Sr. Backend Engineer (Java, Scala) - Adobe Analytics

Adobe Analytics powers data-driven decision making for many global enterprises. The platform enables organizations to collect, process, and analyze customer interaction data across digital channels.

The Customer Journey Analytics (CJA) Stitching team builds the systems that unify and process data from multiple sources to create consistent, real-time customer journeys.
The platform coordinates data ingestion, identity stitching, and analytics processing across multiple data sources. The system processes customer interaction data and transforms it into unified analytics datasets used across Adobe Experience Cloud.

As a Senior Backend Engineer, you will design and evolve the distributed systems and data pipelines that power these capabilities.

What You’ll Work On

• Design and build data processing pipelines using Java / Scala and Spark

• Develop systems responsible for customer identity stitching and data aggregation

• Design and optimize distributed data processing workflows

• Contribute to architecture and system design decisions

• Improve pipeline reliability, observability, and performance

• Work with multi-cloud infrastructure (AWS, Azure, GCP) and infrastructure-as-code tools

• Own services through the full lifecycle — from design and implementation to production operations

• Collaborate with engineers, architects, and product teams across Adobe Analytics

Technology Stack
Examples of technologies used across the platform include:

• Java / JVM ecosystem

• Scala and Apache Spark

• Databricks

• Kafka and distributed data pipelines

• Cloud infrastructure (AWS, Azure, GCP)

• Observability tools such as Datadog, Prometheus, and Grafana

What We’re Looking For

• 5+ years of backend or data platform engineering experience

• Strong expertise in Java or Scala

• Experience building distributed systems or data processing pipelines

• Experience with Spark or large-scale data processing frameworks

• Experience working with cloud infrastructure

• Strong understanding of system reliability, performance, and observability

Nice to Have

• Experience with Kafka or event-driven architectures

• Experience with modern data platforms (Iceberg, Hadoop ecosystem, etc.)

• Experience working with Databricks

• Experience contributing to architecture decisions and mentoring engineers

Why Engineers Join This Team

• Work on core analytics infrastructure used by enterprise customers

• Solve data processing and distributed systems challenges

• Build systems powering real-time customer journey analytics

• Collaborate with experienced engineers across Adobe’s global engineering teams

Engineering Environment
Engineers on this team work on production systems running in modern cloud environments, using:

• Distributed data processing frameworks

• Event-driven architectures

• Cloud-native infrastructure

• Large-scale analytics pipelines

If you enjoy building reliable backend systems and data platforms used across multiple products and services, let’s talk!

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