Senior Platform Engineer – Developer Experience

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!

 

We’re seeking a Senior Platform Engineer who is passionate about elevating engineering practices and enabling teams to build software faster, more reliably, and with higher confidence. This role is focused on improving the Developer Experience (DevX) across a broad ecosystem of applications — including Windows, macOS, Linux, iOS, Android, and Web.

You’ll work closely with multiple engineering teams, establishing technical standards, delivering scalable tooling, and building systems that support modern development workflows. Your deep knowledge of build infrastructure, compilers, dependency management, and code quality will help reduce friction and improve the overall velocity and quality of software delivery.

This is a strategic, high-impact role that sits at the heart of engineering productivity within Photoshop — perfect for someone who enjoys solving foundational problems at scale and collaborating across the organization.

This is more than just a tooling role — it’s a chance to shape how engineering happens across the organization. You’ll be a force multiplier for dozens of teams, enabling them to build better, faster, and with more joy. If you thrive on cross-functional collaboration and believe that strong systems make strong engineers, we’d love to hear from you.

What You'll Do:

• Lead platform engineering efforts to support a diverse suite of products across desktop, mobile, and web.

• Architect and maintain build systems and toolchains, including compilers, linkers, and related infrastructure optimized for speed and scalability.

• Drive build optimization and local development workflow improvements, reducing latency in the software development lifecycle.

• Establish and enforce best practices for dependency management, code hygiene, and software supply chain protection.

• Build scalable internal tooling and automation that simplifies and standardizes development across multiple teams and platforms.

• Partner with engineering teams to identify friction in the development process and deliver solutions that increase efficiency and consistency.

• Promote a data-driven culture by integrating observability and telemetry into build systems and tooling.

• Implement developer self-service capabilities to streamline onboarding, testing, environment setup, and release workflows.

• Stay on top of industry trends in DevX, platform engineering, and developer tooling, introducing best-in-class solutions when appropriate.

What You'll Need to Succeed:

• 7+ years of experience in software engineering, internal tooling, platform engineering, or developer productivity roles.

• Proven expertise across multi-platform application development, including Windows, macOS, Linux, iOS, Android, and web environments.

• Strong knowledge of compilers, linkers, and modern build systems like CMake, Bazel, or Buck.

• Hands-on experience with CI/CD systems such as GitHub Actions, Jenkins, or GitLab CI/CD, with a focus on performance, maintainability, and reliability.

• Familiarity with static analysis, test frameworks, and code quality automation.

• Experience with dependency management and securing the software supply chain (e.g., SBOMs, artifact validation).

• Proficient in systems programming and scripting languages, including C++ and Python.

• Effective communicator who can collaborate across engineering, infrastructure, and product teams.

• Strong systems thinking, problem-solving ability, and a mindset centered on developer empathy and enablement.

• Experience with DevOps practices and infrastructure automation (e.g., Terraform, Docker, Kubernetes).

• Familiarity with cloud-native development environments and Infrastructure as Code (IaC).

• Interest or experience in using GenAI to automate development or DevX-related tasks.

• Prior involvement with developer platform or engineering productivity teams.

Application Window Notice

If this role is open to hiring in Colorado (as listed on the job posting), the application window will remain open until at least 12:01 AM Pacific Time, in compliance with Colorado pay transparency regulations. If this role does not have Colorado listed as a hiring location, no specific application window applies, and the posting may close at any time based on hiring needs.

Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several  U.S. geographic markets, and we pay differently based on those defined markets. The U.S. pay range for this position is $153,600 -- $286,600 annually. Pay within this range varies by work location and may also depend on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for the job location during the hiring process.

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In addition, certain roles may be eligible for long-term incentives in the form of a new hire equity award.

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