- Location
- Bucharest, Romania
- Type
- Full-time
- Department
- Engineering
- Seniority
- Senior
- Source
- Workday
Description
The Opportunity
Adobe powers the digital experiences behind many of the world’s largest brands. Every day, our platforms process billions of customer interactions across websites, applications, and digital services.
We are looking for Senior Backend Engineers (Java) to build and operate the large-scale distributed systems behind Adobe Experience Cloud products such as Adobe Experience Platform, Adobe Analytics and Adobe Experience Manager.
You will work on high-throughput backend systems, real-time data pipelines, and cloud-native services running at global scale.
This role is ideal for engineers who would like to join Adobe's largest Engineering hub in EMEA and enjoy solving complex distributed systems problems, owning services end-to-end, and building reliable platforms that operate at global scale.
What You’ll Do
Design and build scalable backend services using Java and JVM technologies
Develop high-performance APIs and microservices serving global customer traffic
Build and operate distributed systems and event-driven architectures
Design real-time and batch data processing pipelines using technologies such as Kafka and Spark
Develop with a strong product-first approach, while prioritizing quality, reliability, security, and performance.
Collaborate multi-functionally with architects, product managers, data engineers, and site reliability engineers.
Contribute to infrastructure-as-code efforts using tools like Terraform and manage CI/CD pipelines and container orchestration via Kubernetes.
Monitor services with advanced observability tooling like Prometheus, Grafana, Splunk, New Relic, and Datadog.
What You'll Bring:
6+ years of backend software engineering experience
Strong expertise in Java and the JVM ecosystem
Experience designing and operating distributed systems or microservices
Hands-on experience with Kafka or other event streaming technologies
Experience building high-scale backend systems or data platforms
Experience working with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP)
Familiarity with container orchestration (Kubernetes)
Strong understanding of system scalability, performance, and reliability
Experience with observability and monitoring tools (Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, etc.)
Why Adobe Engineering
Work on systems that process billions of events every day
Solve complex distributed systems challenges at global scale
Build technology used by thousands of the world’s leading brands
Collaborate with highly experienced engineers across multiple engineering teams
Contribute to the evolution of cloud-native data platforms powering digital experiences
At Adobe, we believe in creating a company culture where all employees are empowered to make an impact. Learn more about Adobe life, including our values and culture, focus on people, purpose and community, Adobe For All, comprehensive benefits programs, the stories we tell, the customers we serve, and how you can help us change the world through personalized digital experience.
Adobe is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. We do not discriminate based on gender, race or color, ethnicity or national origin, age, disability, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, veteran status, or any other applicable characteristics protected by law. Learn more.
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About Adobe
Adobe empowers everyone to create through innovative platforms and tools that unleash creativity, productivity and personalized customer experiences. Adobe’s industry-leading offerings including Adobe Acrobat Studio, Adobe Express, Adobe Firefly, Creative Cloud, Adobe Experience Platform, Adobe Experience Manager, and GenStudio enable people and businesses to turn ideas into impact, powered by AI and driven by human ingenuity.
Our 30,000+ employees worldwide are creating the future and raising the bar as we drive the next decade of growth. We’re on a mission to hire the very best and believe in creating a company culture where all employees are empowered to make an impact. At Adobe, we believe that great ideas can come from anywhere in the organization. The next big idea could be yours.
Let’s Adobe together
At Adobe, we believe in creating a company culture where all employees are empowered to make an impact. Learn more about Adobe life, including our values and culture, focus on people, purpose and community, Adobe for All, comprehensive benefits programs, the stories we tell, the customers we serve, and how you can help us advance our mission of empowering everyone to create.
Adobe is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. We do not discriminate based on gender, race or color, ethnicity or national origin, age, disability, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, veteran status, or any other protected characteristic. Learn more.
Adobe aims to make our Careers website and recruiting process accessible to any and all users. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation to navigate our website or complete the application process, email [email protected] or call +1 408-536-3015.
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