Senior Software Development Engineer
Adobe Software
JOB LEVEL
P50ADDITIONAL JOB LEVELS
P55-
EMPLOYEE ROLE
Individual ContributorThe Opportunity
Adobe Experience Platform (AEP) enables businesses to deliver the right experience at the right time to their customers. The Segmentation Service is one of the key AEP services, providing the ability to define customer segments and generate target audiences based on real-time customer profiles. Customer segment definitions are sophisticated queries over profile and event data capturing specific attributes or behaviors shared by a subset of users. With the need to perform trillions of audience segment evaluations per day, scalability and efficiency are paramount in segment evaluation. This is a great opportunity for engineers to solve extremely interesting challenges of scale and build core services that are used by all Adobe Digital Experience solutions. As part of building these services, you will work with an exceptionally talented and collaborative team, tackle complex query evaluation challenges, design & implement innovative algorithms and build highly performant services.
What you'll Do
- Collaborate with a team of engineers & product managers in building high-performance distributed systems to support batch and low latency evaluation modes.
- Own responsibility for design and implementation of key components.
- Extend architecture and implementation to support newer class of segmentation queries.
- Improve performance of systems to scale with evolving workload requirements.
- Deploy production services and iteratively improve them based on customer feedback.
- Follow Agile methodologies using industry leading CI/CD pipelines.
- Participate in entire lifecycle including architecture, design, coding, reviews and validation.
What you need to succeed
- B.S. in Computer Science or a related field is required.
- M.S. in Computer Science or a related field or equivalent practical experience is preferred.
- Practical experience at scale in distributed systems or databases.
- Knowledge and experience in data lakes, data warehouses or Spark is preferred.
- Strong programming skills with extensive experience in Java or Scala.
- Leadership skills to collaborate and drive cross-team efforts.
- Excellent communication skills.
- Adaptable to evolving priorities, accepting challenges outside one's comfort zone, learning new technologies, and delivering viable solutions within defined time boundaries.
- Ability to think through solutions from a short term and long-term lens in an iterative development cycle.
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