Senior Software Development Engineer

Requirements

• 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 Haves

• 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

What You'll Be Doing

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.

• 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

Perks and Benefits

Not available.