Adobe
Senior Backend Engineer – Cloud Platform
$139K–$258K
San Jose · Senior · Full-time · Posted Sep 18, 2026
- Experience
- 5-10 years, or equivalent.
- Education
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent.
About the job
Develops and maintains cloud-connected backend systems and internal tools, including APIs, while improving deployment, monitoring, and team engineering practices.
What you'll do
- Build and maintain backend systems that connect to cloud providers and internal or external services; implement and improve APIs.
- Collaborate on Agile development and optimize internal-facing tools; apply DevOps practices to deployment and monitoring.
- Mentor junior engineers and build scalable solutions using Java and cloud development.
What they ask for
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent.
- Proven expertise in Java development.
- Extensive experience with cloud APIs, such as AWS or Azure Java SDK, building and managing complete applications.
- Extensive DevOps experience and detailed understanding of deployment and monitoring for cloud-native software; AI-first development experience.
Nice to have
- Experience with Chef, API development, or Python development.
- Experience deploying microservices with Docker and Kubernetes; front-end development and familiarity with Adobe AEM.
Pay
$139,000 - $257,550 annually (base salary); $177,900 - $257,550 (base salary)
Tools
Java, Azure, AWS, GCP, AWS Java SDK, Azure Java SDK, Chef, Python
AI focus
Requires AI-first development experience; the posting also describes Adobe’s offerings as powered by AI.
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