Sr. Software Development Engineer (Java) – Adobe Experience Platform

The Scale You’ll Work At

Every morning, billions of people wake up and interact with the world through screens — browsing, shopping, streaming, deciding. Behind a remarkable number of those moments is an Adobe product. Not in a passive way. Adobe’s technology is actively shaping what gets shown, when, to whom, and why.

Adobe Experience Platform (AEP) is the infrastructure that makes that possible at enterprise scale. It is a real-time customer data platform that ingests, unifies, and activates petabytes of behavioral, transactional, and identity data across the world’s largest brands. Think sub-second latency, 360-degree customer profiles built on the fly, live data governance, and machine learning pipelines — all running across a multi-cloud, multi-region architecture serving thousands of enterprise customers simultaneously.

This is not a greenfield side project. AEP is a production system at scale, and the Bucharest engineering team is a full, first-class part of building it.

What You’ll Work On

You will be a Senior Backend Engineer on a product team that owns specific AEP services end-to-end — from architecture decisions through deployment, monitoring, and iteration in production.

• Design and build Java-based backend services and microservices, handling high-throughput, low-latency data pipelines at scale.
• Drive technical decisions — system design, data modelling, API contracts, resiliency patterns — with the confidence to advocate for the right solution and the judgment to know when to compromise.
• Raise the engineering bar in your team. That means thorough code reviews, pushing for better abstractions and identifying performance and security risks early
• Mentor and be mentored. Bucharest is a senior-heavy team. You will have real access to experienced engineers and be expected to accelerate those around you in return.
• Ship with operational excellence — meaningful observability, disciplined CI/CD, infrastructure as code, and a bias toward systems that are boring in production.
• Work across domains. AEP is a platform; its value comes from integration. You will collaborate regularly with teams across Adobe, including data science, identity, analytics, and security.

Technology Stack

Examples of technologies used across the platform include:

• Java / JVM ecosystem (Java, Kotlin)
• Kafka and event-driven architectures
• Cassandra, HBase, and distributed storage systems
• Cloud infrastructure (AWS and Azure)
• Kubernetes and containerized services
• CI/CD and infrastructure-as-code tools
• Observability tooling for monitoring and logging

What We’re Looking For

You should apply if you have:

• 5+ years of engineering experience building and operating production backend systems
• Deep fluency in Java or Kotlin — not just syntax familiarity, but genuine understanding of the JVM, concurrency models, and writing code that performs under load
• Strong grasp of distributed systems fundamentals: consistency models, failure modes, backpressure, eventual consistency trade-offs
• Hands-on experience with cloud infrastructure (AWS and/or Azure)
• Experience operating streaming or NoSQL data infrastructure (Kafka, Cassandra, HBase, or equivalents)
• A track record of delivering SaaS products with serious quality signals: observability, graceful degradation, security threat modelling, load testing
• Clear, direct communication — e.g. you can write a design doc that gets to the point and push back constructively in a review

You’ll stand out if you have:

• Experience designing systems that ingest or process data at petabyte scale
• Contributions to open-source projects or a history of engaging with the broader engineering community

Why Engineers Join Our Team

Adobe’s Bucharest engineering centre is not an outpost — it is one of the primary locations where AEP is built.

Engineers on this team work on production systems running in multi-cloud environments, focused on:

• Distributed backend services
• Event-driven architectures
• Data processing platforms
• Reliable and observable systems

If this sounds like the right level of challenging for you, let’s talk!

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