Principal Computer Scientist (AdCloud)

Key Skills

Apache Hadoop, C Programming, C++, Data science techniques, Java Programming, Machine learning techniques, MapReduce, Python Programming, PyTorch, R Programming, Scala Programming, SQL, TensorFlow

Job Description

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!

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.

The Opportunity

Adobe is an industry leader in digital experiences. We have solutions to empower our enterprises to understand their customers as people – what they want, need, and believe and to leverage insights to help business deliver engaging customer experiences.

Delivering meaningful customer experiences through advertising is critical in today's customer-first world. Adobe's Advertising Cloud is an end-to-end platform to plan, buy, measure, and optimize all programmatic media investments. We make it simple to deliver video, display, and search advertising across any screen in any format. In addition, we enable a single source of truth and single view of your customers via our native integrations with the broader Adobe DX portfolio. Adobe Advertising Cloud is leader in the Ad Tech space and was once again named amongst the Leaders in the 2021 Gartner® Magic Quadrant for Ad Tech.

Building a fault tolerant, ultra-low latency system at very high scale while providing ease and convenience to our enterprise customers is critical to our success. We use big data, open-source technologies, and home-grown solutions to develop various services for Adobe Solutions, Customers and Partners.

We are looking for a seasoned technologist having deep expertise in architecting low-latency services at very high scale. The candidate will join a robust agile team that collaborates and works across all functions of true product development. It’s expected for candidate to be leading from the front while engaging very well with the team and excelling at critical thinking and problem solving.

What you’ll do

• Overall responsibility for the architecture and technology roadmap of Adobe Advertising Cloud
• Lead architecture and technology choices along with implementation strategy for major sub-systems & components of Adobe Advertising Cloud
• Innovate to improve robustness, latencies, and data insights
• Articulate technology roadmap and strategy to cross-functional teams
• Mentor engineers and foster a culture of technical excellence
• Review and provide feedback on architecture, design, and implementation
• Collaborate with other architects across Adobe

What you need to succeed

• PhD/MS/MTech/B.Tech in Computer Science
• 15+ year experience in design, development, and deployment of data-driven, complex distributed systems
• 3+ years as a Lead/Chief Architect
• Expertise in architecting, building, and maintaining ultra-low latency, cost-efficient systems in cloud environments
• AdTech experience at a leading DMP or DSP provider
• Excellent track record in modernizing cloud-based applications using micro services, containers, and serverless architectures
• Experience and working knowledge of AI/ML/ML Ops with respect to building large-scale, data-intensive applications
• Good knowledge of data security and handling PII data and privacy regulation framework like GDPR, CCPA, HIPAA, SOX, etc.
• Strong leadership skills to drive good coding and design practices across multiple engineering teams
• Strong communication skills to present ideas to executive management to drive a long-term technology vision and influence product strategy