Software Development Engineer 3

Our iPaaS team builds and operates Adobe’s enterprise integration platform, enabling reliable, scalable connectivity across business-critical applications and data platforms. The platform spans API and event-driven integrations, Kafka-based streaming, cloud services, data synchronization, and self-service integration capabilities.

We are now evolving the platform with AI-powered engineering and agentic automation—building intelligent agents that can monitor integrations, perform automated triage and root-cause analysis, recommend or execute remediation, and simplify integration development and operations.

If you are passionate about distributed systems, event-driven architecture, Kafka, Java, cloud platforms, and AI agents, this is an opportunity to build foundational capabilities used across Adobe at scale.

We are looking for a  Senior Backend Java Engineer  – Kafka & Agentic AI to design and develop high-volume, highly available backend services powering Adobe’s enterprise integration platform.

In this role, you will work across Java/Spring, Kafka and event-driven architectures, while integrating LLMs, RAG, MCP and AI agents into platform services. You will build intelligent capabilities for automated monitoring, triage, RCA, remediation and developer self-service.

• Java Core & Frameworks: 5–7 years of experience building scalable, multithreaded server-side applications using Java/Java EE, Spring Framework, and object-oriented design patterns.
• Data & Performance: Deep proficiency with Relational Databases (SQL, high-performance transactional queries) and MongoDB, using ORMs (JPA2, Hibernate) optimized for speed and scalability.
• AI/ML Integration: Hands-on experience integrating LLMs/AI APIs (OpenAI, Claude, Gemini) into Java services using frameworks like Spring AI or LangChain4j, including prompt engineering and context management.
• AI Infrastructure & RAG: Familiarity with vector databases (e.g., Pinecone, Milvus, pgvector) and Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) architecture to build reliable backend features.
• Modern AI Practices: Practical experience with AI-assisted dev tools (Copilot, Cursor) alongside an understanding of model deployment, cost/latency optimization, and responsible AI guardrails (privacy, hallucination mitigation).

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