Senior Software Development Engineer - AEM

The Opportunity
Adobe is the leader in Experience Management, and Adobe Experience Manager (AEM) helps customers design, manage, and deliver high-quality digital experiences at scale.

About the Team
The Cloud Persistence team, part of the Cloud Foundation group, delivers the mission-critical storage layer for AEM Cloud Service. We make sure content is always consistent, durable, and lightning-fast to access—so our customers can create and deliver personalized, high-quality experiences without a hitch.
We operate at serious scale, managing thousands of databases and storage accounts holding terabytes of content. We like solving big problems, we like doing it together, and we’re growing fast.

What You’ll Do

• Own the development and operation of core storage components
• Scale our persistence layer to support a growing global customer base
• Solve complex distributed systems and scalability challenges
• Work closely with product managers and other teams to turn business needs into elegant technical solutions

What You Need to Succeed

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science (or equivalent)
• 5+ years of software engineering experience
• Strong Java and JVM knowledge (GC, concurrency, memory management)
• Solid database skills—both SQL and NoSQL (MongoDB, Azure Blob Storage a plus)
• Experience with Kubernetes and a major cloud provider (Azure or AWS)
• Understanding of programming best practices and design patterns
• Curiosity, willingness to learn, and a collaborative mindset—because we win as a team

Why Adobe

At Adobe, you’ll join a workplace recognized worldwide for its culture and values. We believe feedback should be ongoing, ideas can come from anywhere, and the best results happen when we work together. If you want to solve hard problems, grow your skills, and make an impact—this is your place.
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Adobe is an equal opportunity employer. We hire great people of all backgrounds and identities, knowing that diversity makes us stronger.

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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