Software Development Engineer

Adobe•San Jose, CA

19d

About The Position

Adobe Experience Platform (AEP) enables businesses to deliver the right experience at the right time to their customers. Segmentation Service is a core AEP service, providing the ability to define customer segments and generate target audiences from real-time customer profiles. Segment definitions are sophisticated queries over profile and event data that capture specific attributes or behaviors shared by a subset of users. Performing trillions of audience evaluations per day means scalability and efficiency aren’t goals — they’re the baseline. This role is for an engineer with professional experience in distributed systems who wants to work on hard, consequential problems with a technically strong team. You will contribute to services used by every Adobe Customer Experience Orchestration solution, working directly on the performance, correctness, and scalability of systems that never stop running.

Requirements

Professional software engineering experience in low-latency distributed systems or data-intensive backend services
Strong programming skills in Java or Scala, with growing awareness of JVM runtime behavior under load
Practical experience with distributed systems: consistency tradeoffs, failure handling, and the mechanics of event-driven or high-throughput workloads
Ability to think through solutions with both short-term and long-term considerations, and to deliver within defined time boundaries
Strong communication skills and collaborating effectively across engineering and product roles
Adaptable to evolving priorities and comfortable taking on problems outside your current experience
B.S. in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent experience, required

Nice To Haves

Exposure to data lakes, data warehouses, stream processing frameworks, or equivalent is a plus
M.S. or comparable practical experience preferred

Responsibilities

Collaborate with engineers and product managers to build high-performance, low-latency distributed services handling real-time segment query evaluation at scale
Implement features and improvements across the segmentation pipeline, progressing from well-defined work to owning components end to end
Investigate system performance: recognize when behavior is degraded, and trace the causes — from latency regressions to throughput drops — back to their source
Write well-tested Java code with attention to how implementation decisions affect runtime behavior: allocation patterns, synchronization, serialization cost, and their cumulative effect under load
Deploy production services and iterate based on operational feedback and customer signals
Participate in architecture and code reviews, contributing observations that reflect real engagement with technical tradeoffs
Follow Agile methodologies using industry-standard CI/CD practices
Heavily use AI to increase efficiency, iterate faster, with improved quality