Systems Design Architect

: Our Company Changing the world through digital experiences is what Adobe's all about. We give everyone—from emerging artists to global brands—everything they need to design and deliver exceptional digital experiences! We're passionate about empowering people to create beautiful and powerful images, videos, and apps, and transform how companies interact with customers across every screen. We're on a mission to hire the very best and are committed to creating exceptional employee experiences where everyone is respected and has access to equal opportunity. We realize that new ideas can come from everywhere in the organization, and we know the next big idea could be yours! Our Company Changing the world through digital experiences is what Adobe's all about. We give everyone—from emerging artists to global brands—everything they need to design and deliver exceptional digital experiences! We're passionate about empowering people to create beautiful and powerful images, videos, and apps, and transform how companies interact with customers across every screen. We're on a mission to hire the very best and are committed to creating exceptional employee experiences where everyone is respected and has access to equal opportunity. We realize that new insights can come from everywhere in the organization, and we know the next big idea could be yours! The Opportunity The Adobe Commerce Data Solutions team is looking for a Systems Design Architect passionate about retrieval systems and large scale indexing pipelines. We sit at the intersection of data and machine learning and build intelligent commerce solutions for AI filled shopper experiences, such as Live Search, Product Recommendations, merchandizing, business intelligence - just to name a few. This position includes ownership of data projections at the edge, optimized for multi-tenant retrieval and storage, and operationalizing indexing and ML pipelines. What you'll Do Define, design, implement and deliver large scale data pipelines for behavioral signals, clickstream and business events. Optimize Elasticsearch configurations and queries to improve search relevance, query performance, and resource utilization. Resolve issues related to indexing, search, and data ingestion in Elasticsearch. Take ownership and help improve the performance and scalability of the product. You'll also ensure a strong emphasis on monitoring and metrics for analyzing health and usage of features. Implement continuous validation process of the data pipelines. Actively participate in the end-to-end development of future vision and architecture of our Commerce SaaS platform. Ensure high services quality and availability by following service operation methodologies and industry standards. Work with multi-functional teams across Adobe to realize maximum customer value. Work in a Lean-Agile environment. What you need to succeed Bachelors/Master's degree with a focus in Information Technology / Computer Science or related field Excellent Communications skills (written & verbal) Strong background in distributed systems and service oriented architectures Proficient in developing/designing complex distributed ETL/ELT pipelines, as well as data management, modeling, and storage Proficient with Lucene/ElasticSearch based retrieval systems Proficient working in Microservices (gRPC, REST or GraphQL) Proficient Java developer (or a comparable mainstream language) with 10+ years hands-on experience Preferably worked with NoSQL databases (Cassandra, Mongo), Data Warehouses (presto, impala, snowflake, redshift), streaming technologies such as Kafka A plus if you have familiarity with writing Spark jobs Knowledge of virtualization technology such as Docker, Kubernetes, Helm Navigates ambiguity well. Arbitrates technical tradeoffs with an eye toward long-term scalability goals. Self-motivator, quick learner, and a standout colleague Strong sense of ownership; desire to be involved in the full lifecycle of a project from concept to completion Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several U.S. geographic markets, and we pay differently based on those defined markets. The U.S. pay range for this position is $134,800 -- $267,600 annually. Pay within this range varies by work location and may also depend on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for the job location during the hiring process. At Adobe, for sales roles starting salaries are expressed as total target compensation (TTC = base + commission), and short-term incentives are in the form of sales commission plans. Non-sales roles starting salaries are expressed as base salary and short-term incentives are in the form of the Annual Incentive Plan (AIP). 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