Software Development Engineer

Job description

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 ro...