Senior Software Development Engineer

The Opportunity

Adobe Experience Platform powers real-time, data-driven customer experiences at global scale! The Konductor and Data Prep teams build and operate the core ingestion, routing, and schema enforcement services that process millions of events per second across Adobe’s Edge Network. These are highly distributed, latency-sensitive systems where reliability, correctness, and isolation between downstream consumers are essential.

This role is perfect for engineers who enjoy large-scale distributed systems, high-throughput pipelines, and working with strong data contracts. It’s a chance to tackle challenging problems at the platform level, where every decision affects data quality, latency, and operational excellence.

What the Role Involves

The team designs and runs high-throughput, low-latency services that power event fan-out (Konductor) and ingestion-time transformations (Data Prep). Responsibilities include ensuring reliable delivery with ordering guarantees, managing backpressure, implementing schema-aware transformations based on Adobe’s Experience Data Model (XDM), and maintaining failure isolation, retries, and idempotency across distributed systems. Collaboration with Edge Network, Profile, and downstream teams ensures ingestion contracts remain stable.

Key focus areas include:

• Designing, building, and operating low-latency, high-throughput services

• Implementing and optimizing schema-aware data transformations and validations

• Handling failure isolation, retries, and idempotency in distributed pipelines

• Contributing to observability, monitoring, and debugging for multi-tenant data flows

• Participating in architectural discussions about scalability, cost efficiency, and operational excellence

• Supporting on-call rotations for mission-critical ingestion services

This is backend-heavy, systems-focused work, with minimal UI involvement — ideal for engineers who love solving complex distributed problems at scale!

What’s Needed to Succeed

Strong candidates typically have:

• Experience building distributed backend systems in production, with proficiency in Java, Kotlin, Scala, or similar JVM languages

• Solid understanding of event-driven architectures, message routing/fan-out patterns, at-least-once delivery, and idempotency

• Hands-on experience with schema enforcement, data validation, and ingestion pipelines

• Experience with microservices, containerized deployments (Docker/Kubernetes), and high-QPS API design

• Familiarity with back pressure, rate limiting, failure modes, partitioning, and horizontal scaling

• Strong debugging and troubleshooting skills in distributed systems

Nice-to-have skills (advantageous but not mandatory):

• Experience with streaming platforms (Kafka or similar)

• Knowledge of data modeling or schema-first systems

• Exposure to edge / low-latency systems

• Familiarity with multi-tenant SaaS platforms

• Experience with cloud platforms such as Azure or AWS

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.

Our 30,000+ employees worldwide are creating the future and raising the bar as we drive the next decade of growth. We’re on a mission to hire the very best and believe in creating a company culture where all employees are empowered to make an impact. At Adobe, we believe that great ideas can come from anywhere in the organization. The next big idea could be yours. 

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