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# Lead Software Engineer - Backend

- **Company:** Adobe Inc.
- **Location:** San Francisco, CA, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $228,600.0 - $331,050.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Adobe Photoshop, Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Artificial Intelligence, Amazon Web Services, Computing Platforms, Cloud Computing, Data Stores, Job Scheduling, PostgreSQL, Redis, TypeScript, Management of Software Versions, Backend, Adobe, Kubernetes
- **Published:** August 5, 2026
- **Apply:** https://jobs.localjobnetwork.com/apply/add/87402647/1

## About the Role

* Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience inComputerScience.

 * 5-10years ofbackendsoftware development experience.

 * Strong hands-on experienceinanyserver-side language; we useNode.js/Typescript.

 * Expertisewith Kubernetes.

 * Experience with Postgres, Redis, or other data stores.

 * Experience withTerraform and AWS.

 * Experience withbash andCI/CDtools,likeCircleCI.

 * Expertisein HTTPAPIsecurity

 * An interest in and ability to learnnew technologies.

 * Ability to tackle problems in a sustainable way, always striving to improveourprocessesand learn.

 * Excellent verbal and written communicationskills;can effectively articulate complex ideas and influence others through well-reasoned explanations.

## Description

We areseekinga highly motivatedSenior Software Engineerto join the newProject Graphservicesteamat Adobe.

Project Graph is a new creative system that lets you combine first and third-party AI models, Adobe tools, and custom interactive components inside a visual, designer-friendly node graph editor. Connect a library of tactile, interactive components that bring creative control of AI back to your fingertips. Transform ideas into powerful workflows and modular tools that run anywhere, from the web to Adobe apps like Photoshop. And ifyou'drather focus on creating than building, you can tap into a growing ecosystem of community-built tools without ever opening the editor.

The services team focuses on developingHTTPAPIs fortwo primaryuses:(1)managing Graphplugins, their versioning, publishing, accesscontroland search, (2)async compute platform for running Graphs on the cloud.

In thisbackend-focusedrole,you will play a keyroleindevelopingHTTP APIs, working closely with cluster orchestrators like Kubernetes, and building on top of AWS cloud infrastructure.

Whatyou'lldo:

 * Collaborativelywritescalable, resilientHTTPAPIsfor Project Graph

 * Contribute to anasync job scheduling systembuilt on top of Kubernetes and Postgres

 * Design and implement cloud infrastructure to meet reliability,performanceand cost goals


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