design of an ideal user experience for various unrealized features identified by our Product friends or propose some ideas of your own!
• Keep the quality of the product high and find the best way to test your work to ensure that not only does it work as advertised but will continue to work and perform at a mass scale when thousands upon thousands of people are using it at the same time.
• Lead discussions with what emerging tools, technologies and processes are coming that may impact how we improve our products and SaaS platform in the future.
• Provide your well-considered opinions to the creation and modification of our technology roadmaps.

What you need to succeed

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or equivalent education or work experience.
• 5+ years of programming experience with 3+ years of recent experience in Java.
• Demonstrate sound knowledge of other technologies in use at Workfront (Kubernetes, Python, Spring, Docker, AWS, GCP, etc.).
• Experience with data technologies (RDBMS, NoSQL, Kafka, ElasticSearch).
• Be able to speak to a time when you could dive into someone else’s code and make an optimization to it without rewriting the whole thing.
• Ability to describe concepts and whiteboard designs dealing with high-availability
• Experience researching solutions to problems and pitching your ideas to senior team members.
• Ability to demonstrate a high level of ownership for the entire SDLC, including QA, build, deployment, and support of production systems.
• Have outstanding experience in real-time or massively distributed systems, public cloud or PaaS systems like AWS, GCP, or Azure, databases։

At Adobe, you will be immersed in an exceptional work environment that is recognized worldwide on Best Companies lists. You will also be surrounded by colleagues committed to helping each other grow through our unique Check-In approach, where ongoing feedback flows freely.

Adobe is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity and affirmative action employer. We do not discriminate based on gender, race or color, ethnicity or national origin, age, disability, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, veteran status, or any other applicable characteristics protected by law. Learn more.
 

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