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Sr DevOps Engineer
Adobe INC · 🇺🇸 San Jose
Sponsorship verdict
Sponsorship possible
One solid signal, not two — worth applying, and worth asking about sponsorship early.
- Employer is on a government sponsor recordThe US Department of Labor certified 1,036 H-1B/E-3 labor condition applications for this employer between Oct 2025 and Jun 2026 (latest Jun 2026) — the step every H-1B hire needs first. USCIS also records 221 H-1B approvals in FY2023. Source: LCA disclosure data (US Department of Labor (OFLC)).
- The posting doesn’t mention sponsorshipSilence isn’t a refusal — ask the recruiter before investing much time.
- No salary bar for this routeH-1B has no fixed salary bar: the employer must pay at least the prevailing wage for the role and area. Cap-subject employers enter a lottery weighted by wage level. Source: https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/12/29/2025-23853/weighted-selection-process-for-registrants-and-petitioners-seeking-to-file-cap-subject-h-1b, rules effective 2026-02-27.
- What Adobe INC paid sponsored hires in similar roles348 certified filings for “Software Development Engineer” (Software Developers) in CA: $174k–$227k, median $193k. Most were filed at wage level II (46%) — 2 lottery entries, ≈31% projected selection odds for cap-subject employers. Source: US Department of Labor LCA disclosure data (Oct 2025 – Jun 2026).
- Confirmed live todayWhen a source last listed this job as open.
US H-1B: cap-subject employers enter a lottery weighted by wage level — Level I gets 1 entry, Level IV gets 4 (DHS projected selection odds ≈15% at Level I to ≈61% at Level IV). Universities and non-profit research employers are cap-exempt. The $100,000 fee for new petitions from abroad is currently blocked by a court order (appeal pending).
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The US Department of Labor certified 1,036 H-1B/E-3 labor condition applications for this employer between Oct 2025 and Jun 2026 (latest Jun 2026) — the step every H-1B hire needs first. USCIS also records 221 H-1B approvals in FY2023. Source: LCA disclosure data (US Department of Labor (OFLC)).
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About the role
Adobe’s mission is to change the world through digital experiences. Adobe is maker of best-in-class applications for creative professionals, such as Photoshop, Lightroom, and Illustrator, or perhaps one thinks of PDF, which changed the face of how documents are created, published, and shared. Adobe Products are also used widely by enterprises to power their web sites and create many of the digital experiences that one enjoy every day through multiple devices. Search and Discovery platform enables users to simplify and accelerate their creative journey across the Adobe ecosystem by helping them discover assets and ingredients via search, browse, recommendation and assistive experiences across Adobe ecosystem. Content Processing Platform is machine learning platform, part of Adobe Sensei, that powers Machine Learning and AI across Adobe cloud Product lines by catering inference and training needs of thousands of applied researchers, millions of users and billions of content pieces. It is a platform with the mission to democratize Artificial Intelligence first product from concept to delivery. Become part of this growing team at Adobe SDC Org and building these platforms to make an extra ordinary impact in the areas of computer vision, user understanding, language understanding, and digital experience optimization. We match the pace, innovation, and excitement of a startup, backed by the resources and infrastructure of Adobe! How can you participate? In this bold venture, we seek a Senior Devops Engineer to build, redesign, and manage a large, globally distributed infrastructure using modern Reliability Engineering and DevOps methods. Key Responsibilities: • Work at the intersection of engineering and operations of Search & Sensei products at Adobe. • Work on large scale search index setup, setting up real-time messaging & data ingestion platforms, NO-SQL databases, web services & orchestration services and more. • Work on setting up cloud based technologies to enable Search & Sensei platform at Adobe. • Maintain and optimize search engine, identify new ideas to evolve it, develop new features and benchmark possible solutions, in terms of performance and feasibility. • Develop Search & Sensei employing technologies such as Elastic Search, Kafka, Docker, Kubernetes, Hadoop, HBase, Apache Spark, MongoDB, Caching Solutions, Web services, NO-SQL technologies, Terraform, Jenkins and more. • Work closely with other engineering team members to help support product development needs. • Work on crafting and building highly available and scalable infrastructure solutions. Roll out security features in the cloud. Architect and optimize infrastructure costs. Bring top distributed systems and DevOps methods into Adobe Search & Sensei World. The goal is that this team provides one click set up from all the development of existing and newer projects. This role is not looking for candidates that have worked on release engineering only. What one need to succeed: • B.S. in Engineering or equivalent experience • 3-7 years of meaningful experience in industry • Experience in building, deploying and managing infrastructures in public clouds (AWS, Azure) • Excellent programming (Perl/Python/Ruby/Shell/Go/Java) and automation skills • Exposure to set up large scale databases, performance tuning • Experience in operating and scaling various NO-SQL technologies such as Elastic Search, Kafka, HBase, MongoDB, Apache Spark, etc. • Exposure to of Linux/Unix System Administration experience • Experience with Git, Perforce, and Jenkins, exposure to cloud/virtualization technologies • Good knowledge of Cloud well architected frameworks, cloud build principals About Adobe Adobe empowers everyone to create through innovative platforms and tool