Software Development Engineer

The 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.

We build it, we ship it, we run it.

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

Curiousity: 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.

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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