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San Jose, CA

Software Development Engineer

No experience
Media & Comms
Software engineering
Posted:
January 7, 2026

Adobe

Creative software and digital media solutions
78.8
Palpable Score
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The 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 a high-performance segmentation engine. Own responsibility for design and implementation of key components

· Develop query compilation algorithms that transform and rewrite segment definition queries

· Develop query optimization and evaluation algorithms including multi-query optimization, incremental evaluation and streaming evaluation

· Build tools to monitor query performance and identify & debug potential semantic errors

· Deploy production services and iteratively improve them based on customer feedback

· Follow Agile methodologies using industry leading CI/CD pipelines

· Participate in architecture, design & code reviews

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

· Experience building a scalable query engine or equivalent practical experience is required. Experience in language design is a plus

· Strong grasp of algorithms and data structures

· Proficiency in Databases or compilers 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.

About the company

Adobe

Company overview
Adobe is a software company best known for Creative Cloud products like Photoshop, Illustrator, and Premiere Pro, plus Document Cloud (Acrobat) and Experience Cloud for marketing, analytics, and commerce. Adobe sells subscriptions to individuals, teams, enterprises, and public-sector organisations. Adobe has also built and marketed generative AI features such as Adobe Firefly across creative workflows. Adobe is headquartered in San Jose, California and operates globally.

Locations and presence

Adobe’s corporate headquarters is in San Jose, and Adobe lists a large network of offices across the US and other countries. For student roles, many 2026 internship postings state a “co-located hybrid” approach, splitting time between an assigned office and home based on team expectations.

Palpable Score

78.8
/ 100
Adobe offers multiple clear entry routes, from internships across functions to university graduate roles, and Adobe backs that up with visible intern programming and a structured hiring-process outline. Pay range visibility is better than many large tech employers, and Adobe Digital Academy publishes unusually specific retention and promotion outcomes. The biggest gap is that Adobe does not publish consistent, company-wide outcomes for internships and new-grad hiring, such as conversion rates and typical time-to-promotion.
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