Adobe
About the Role
We are looking for a Software Development Engineer (P30) to join our Product & Software Security organization. In this role, you will contribute to building and maintaining the software systems that power Adobe's internal security platform - including inventory collection, cloud data storage, scanning infrastructure, and security tooling. You will work with senior software development engineers and offensive security engineers , growing your skills across backend development, APIs, cloud services, and secure coding practices while delivering real impact on Adobe's security posture.
This is well-suited for engineers who are eager to learn, take ownership of well-defined tasks, and grow in a security-focused engineering environment.
What You'll Do
Development & Engineering
- Write, test, and debug code primarily in Python within established programming standards and architectural patterns, with growing comfort in JavaScript/React.
- Implement backend scripts and automation that support inventory collection, data processing, and scanning workflows.
- Build and maintain REST API integrations and internal tooling, following defined contracts and coding standards.
- Contribute to React-based UIs and internal dashboards that visualize and manage security data.
- Work with Azure services (SQL databases, blob storage, compute) under the guidance of senior engineers write efficient queries and data access patterns.
- Leverage AI-assisted development tools to write, test, and debug code within established programming standards.
- Design and implement AI agent orchestration: prompt engineering, structured output extraction, token budget management, multi-step pipelines with adversarial verification, and reliability on probabilistic outputs (retries, fallbacks, confidence gating).
- Build and operate distributed scanning infrastructure: containerized workloads, job orchestration, ephemeral scan environments, and parallel execution on Kubernetes or ECS.
Software Design & Architecture
- Contribute to design at the component or sub-system level under guidance of senior engineers.
- Design for testability and implement component and end-to-end tests for features you own.
- Apply secure-by-default principles in your implementations, including input validation and safe handling of user-controlled data.
- Participate in code reviews, providing and receiving constructive feedback to improve code quality and consistency.
- Use AI tools to support design tasks within established architectural patterns and defined technical parameters.
Reliability & Operations
- Debug your own code and integration issues within a single domain or technology, escalating cross-system issues as needed.
- Validate the effectiveness of deployed work and monitor for regressions in features you contribute to.
- Contribute to improving build, test, and deployment pipelines by adopting team standards for CI/CD practices.
Collaboration & Learning
- Collaborate with team members and cross-functional partners (Product Management, Infrastructure, SRE) to understand requirements and deliver on sprint goals.
- Actively learn and adopt best practices around prompting, design, testing, and verification.
- Share knowledge within the team and seek out opportunities for growth in new technologies and techniques relevant to security engineering.
- Contribute as a strong team player, balancing team goals with personal development objectives.
Qualifications
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field (or equivalent experience).
- 3-8 years of software development experience, with meaningful contributions to backend systems, APIs, or automation projects.
- Solid foundation in Python (scripts, services, automation) ability to write clean, testable code and debug your own implementations.
- Basic familiarity with REST API concepts, HTTP fundamentals, and working with relational databases.
- Comfort with version control (Git), code reviews, and collaborative development workflows.
- Strong willingness to learn, ask questions, and grow in a fast-paced engineering environment.
Preferred
- Exposure to JavaScript/React for frontend or tooling development.
- Hands-on experience with any major cloud platform (Azure, AWS, or GCP), even in a coursework or personal project context.
- Awareness of secure coding practices and interest in the application security or product security domain.
- Familiarity with CI/CD concepts and automated testing practices.
- Experience using or experimenting with AI-assisted development tools (e.g., GitHub Copilot, Claude) in a development workflow.
- Contributions to open-source projects or technical blog posts demonstrating curiosity and initiative.
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.
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