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# Senior Software Development Engineer 5

- **Company:** Adobe Systems
- **Location:** San Jose, CA, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $208,300.0 - $301,600.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Java (Programming Language), Artificial Intelligence, Distributed Systems, Memory Management, Java Virtual Machine (JVM), Software Engineering, Backend, Information Technology
- **Published:** August 10, 2026
- **Apply:** https://adobe.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/external_experienced/job/San-Jose/Senior-Software-Development-Engineer-5_R171007

## About the Role

* B.S. in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent experience, required; M.S. or equivalent practical depth preferred.

 * 8+ years of software engineering experience having built highly maintainable, scalable systems with Scala/Java or comparable, strongly typed language.

 * Deep proficiency in Java or Scala - including the runtime: JVM memory management, GC tuning, thread scheduling, and how allocation patterns affect tail latency at high event rates.

 * Proven ability to reason about system performance at scale - predict where a build breaks under load, profile production systems, and drive optimizations that improve real metrics

 * Ability to multi-task simultaneously different projects, having a positive outlook, motivated learner with strong interpersonal and written and verbal communication skills.

What will help you stand out from the crowd

 * Unending curiosity, thoroughness, tenacity and focus on designing and building complex software systems with excellent quality to address customer problems.

 * Experience developing backend distributed applications on Java/JVM and Spring (or similar framework).

 * Shown experience using structured, focused approaches to solving technical, data, and logical problems.

## Description

AEP is seeking a Software Development Engineer to join the AEP Core Platform team. We build scalable, performant services and tools to handle end-to-end customer lifecycle from building the platform for automated onboarding customers on the platform.

This role requires extensive expertise in high-throughput, low-latency distributed systems. You will manage a wide technical area by driving architectural direction within and across multiple AEP platform teams.

What you will do:

 * Design and develop distributed services that are resilient, highly available, and scalable.

 * Collaborate with business partners, architects, technical leads, product management and analysts to develop high-quality customer centric solutions.

 * Guide multi-functional technical initiatives across related teams, establishing architectural direction for capabilities that cross service boundaries.

 * Own feature development from inception to production rollout and postmortem & contribute to the development of engineering processes.

 * Evaluate innovative technologies and incorporate them, heavily use AI for improved efficiency and iterate faster.


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