Senior Software Engineer - Backend

About The Role

We are seeking a highly motivated Senior Software Engineer to join the new Project Graph services team at 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. The services team focuses on developing HTTP APIs for managing Graph plugins, their versioning, publishing, access control and search, and an async compute platform for running Graphs on the cloud. In this backend‑focused role, you will play a key role in developing HTTP APIs, working closely with cluster orchestrators like Kubernetes, and building on top of AWS cloud infrastructure.

• Collaboratively write scalable, resilient HTTP APIs for Project Graph
• Contribute to an async job scheduling system built on top of Kubernetes and Postgres
• Design and implement cloud infrastructure to meet reliability, performance and cost goals

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience in Computer Science
• 5-10 years of backend software development experience
• Strong hands‑on experience in any server‑side language; we use Node.js/Typescript
• Expertise with Kubernetes
• Experience with Postgres, Redis, or other data stores
• Experience with Terraform and AWS
• Experience with bash and CI/CD tools, like CircleCI
• Expertise in HTTP API security
• An interest in and ability to learn new technologies
• Ability to tackle problems in a sustainable way, always striving to improve our processes and learn
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills; can effectively articulate complex ideas and influence others through well‑reasoned explanations

The U.S. pay range for this position is $159,200 – $301,600 annually. In California, the pay range is $208,300 – $301,600.

Adobe is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity 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 protected characteristic.

California: Adobe will consider qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records for employment in accordance with state and local laws and “fair chance” ordinances.

Colorado: If this role is open to hiring in Colorado, the application window will remain open until at least the date and time stated above in Pacific Time, in compliance with Colorado pay transparency regulations.

Massachusetts: It is unlawful in Massachusetts to require or administer a lie detector test as a condition of employment or continued employment.