Software Development Engineer

About the Position

We are looking for a Software Development Engineer to join our team in Bucharest, focusing on building and operating high-throughput, low-latency services for Adobe Experience Platform.

Responsibilities

• Designing, building, and operating low-latency, high-throughput services
• Implementing and optimizing schema-aware data transformations and validations
• Handling failure isolation, retries, and idempotency in distributed pipelines
• Contributing to observability, monitoring, and debugging for multi-tenant data flows
• Participating in architectural discussions about scalability, cost efficiency, and operational excellence
• Supporting on-call rotations for mission-critical ingestion services

Requirements

• Experience building distributed backend systems in production, with proficiency in Java, Kotlin, Scala, or similar JVM languages
• Solid understanding of event-driven architectures, message routing/fan-out patterns, at-least-once delivery, and idempotency
• Hands-on experience with schema enforcement, data validation, and ingestion pipelines
• Experience with microservices, containerized deployments (Docker/Kubernetes), and high-QPS API design
• Familiarity with back pressure, rate limiting, failure modes, partitioning, and horizontal scaling
• Strong debugging and troubleshooting skills in distributed systems

Nice to Have

• Experience with streaming platforms (Kafka or similar)
• Knowledge of data modeling or schema-first systems
• Exposure to edge / low-latency systems
• Familiarity with multi-tenant SaaS platforms
• Experience with cloud platforms such as Azure or AWS

We Offer

• Contract duration: 1 year, with possibility of extension
• Employment type: Only CIM contract
• Work setup: Hybrid, 2–3 days per week in the office

About the Company

Join our team and contribute to powering real-time, data-driven customer experiences at a global scale!