Senior Backend Engineer Inference

What you’ll do

• Design and lead the technical development of the Firefly service and its components
• Optimize services to address high performance, latency, and load requirements
• Understand the service requirements and technical constraints of various platforms and come up with solutions to simplify the software stack
• Develop efficient, reliable, testable services code in a variety of stacks (Python, Go)
• Work closely with engineers on the team to guide the development process from requirements and design through development, integration, testing, and deployment
• Work with other Adobe teams advising on using our technology, investigating bugs, and collaborating on providing new features
• Regularly review and tune test code to achieve a high standard of software quality, code coverage, and performance metrics
• Respond to urgent production issues requiring fast resolution and deployment of code fixes/updates
• Participate in inventing technology that has an enormous impact across Adobe, writing patents, and being an active internal community of software development professionals

• Bachelor of Science, or higher degree, in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics or equivalent
• 10+ years of experience with server-side/backend service development
• Proficiency with Python
• Be able to take ownership of complex projects and provide end-to-end engineering solutions: from architecture design to implementation and production support
• Must be well versed with distributed computing principles, proven experience building reliable high performance cloud platforms and services.
• In-depth knowledge of containerization and modern deployment strategies (k8s)
• Proficient in services frameworks, deployment, and monitoring tools
• Firm computer science fundamentals, including design patterns, algorithms, asymptotic complexity, parallelism, and database schema design
• Works well in a small, collaborative, highly productive team environment across multiple geographies
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills

• Experience with GPU-based ML inference services

The U.S. pay range for this position is $172,500 – $306,625 annually. The range may vary by location and job‑related experience. In California, the pay range is $211,800 – $306,625.

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