Software Engineer – Adobe Experience Platform

Adobe

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Work type: On-site
Location: San Jose
Salary: $177,900–$257,550 / yr
Posted: 82 days ago

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This role $218k

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Adobe Inc. is a global software company known for creative and multimedia software products including Photoshop, Illustrator, Acrobat, and its cloud-based Creative Cloud and Document Cloud suites. Industry: Creative & Digital Experience Software

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TL;DR · Software Engineer – Adobe Experience Platform

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As a Senior Software Engineer on Adobe’s Real-Time Customer Data Platform team, you will architect and scale systems that power global digital experiences with an emphasis on ultra-low-latency pipelines and AI-driven personalization. Your day-to-day responsibilities include designing globally distributed solutions for real-time identity resolution and customer profile management at massive scale, integrating cutting-edge AI/ML into RTCDP for advanced segmentation and recommendations, and engineering resilient data flows using Kafka, Spark, Java, and Scala to ensure SLAs across diverse user journeys. You will also build and maintain cloud-native microservices supporting trillions of queries and activations while leading project delivery from design through production. The role requires deep expertise in backend development with Java or Scala, experience with event-driven architectures, and a solid understanding of storage technologies like SQL, NoSQL, and key-value stores.

Skills

Java Scala Spring Boot Apache Spark Apache Flink Kafka Azure AWS Kubernetes Docker Prometheus Jenkins GitHub Actions CI/CD OpenAI Vector DBs RAG architectures

What you'll do

Design and deliver globally distributed solutions for real-time identity resolution and customer profiles at massive scale.
Integrate cutting-edge AI/ML into RTCDP for next-gen segmentation, recommendations, and live decisioning.
Engineer resilient, high-throughput data flows with Kafka, Spark, Java/Scala to ensure SLAs across diverse user journeys.
Build and maintain mission-critical, cloud-native microservices supporting trillions of queries and activations.
Lead project delivery from design through production, ensuring rigorous quality, performance, and measurable business results.
Mentor junior engineers and code reviewers, fostering engineering excellence across the team.

What we're looking for

5+ years developing large-scale distributed systems in production environments.
Expertise in backend development with Java or Scala, concurrency, performance tuning.
Proven experience engineering real-time data solutions using Kafka, Spark/Flink.
Solid understanding of storage technologies including SQL, NoSQL, key-value stores.
Strong analytical and problem-solving skills for critical system delivery.

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