Senior Computer Scientist - Developer Experience

The Opportunity

Adobe empowers everyone, everywhere to imagine, create, and bring any digital experience to life. The Horizon Platform team enables the foundation for Adobe's web-based creative applications. Our mission is to enable Adobe engineers to build high-performance, scalable, AI-powered experiences - faster and with greater confidence.

The Developer Experience (DevX) team treats developers as our customers. We focus on engineering productivity, intelligent tooling, platform reliability, and frictionless workflows. We believe the best products are built when engineers can move quickly, safely, and creatively.

We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer who is passionate about building AI-enabled development systems, modern web infrastructure, and high-performance tooling that empowers thousands of engineers across Adobe.

If you are excited about combining AI, platform engineering, and developer productivity at scale - we'd love to talk.

What You'll Do

• Build and evolve the platform foundation for Adobe web applications

• Design intelligent developer tooling and workflows that leverage automation and AI to improve productivity, code quality, and velocity.

• Improve build systems, CI/CD pipelines, monorepo strategy, and test automation frameworks to support large-scale engineering teams.

• Partner with product engineering teams to deeply understand their workflows and remove friction.

• Develop high-performance, reliable, well-tested, and well-documented platform code.

• Introduce automation and AI-assisted development capabilities that enhance code generation, testing, debugging, and performance optimization.

• Proactively identify productivity bottlenecks and lead initiatives that measurably improve engineering velocity and platform reliability.

• Mentor engineers and elevate engineering standards across the organization.

• Foster an inclusive, collaborative environment that values diverse perspectives and continuous learning.

What You'll Bring

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent practical experience.

• 10+ years of software engineering experience.

• Deep understanding of data structures, algorithms, and systems design.

• Strong experience building scalable web platforms or developer tooling.

• Practical use of AI within the Software Development Lifecycle

• Expertise in performance optimization, debugging, and reliability engineering.

• Experience designing or improving CI/CD systems, monorepos, build tooling, or test automation frameworks.

• Familiarity with core AI fundamentals, including machine learning concepts, LLM capabilities and limitations, and practical considerations for integrating AI into production systems

• Strong ability to work across distributed teams and influence without authority.

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience building or integrating AI-powered systems that augment the software development lifecycle - including intelligent code review, code generation, automated testing, debugging assistants, static analysis, or refactoring agents.

• Familiarity with Agentic AI LLM systems, RAG architectures, vector databases, and contextual memory systems.

• Experience with C++, TypeScript, JavaScript, or Python.

• Experience with large-scale monorepo environments.

• Familiarity with modern web test automation frameworks.

• Experience improving engineering productivity at scale (metrics-driven DevEx initiatives).

What Sets You Apart

• You are curious about how AI and agentic systems can transform the way software is built and are excited to experiment responsibly with intelligent tooling that augments developer productivity.

• You operate at both the code level and the architecture level.

• You treat developers as customers and measure success through productivity gains.

• You proactively identify problems and drive them to completion.

• You raise the engineering bar while uplifting the people around you.

• You are curious about AI's role in transforming how software is built.

Why Join Us

You will help define how AI and intelligent tooling reshape the way Adobe engineers build creative software. Your work will directly impact the velocity, reliability, and innovation capacity of Creative Cloud's web platform.

This role is based in San Jose (Bay Area). Remote candidates will be considered for the right fit.

About Adobe

Adobe empowers everyone to create through innovative platforms and tools that unleash creativity, productivity and personalized customer experiences. Adobe's industry-leading offerings including Adobe Acrobat Studio, Adobe Express, Adobe Firefly, Creative Cloud, Adobe Experience Platform, Adobe Experience Manager, and GenStudio enable people and businesses to turn ideas into impact, powered by AI and driven by human ingenuity.

Our 30,000+ employees worldwide are creating the future and raising the bar as we drive the next decade of growth. We're on a mission to hire the very best and believe in creating a company culture where all employees are empowered to make an impact. At Adobe, we believe that great ideas can come from anywhere in the organization. The next big idea could be yours.

Let's Adobe together

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Expected Pay Range:

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