Jobs / United States / Adobe INC
Senior Software Development Engineer
Adobe INC · 🇺🇸 San Jose
Sponsorship verdict
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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
We are seeking a Mid-to-Senior Network Software Engineer to help design, build, and operate the networking platform that powers large-scale cloud-native infrastructure. This role sits at the intersection of software engineering, platform engineering, distributed systems, cloud networking, and networking infrastructure. You will work on technologies including Kubernetes, Cilium/eBPF, Envoy Proxy, Contour, service mesh, and cloud networking across AWS and Azure. A key part of this role is building and evolving custom networking control planes that translate high-level application and networking intent into dynamic proxy and dataplane configuration. What You Will Do: • Build Network Control Planes: Design, develop, and operate custom Kubernetes-native networking control planes, similar to architectures used by Istio and Contour, that translate declarative APIs and configuration into dynamically programmed data planes. • Program Envoy via xDS: Build and maintain control-plane integrations using Envoy xDS APIs, including LDS, RDS, CDS, and EDS, to dynamically configure listeners, routes, clusters, endpoints, and traffic policies. • Build Cloud-Native Networking Platforms: Design and operate Kubernetes networking capabilities including CNI, network policy, service routing, load balancing, DNS. • Work with Cilium: Deploy, operate, and optimize Cilium-based Kubernetes networking, including network policy and observability • Extend Proxy Capabilities: Develop or integrate Envoy filters, extensions, external authorization, traffic policies, authentication/authorization mechanisms, and other L4/L7 capabilities. • Design Cloud Networking: Work with networking services across AWS and Azure, including VPC/VNet networking, load balancers, NAT, routing, private connectivity. • Build Network Observability: Develop telemetry and troubleshooting capabilities using metrics, logs, tracing, network flows, Hubble, OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, and Grafana. • Drive Reliability at Scale: Participate in architecture reviews, production readiness, incident response, root-cause analysis and reliability improvements for critical networking infrastructure. • Shape Next-Generation Networking: Evaluate emerging technologies including Gateway API, eBPF networking, AI/agent gateways, MCP, Agent-to-Agent (A2A) protocols, and agent/service mesh architectures. • Participate in On-Call Rotation: Participate in the team's on-call rotation to support production networking infrastructure, solve incidents, restore service, and drive root-cause analysis and long-term reliability improvements. What We Are Looking For: • Software Engineering: 4+ years of experience developing production software, infrastructure platforms, networking systems, or distributed systems. • Programming: Strong proficiency in Go and experience with one or more languages such as Python, Rust • Networking Control Planes: Experience building, extending, or maintaining networking control-plane implementations similar to Istio, Contour, Envoy Gateway, or other Envoy/xDS-based platforms. • Kubernetes Networking: Strong understanding of CNI, Services, NetworkPolicy, Ingress, Gateway API, DNS, service discovery, load balancing, and pod networking. • Networking Fundamentals: Knowledge of TCP/IP, UDP, DNS, HTTP/1.1, HTTP/2, HTTP/3/QUIC, gRPC, TLS/mTLS, NAT, routing, and load balancing. • Proxy & Application Networking : Direct involvement in using Envoy Proxy, Contour, Istio, NGINX, HAProxy, or similar L4/L7 proxy technologies. • Linux Networking: Experience fixing network namespaces, routing tables, iptables/nftables, sockets, conntrack, DNS, and packet-level traffic flows. • Cloud Networking: Experience with networking in at least one major cloud platform such as AWS, Azure. • Infrastruct