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San Jose, California, United States
Onsite
The AJO Platform Engineer manages the full lifecycle of personalized digital experiences across Adobe surfaces. This includes requirement gathering, backlog management, content authoring, campaign execution, quality validation, production monitoring, and support. The role combines agile delivery with hands-on operational work. It requires close collaboration with Product, Engineering, and Operations teams to reliably deliver and improve digital experiences for millions of global customers.
Key Responsibilities
Partner with PMs and business collaborators to understand and capture requirements, identify scope for relevant squads.
Define and validate personalization logic, audience segmentation, and campaign targeting for accuracy and consistency
Author components and experiences in a headless CMS across multiple Adobe surfaces and customer journeys
Build campaigns to deliver personalized content experiences to a global customer base
Support and optimize controlled experiments and experimentation frameworks, ensuring test integrity and data accuracy
Monitor live campaigns via Splunk; build and maintain dashboards and alerts for rapid issue detection and triage
Serve as a partner concern point for production incidents, owning triage, root cause analysis, and resolution coordination with engineering teams
Collaborate with internal and client teams to resolve complex incidents, document findings, and deliver preventive recommendations
Participate in on-call rotations within defined SLA windows
Maintain runbooks, incident playbooks, test cases, and operational documentation
Contribute to automation initiatives to improve testing efficiency and reduce toil
Required Skills & Experience
Functional
3+ years in JSON scripting, Product Support, QA, or a similar role within digital platforms
Experience with campaign orchestration or experimentation tools (Adobe Target, AJO, Optimizely)
Understanding of personalization, audience segmentation, and A/B testing
Incident management, SLA adherence, and on-call support experience
Technical
Splunk proficiency: dashboards, SQL queries, alert configuration
JSON and REST API validation; Postbuster or Postman
Familiarity with web technologies (HTML, JavaScript)
Preferred Qualifications
Adobe Experience Cloud (AEM, AJO, Adobe Target, Analytics)
Headless CMS architectures and content delivery frameworks
SQL and analytics debugging
Test automation frameworks or scripting
Education
Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field or equivalent practical experience.
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.
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Expected Pay Range:
Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several U.S. geographic markets, and we pay differently based on those defined markets. The U.S. pay range for this position is $82,400 -- $163,900 annually. Pay within this range varies by work location and may also depend on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for the job location during the hiring process.

In California, the pay range for this position is $113,200 - $163,900

At Adobe, for sales roles starting salaries are expressed as total target compensation (TTC = base + commission), and short-term incentives are in the form of sales commission plans. Non-sales roles starting salaries are expressed as base salary and short-term incentives are in the form of the Annual Incentive Plan (AIP).
In addition, certain roles may be eligible for long-term incentives in the form of a new hire equity award.
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California:
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Colorado:
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Massachusetts:
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