Sr. Computer Scientist-I

Our Company

Changing the world through digital experiences is what Adobe’s all about. We give everyone—from emerging artists to global brands—everything they need to design and deliver exceptional digital experiences! We’re passionate about empowering people to create beautiful and powerful images, videos, and apps, and transform how companies interact with customers across every screen. 

We’re on a mission to hire the very best and are committed to creating exceptional employee experiences where everyone is respected and has access to equal opportunity. We realize that new ideas can come from everywhere in the organization, and we know the next big idea could be yours!

The Opportunity

Our engineering team develops the Adobe Experience Platform, offering innovative data management and analytics.

Developing a reliable, resilient system at large scale is crucial. We use Big Data and open-source tech for Adobe's services.

Our support for large enterprise products spans across geographies, requiring us to manage disparate data sources and ingestion mechanisms. The data must be easily accessible at very low latency to support various scenarios and use cases. We seek candidates with deep expertise in building low latency services at high scales who can lead us in accomplishing our vision.

What you will need to succeed

• 8+ years in design and development of data-driven large distributed systems

• 3+ years as an architect building large-scale data-intensive distributed systems and services

• Relevant experience building application layers on top of Apache Spark

• Strong experience with Hive SQL and Presto DB

• Experience leading architecture designs to approval while collaborating with multiple collaborators, dependencies, and internal/external customer requirements

• In-depth work experience with open-source technologies like Apache Kafka, Apache Spark, Kubernetes, etc.

• Experience with big data technologies on public clouds such as Azure, AWS, or Google Cloud Platform

• Experience with in-memory distributed caches like Redis, Memcached, etc.

• Strong coding (design patterns) and design proficiencies setting examples for others; contributions to open source are highly desirable

• Proficiency in data structures and algorithms

• Cost consciousness around computation and memory requirements

• Strong verbal and written communication skills

• BTech/MTech/MS in Computer Science

What you'll do

• Lead the technical design and implementation strategy for major systems and components of the Adobe Experience Platform

• Evaluate and drive the architecture and technology choices for major systems/components

• Design, build, and deploy products with outstanding quality

• Innovate the current system to improve robustness, ease, and convenience

• Articulate design and code choices to cross-functional teams

• Mentor and guide a high-performing team

• Review and provide feedback on features, technology, architecture, design, time & budget estimates, and test strategies

• Engage in creative problem-solving

• Develop and evolve engineering standard methodologies to improve the team’s efficiency

• Partner with other teams across Adobe to achieve common goals

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