Senior Software Development Engineer in Test

Software Development Engineer 3 (SDET)

Join the team building Adobe’s Frame.io platform, powering next-generation video collaboration and media workflows at global scale. This role is centered on quality engineering and product-driven development, where you’ll work closely with product managers, designers, and engineering teams to ensure high-quality, reliable, and scalable systems. You’ll play a key role in shaping not just how systems are built—but how they are validated, tested, and delivered with confidence. You’ll operate in a cloud-native, distributed systems environment, contributing to microservices architectures and modern frontend applications that handle millions of assets and high-throughput workloads. This is a high-impact role for someone who cares deeply about system quality, user experience, and engineering excellence, and wants to influence how products are built end-to-end.

What You’ll Do
• Drive quality engineering practices across the stack, ensuring reliability, scalability, and performance

• Collaborate closely with product managers to translate requirements into robust, testable solutions

• Build and maintain cloud-native microservices using TypeScript/JavaScript and Python (with exposure to Go/Elixir)
• Design and implement automated testing strategies (unit, integration, end-to- end, performance)

• Contribute to API design and validation for distributed systems (REST/GraphQL)
• Work on event-driven architectures and asynchronous systems
• Partner with engineering teams to embed quality throughout the development lifecycle, not just at the end

• Improve observability, monitoring, and debugging capabilities across services
• Participate in design reviews, code reviews, and release processes with a strong focus on quality and maintainability
• Advocate for best practices in testing, reliability, and system design

What You Need to Succeed
1. Core Technical Skills
• 4–8 years of software engineering experience with a strong focus on quality engineering / testable system design
• Strong hands-on experience with:
o TypeScript / JavaScript (Node.js ecosystem)
o Python
o Exposure to Go and/or Elixir is a plus

2.Systems & Architecture
• Experience building and testing microservices-based, distributed systems
• Strong understanding of:
o Cloud-native architectures
o API design (REST/GraphQL)
o Event-driven systems

3. Quality Engineering Focus
• Experience designing and implementing:
o Automated testing frameworks
o Integration and end-to-end testing strategies
o Performance and reliability testing
• Strong focus on code quality, testability, and maintainability
• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and quality gates☁️

4.Cloud & Infrastructure
• Experience with cloud platforms (AWS / Azure / GCP)
• Familiarity with:
o Docker, Kubernetes
o Observability and monitoring tools

5. Collaboration & Product Mindset
• Proven experience working closely with product managers and cross-
functional teams
• Ability to balance product velocity with system quality and reliability
• Strong communication and ownership mindset

6 Engineering Fundamentals
• Solid foundation in data structures, algorithms, and system design
• Strong problem-solving skills and attention to detail

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. 

Let’s Adobe together

At Adobe, we believe in creating a company culture where all employees are empowered to make an impact. Learn more about Adobe life, including our values and culture, focus on people, purpose and community, Adobe for All, comprehensive benefits programs, the stories we tell, the customers we serve, and how you can help us advance our mission of empowering everyone to create.

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Experience Level

Senior Level