# Senior Software Engineer – Adobe Real-Time Customer Data Platform

**Company**: Adobe
**Location**: San Jose
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $139,000 - $257,550 annually
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

At Adobe, innovation means reimagining how the world experiences digital at scale. Our Real-Time Customer Data Platform (RTCDP) processes trillions of events, resolving identities and driving hyper-personalized interactions within milliseconds.

As a Senior Software Engineer on the Adobe Experience Platform (AEP) team, you will architect and scale systems that power global digital experiences, with an emphasis on ultra-low-latency pipelines, intelligent decisioning, and AI-driven personalization.

**What You will Build and Drive**

- Architect Distributed Data Systems: Design and deliver globally distributed solutions for real-time identity resolution, consent management, and accurate customer profiles at massive scale.

- AI & ML Personalization: Integrate cutting-edge Generative AI/ML into RTCDP for next-gen segmentation, recommendations, and live decisioning.

- Low-Latency Data Pipelines: Engineer resilient, high-throughput data flows with Kafka, Spark, Java/Scala to guarantee SLAs across diverse user journeys.

- Microservices at Scale: Build and maintain mission-critical, cloud-native microservices supporting trillions of queries and activations.

- Leadership & Ownership: Lead project delivery from design through production, ensuring rigorous quality, performance, and measurable business results.

- Mentorship: Coach and mentor junior engineers and code reviewers, fostering engineering excellence across the team.

- Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner with product managers, designers, and data scientists to deliver privacy-first, customer-centric solutions that align with regulatory standards.

**About Your Technical Playground**

- Languages: Java, Scala

- Frameworks: Spring Boot, Apache Spark, Apache Flink

- Data Infrastructure: Kafka, Cosmos DB, Aerospike, FoundationDB, NoSQL systems, Delta Lake, Apache Iceberg, Snowflake

- Cloud & Infra: Azure, AWS, Kubernetes, Docker

- AI & Intelligence: OpenAI, Vector DBs, RAG architectures

- DevOps: Jenkins, GitHub Actions, CI/CD pipelines, Prometheus

**What We’re Looking For**

- Minimum Qualifications:

- 5+ years’ experience developing large-scale distributed systems or platforms in production environments.

- Deep expertise in backend development (Java or Scala), with advanced skills in concurrency, performance tuning, and microservices.

- Proven track record engineering real-time data solutions using event-driven architectures (Kafka, Spark/Flink).

- Experience designing, implementing, and operating fault-tolerant, low-latency APIs in cloud-native settings.

- Solid understanding of storage technologies (SQL, NoSQL, key-value stores).

- Strong analytical and problem-solving capabilities,a proven ability to deliver results within critically important systems.

- Preferred Skills:

- Experience with customer data platforms, martech, adtech, or relevant verticals.

- Background in identity resolution, segmentation, consent management, or privacy-first data architectures.

- Hands-on with machine learning or personalization systems.

- Working knowledge of regulatory compliance frameworks (GDPR, CCPA).

- Demonstrated mentorship, leadership, and ability to shape architectural direction.

**What We Offer**

- Competitive compensation

- Equity awards and annual incentive plans

- Comprehensive health, dental, vision, and mental wellness coverage

- Learning budgets and career development support

- Generous parental leave and family support programs

- Flexible hybrid work model and wellness days

## Skills

### Required
- Java
- Scala
- Kafka
- Spark
- Apache Flink
- Spring Boot
- microservices
- cloud-native
- low-latency
- data pipelines
- AI
- ML
- personalization

### Nice to have
- customer data platforms
- martech
- adtech
- identity resolution
- segmentation
- consent management
- privacy-first data architectures
- machine learning
- regulatory compliance frameworks

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