Software Development Engineer

Requirements

• Solve concrete engineering problems around latency, throughput, consistency, data durability, and storage cost
• Own parts of the system end-to-end, from design through production rollout
• Shape the team's technical direction through design reviews, prototypes, and honest debate
• Use modern development practices and AI-assisted tooling to keep the iteration loop tight and the quality bar high
• Participate in incident response and drive the follow-up fixes
• Collaborate with partner teams across Hamburg, the US, and India
• Several years of professional software engineering experience, with a track record of owning non-trivial systems in production
• Curiosity: you dig into unfamiliar systems and keep asking why until you hit the root cause
• Team player, comfortable giving and taking direct feedback
• Strong programming skills, ideally Java
• Clear, direct communication in German and English

Nice to Have

• Working knowledge of distributed systems, RESTful APIs, and a major cloud platform (AWS preferred)
• Hands-on experience with Spring, NoSQL databases such as MongoDB, Cassandra, or DynamoDB, and message queues
• Familiarity with observability tooling such as Splunk, Grafana, or Prometheus
• Experimenting with AI-assisted development workflows (e.g., Claude Code)

What You Will Be Doing

• Solve concrete engineering problems around latency, throughput, consistency, data durability, and storage cost
• Own parts of the system end-to-end, from design through production rollout
• Shape the team's technical direction through design reviews, prototypes, and honest debate
• Use modern development practices and AI-assisted tooling to keep the iteration loop tight and the quality bar high
• Participate in incident response and drive the follow-up fixes
• Collaborate with partner teams across Hamburg, the US, and India

Perks and Benefits

• Ownership of services that are essential for Adobe's creative products
• A team that takes engineering craft seriously: honest code reviews, data-driven postmortems, rigorous technical discussions
• Two on-site days per week at our Hamburg office, with flexibility to work from home on the other days
• Room to grow into deeper technical ownership or broader scope over time