Backend Engineer - Node.js / Fastify

Adobe • San Jose, CA

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About The Position

At Adobe, we believe in changing the world through digital experiences. We provide everything needed for crafting and delivering outstanding digital experiences, from emerging artists to global brands. Our team is passionate about empowering people to build beautiful and powerful images, videos, and apps, transforming how companies interact with customers across every screen. We are on a mission to hire the very best. We are committed to crafting outstanding employee experiences where everyone is respected and has equal opportunity. We know new ideas can come from anywhere in the organization, and the next big idea could be yours!

At Adobe, we start empowerment internally by providing teams with fast, reliable, and scalable digital infrastructure. This infrastructure transforms large data sets into clear, actionable insights. We seek an experienced Backend Engineer to develop and scale the server-side base of our advanced benchmark and analytics platform. This platform delivers real-time metrics, complex aggregations, customizable dashboards, and dependable data pipelines. It helps all parts of Adobe make faster, more informed decisions and unlock new levels of creativity and efficiency.

Requirements

• Over 4 years of professional experience in backend development, including a minimum of 3 years dedicated to working with Node.js in live production settings.
• Production experience building and maintaining APIs with Fastify in real-world, high-performance applications.
• Practical experience managing and deploying containerized applications on Azure Container Apps, including environment setup, revision management, scaling configuration, traffic routing, and monitoring in production.
• Solid expertise in contemporary JavaScript/TypeScript, asynchronous patterns, error management, and REST/GraphQL API creation in the Fastify environment.
• Hands-on experience in production settings involving ClickHouse and Node.js applications, covering schema optimization, improving query performance, bulk data ingestion, and handling analytical workloads at scale.
• Practical, direct experience working with Redis in Node.js for caching, rate limiting, session stores, queues, and pub/sub patterns.
• Experience configuring secure networking within Azure environments, including VNet integration for Azure Container Apps and VNet peering to privately connect services and data stores.
• Familiarity with containerization (Docker), Git, Azure CLI/Portal, and modern IaC/deploy workflows.
• Solid understanding of distributed systems challenges, performance optimization, and data consistency in high-throughput analytics platforms.
• Strong problem-solving skills and ability to debug complex issues across services, databases, and managed container platforms.

Nice To Haves

• Experience with real-time data processing (e.g., Kafka or similar for event streaming into ClickHouse).
• Familiarity with observability tools in containerized environments.
• Previous work on internal analytics, benchmark, or observability platforms or large-scale OLAP systems.
• Knowledge of Azure security guidelines.
• Experience working with Infrastructure as Code solutions like Bicep, Terraform, or Pulumi to deploy Azure Container Apps.

Responsibilities

• Build and implement scalable REST/GraphQL APIs and internal services using Node.js and Fastify. These will serve benchmark data, aggregations, filters, and real-time updates to the Vue.js front-end.
• Integrate and optimize queries with ClickHouse using the official @clickhouse/client library for high-throughput analytical workloads.
• Implement caching strategies with Redis to reduce latency on frequent reads, store session data, handle rate limiting, and support real-time features such as pub/sub for live benchmark updates.
• Build and maintain robust data ingestion pipelines, background jobs, and ETL-like processes to feed analytics data into ClickHouse reliably.
• Manage and operate containerized Node.js/Fastify services on Azure Container Apps, including setting up environments, updates, scaling policies, ingress/traffic splitting, secrets, and environment variables.
• Collaborate with front-end engineers, data analysts, and DevOps to define API contracts, resolve integration issues, and iterate on platform capabilities.
• Participate in code reviews, contribute to architecture decisions, and write comprehensive unit/integration tests to maintain code quality.
• Keep up to date with the Fastify ecosystem, Node.js progress, ClickHouse protocols, Redis strategies for analytics scenarios, Azure Container Apps developments, pertinent Kubernetes ideas, and changing AI-assisted development processes.

Benefits

• Competitive salary and benefits packages.
• At Adobe, you will be immersed in an exceptional work environment that is recognized around the world.
• 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.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed