Sr. Backend Engineer

Our Company

Changing the world through digital experiences is what Adobe’s all about. We give everyone—from emerging artists to global brands—everything they need to design and deliver exceptional digital experiences! We’re passionate about empowering people to create beautiful and powerful images, videos, and apps, and transform how companies interact with customers across every screen. 

We’re on a mission to hire the very best and are committed to creating exceptional employee experiences where everyone is respected and has access to equal opportunity. We realize that new ideas can come from everywhere in the organization, and we know the next big idea could be yours!

The Opportunity

The Observability team in Adobe Experience Platform is building scalable, performant services and tools to get insights on AEP Customers’ metrics.
For this we need your help. If you already have expertise in developing on top of the JVM platform (Java, Scala, Kotlin), know how to build applications and web services at scale and you are interested in learning new technologies, we would be very interested in talking to you to explore a possible collaboration.
 

What you'll do:

• Create the future Adobe products by building and maintaining complex features in a large-scale, multi-cloud microservices SaaS product.

• Own the outcome by taking the initiative and ownership for the application design efforts while always optimizing for quality, scalability and performance.

• Be genuine, serve as a mentor, cultivate a collaborative environment and encourage and guide team members by being honest and direct.

• Work with and across teams and domains to collaborate. Act with clarity and precision, ensuring projects are driven with a strong sense of ownership and direction.

What you need to succeed:

• Computer Science degree and 10+ years of relevant work experience

• Strong understanding on developing, architecting and running SaaS type of products

• Excellent understanding of OOP, Functional Programming, software life-cycle, source control tools

• Proven ability to research and become proficient in new technologies

• Experience with cloud services platforms (AWS and Azure)

• Experience with Java Virtual Machine related languages and technologies and Spark

• Knowledge in both building but also operating a service: CI/CD deployments, monitoring and alerting (Grafana, Prometheus, Splunk), Kubernetes-based deployments, infrastructure as code and provisioning tools (Terraform)

• A sharp eye for security related issues and performance bottlenecks

• Agile / Scrum project management methodologies

At Adobe, you will be immersed in an exceptional work environment that is recognised throughout the world on Best Companies lists. You will also be surrounded by colleagues who are committed to helping each other grow through our unique Check-In approach where ongoing feedback flows freely.
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