senior software engineering Software Engineer ic 9+ yrs · Posted Mar 19, 2026
AI Summary
Design and build distributed, scalable microservices and BigData applications for Adobe's Real-Time CDP platform connecting to partner ecosystems. Requires 9+ years backend engineering with JVM languages, microservices architecture, CI/CD pipelines, and hands-on AI tool experience. Involves on-call rotation, code reviews, and cross-team collaboration.

The Opportunity


Adobe Real-Time Customer Data Platform (Real-Time CDP) helps companies bring together known and anonymous data from multiple enterprise sources in order to create customer profiles that can be used to provide personalized customer experiences across all channels and devices in real time.

You are more than welcome in our group of engineers who build the systems connecting Real-Time CDP to a large ecosystem of partners, from on-site or in-app personalization to email, paid media, call centers, connected devices, and more.

In collaboration with a larger distributed team of product and engineering experts, we innovate, craft and operate distributed micro services and BigData processing applications powering hundreds of partner integrations.


This role blends data infrastructure, AI workflows, and multi-cloud technologies to drive real-time customer intelligence. If you enjoy solving complex challenges and working in a collaborative, fast-paced environment, we want to hear from you!


What you'll Do

Design, build and deliver distributed, resilient, scalable, highly available services for BigData applications
Research on various technologies useful for the project and keep in touch with the evolution of the industry
Deploy, monitor and maintain the services you build
Use brand new AI tools to boost your software engineering efficiency
Apply software quality principles by performing code reviews, assuring code coverage and analyze cost efficiency for developed code
Perform on-call activities, on rotation with the rest of the team
Be involved in all the product development and delivery stages, as part as an agile engineering team.
Work in an environment that supports individual growth and continuous learning.


What you need to succeed
9+ years of backend software engineering experience
Strong knowledge of JVM languages (Java/Scala) and deep experience in crafting scalable and distributed applications.
Experience developing and maintaining micro-services, REST APIs, CI/CD pipelines, source control tools, DevOps principles and observability tools
Hands-on experience in using AI tools for practical applications to improve productivity and efficiency across diverse work environments.
Able to collaborate with other teams and roles to transform the business requirements into feature specs, establish integration design, resolve dependencies and adopt best-practices.
Able to communicate technical details clearly to all levels of the organization. Excellent written and spoken English.


Bonus Skills
Experience with distributed systems, large-scale data processing (Spark, Kafka, Hadoop), and real-time stream or batch data architecture.

About Adobe

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