Cloud Backend Engineer - Adobe Cloud Platform

Team

We are a Hamburg-based team inside Adobe Cloud Platform & Collaboration (ACPC). We own the backend platform for live collaboration, asynchronous eventing, cloud-native file formats, and large‑scale file storage. Products like Photoshop, Firefly, Express, and the Document Cloud run on top of our APIs. High traffic, latency‑sensitive, on the critical path of nearly every Adobe creative workflow.

What You Will Do

• Solve concrete engineering problems around latency, throughput, consistency, data durability, and storage cost
• Own parts of the system end‑to‑end, from design through production rollout
• Shape the team's technical direction through design reviews, prototypes, and honest debate
• Use modern development practices and AI‑assisted tooling to keep the iteration loop tight and the quality bar high
• Participate in incident response and drive the follow‑up fixes
• Collaborate with partner teams across Hamburg, the US, and India

What We Look For

• Several years of professional software engineering experience, with a track record of owning non‑trivial systems in production
• Curiosity: you dig into unfamiliar systems and keep asking why until you hit the root cause
• Teamplayer, comfortable giving and taking direct feedback
• Strong programming skills, ideally Java
• Clear, direct communication in German and English

Nice to have

• Working knowledge of distributed systems, RESTful APIs, and a major cloud platform (AWS preferred)
• Hands‑on experience with Spring, NoSQL databases such as MongoDB, Cassandra, or DynamoDB, and message queues
• Familiarity with observability tooling such as Splunk, Grafana, or Prometheus
• Experimenting with AI‑assisted development workflows (e.g., Claude Code)

What We Offer

• Ownership of services that are essential for Adobe's creative products
• A team that takes engineering craft seriously: honest code reviews, data‑driven postmortems, rigorous technical discussions
• Two on‑site days per week at our Hamburg office, with flexibility to work from home on the other days
• Room to grow into deeper technical ownership or broader scope over time

If you do not tick every box, apply anyway. We care about judgment, growth, and how you think about problems.

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