Senior Backend Engineer

Adobe Real-Time Customer Data Platform (RTCDP) enables enterprises to unify customer data and activate it in real time across digital experiences. The RTCDP Collaboration team builds the systems that allow organizations to securely share and activate data across companies while maintaining strong privacy, governance, and performance standards. The team builds services responsible for secure data sharing, real-time data processing, and orchestration across enterprise data platforms.

As a Senior Backend Engineer, you will design and build the distributed services that power this capability — including Java-based backend systems, event-driven pipelines, and cloud-native platform services.

What You’ll Work On

• Design and build Java-based backend services and microservices

• Develop event-driven systems and data pipelines using technologies such as Kafka

• Build and evolve workflow orchestration services coordinating cross-system processes

• Design reliable APIs and backend services used by multiple Adobe products

• Contribute to architecture and system design decisions

• Improve system reliability, observability, and performance

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

• Collaborate with engineers and product teams across multiple regions

Technology Stack

Examples of technologies used across the platform include:

• Java / JVM ecosystem

• Kafka and event-driven architectures

• Snowflake and modern cloud data platforms

• Workflow orchestration

• Kubernetes and containerized services

• Cloud infrastructure (AWS and Azure)

• Observability tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, and Splunk

What We’re Looking For

• 9+ years of backend engineering experience

• Strong expertise in Java and microservices architectures

• Experience designing and operating distributed systems

• Experience with event-driven architectures (Kafka or similar technologies)

• Experience building data processing pipelines

• Experience working with cloud-native environments

• Strong understanding of system design, reliability, and performance

Nice to Have

• Experience with Snowflake or modern cloud data warehouses

• Experience with workflow orchestration systems (Temporal or similar)

• Background in distributed data platforms

• Experience contributing to architecture decisions or mentoring engineers

• Demonstrated impact in mentoring senior engineers and influencing architectural direction.

• Practical experience using AI tools and agentic workflows to enhance engineering productivity.

Why Engineers Join This Team

Work on core platform services within Adobe Experience Platform. Build systems enabling secure enterprise data collaboration. Solve distributed systems and data platform challenges. Collaborate with experienced engineers across Adobe’s global engineering teams. This role is for engineers who want to understand not only how systems work — but why they matter. In RTCDP Collaboration, you won’t just move data. You will help enterprises connect, collaborate, and unlock value from their data in ways that directly impact their business success. If that challenge excites you — let’s talk.

About Adobe

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