Senior Forward Deployed Engineer

Adobe, San Jose

The role

Adobe Experience Platform powers real-time customer experiences for the world’s largest enterprises — unifying data, resolving identity at scale, orchestrating journeys, and activating audiences across every channel. Behind these capabilities are engineering teams that must understand both the platform’s architecture and the regulated, complex environments where customers operate.

The Forward Deployed Engineer role sits at the intersection of solution architecture, technical consulting, and hands-on engineering. You will be embedded with Adobe’s most strategic customers — working directly with their teams to solve complex platform challenges, design scalable architectures, and build what’s needed to unblock adoption and expansion.

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Senior Forward Deployed Engineer

Adobe, San Jose

Posted pay

$159K–$302K

a year

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This base pay is above the median for senior software engineering jobs in the Bay Area.

Median: $209K a year
Other jobs in the group: 1,274

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Location: San Jose
Work type: Not given
Level: Senior
Experience: 8+ years
Skills in the job text: AWS
Azure
Posted: Oct 5, 2026
Last check: 2 h ago
Job type: Software engineering

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With posted pay: 68%
Median posted base: $148K–$282K

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The role

We hire for demonstrated impact, not credential accumulation. Strong candidates will show

Software Development Acumen – You write code, build prototypes, and ship working software. Your architectures are grounded in implementation reality because you’ve built them yourself.
Customer Empathy – You connect with customers on their terms — understanding their pressures, constraints, and definitions of success. Trust is earned through empathy, not just expertise.
Collaborative Engagement – You engage cross-functionally with ease, aligning engineers, architects, product managers, and executive stakeholders around shared outcomes.
Communication – You communicate complex technical concepts clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences — in workshops, written architecture reviews, and executive briefings.
Business Acumen – You translate business goals into solution design. You understand the use case before reaching for the technology, and your architectures reflect that order of operations.
Cross-Product Architecture — You design end-to-end solutions across multiple products and systems — not just individual components. Your architectures hold up under integration, scale, and production conditions.
Data Modeling – You understand how data is structured, modeled, and moved. You can evaluate trade-offs in schema design, identity resolution, and data pipeline architecture.
Growth Mindset & AI Fluency – You actively build toward agentic capabilities and adopt AI-assisted development tools (Claude Code, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, or equivalent) as a standard part of how you design, prototype, and deliver.
Bias Toward Action – You identify problems before they are assigned and drive them to resolution. You don’t wait for permission to move.

Typical background: 8–15+ years across solution architecture, software engineering, technical consulting, or customer-facing engineering roles. Masters or bachelor’s in computer science or any relevant field. What matters is what that experience has produced — not the title or the number of years.

Senior Forward Deployed Engineer

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Senior Forward Deployed Engineer

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