The Opportunity
Adobe Real-Time CDP enables enterprises to unify customer data acrossevery source, resolve identity at scale, and activate audiences in real timeacross any channel. The platform processes billions of events, enforces datagovernance across complex enterprise hierarchies, and powers thepersonalization layer for some of the world's largest brands.
You will join one of our **Frontier AI Pods **— a small, cross-functional teamwith full ownership that delivers end-to-end capabilities and features askedby regional EMEA customers.
This is not a maintenance role. The capabilities are delivered fast tocustomers and your Pod iterates in making sure adoption is guaranteed.
What You'll Build
- Distributed services and event-driven pipelines that process real-timecustomer data at enterprise scale
- Secure data collaboration capabilities — the infrastructure that allowsorganizations to connect, share, and activate data across partnerecosystems without compromising governance
- Workflow orchestration services coordinating cross-system flows acrossAEP, RTCDP, and external data platforms
- Reliable, observable APIs consumed by multiple Adobe products andenterprise integrations
- Production systems with defined SLOs — you own services from designthrough live operation
What Success Looks Like
We hire for demonstrated delivery, not credential accumulation. Strong candidates will show:
- **Correctness as a design instinct — **you build distributed systemswhere data integrity, idempotency, and audit trails are first-classconcerns, not retrofits
- **Production ownership — **a track record of shipping services thatoperate at scale, degrade gracefully, and recover without humanintervention
- **Customer-to-capability translation — **you move fluently between whata customer needs and what the system must do, collapsing the gapbetween requirement and working platform feature
- **AI-augmented execution — **you use AI-assisted development tools(Claude Code, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, or equivalent) as a standard partof how you design, build, and review code
- **System-level thinking — **you understand not only how distributedsystems work, but why the tradeoffs you made were the right ones forthe context
Typical background: 8+ years building Java-based systems in production. What matters is what that experience has produced, not the number of years.
What We Value
Beyond technical execution, the engineers who grow fastest on this team demonstrate:
Agency
You identify problems before they are assigned to you and drive them to resolution
Produc**t Judgment**
You understand what the platform needs to do for customers, not just what the ticket says to build
Adaptability
You navigate ambiguity, adjust course when evidence shifts, and don't
mistake seniority for certainty
Builde**r Mindse**t
You are as comfortable prototyping a new capability as you are hardening an existing one.
Your Stack
**Java / JVM - **Primary language for platform services
**Kafka - **Event-driven architectures and real-timepipelines
**Kubernetes - **Containerized service deployment andoperation
**Snowflake - **Modern cloud data platform integration
**AWS / Azure - **Cloud infrastructure and managed services
**Temporal - **Workflow orchestration
**Prometheus · Grafana · Splunk - **Observability and production monitoring
Nice to Have
- Experience with data governance, privacy-preserving computation, orsecure data collaboration patterns
- Background in distributed data platforms (Delta Lake, Iceberg, or similar)
- Familiarity with identity resolution or customer data unification systems
- Contributions to architecture decisions or mentoring of engineers inprevious roles
Why This Team
- Work on infrastructure that directly enables real-time data activationfor enterprise customers at global scale
- Operate inside a Frontier AI Pod — a small, autonomous team with end-to-end ownership
- Collaborate with experienced engineers across Adobe's global platformteams
- Solve problems that are genuinely hard: correctness, scale, governance, and real-time performance in the same system
This role is for engineers who want to understand not only how systems work— but why they matter.
**AI Use: **Adobe encourages candidates to use AI tools as part of their naturalworkflow — including during preparation for this process. We are assessing how youthink and build, not whether your first draft was unaided.
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**
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