Backend Engineer - Node.js / Fastify

As one of the world's most innovative software companies whose products touch billions of people around the world, Adobe empowers everyone, everywhere to imagine, create, and bring any digital experience to life. From creators and students to small businesses, global enterprises, and nonprofit organizations - customers choose Adobe products to ideate, collaborate, be more productive, drive business growth, and build remarkable experiences.

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.

Location: San Jose, CA, United States

At Adobe, we believe in changing the world through digital experiences. We provide everything needed for crafting and delivering outstanding digital experiences, from emerging artists to global brands. Our team is passionate about empowering people to build beautiful and powerful images, videos, and apps, transforming how companies interact with customers across every screen.

We are on a mission to hire the very best. We are committed to crafting outstanding employee experiences where everyone is respected and has equal opportunity. We know new ideas can come from anywhere in the organization, and the next big idea could be yours!

At Adobe, we start empowerment internally by providing teams with fast, reliable, and scalable digital infrastructure. This infrastructure transforms large data sets into clear, actionable insights. We seek an experienced Backend Engineer to develop and scale the server-side base of our advanced benchmark and analytics platform. This platform delivers real-time metrics, complex aggregations, customizable dashboards, and dependable data pipelines. It helps all parts of Adobe make faster, more informed decisions and unlock new levels of creativity and efficiency.

• Build and implement scalable REST/GraphQL APIs and internal services using Node.js and Fastify. These will serve benchmark data, aggregations, filters, and real-time updates to the Vue.js front-end.
• Integrate and optimize queries with ClickHouse using the official @clickhouse/client library for high-throughput analytical workloads.
• Implement caching strategies with Redis to reduce latency on frequent reads, store session data, handle rate limiting, and support real-time features such as pub/sub for live benchmark updates.
• Build and maintain robust data ingestion pipelines, background jobs, and ETL-like processes to feed analytics data into ClickHouse reliably.
• Manage and operate containerized Node.js/Fastify services on Azure Container Apps, including setting up environments, updates, scaling policies, ingress/traffic splitting, secrets, and environment variables.
• Collaborate with front-end engineers, data analysts, and DevOps to define API contracts, resolve integration issues, and iterate on platform capabilities.
• Participate in code reviews, contribute to architecture decisions, and write comprehensive unit/integration tests to maintain code quality.
• Keep up to date with the Fastify ecosystem, Node.js progress, ClickHouse protocols, Redis strategies for analytics scenarios, Azure Container Apps developments, pertinent Kubernetes ideas, and changing AI-assisted development processes.

• Over 4 years of professional experience in backend development, including a minimum of 3 years dedicated to working with Node.js in live production settings.
• Production experience building and maintaining APIs with Fastify in real-world, high-performance applications.
• Practical experience managing and deploying containerized applications on Azure Container Apps, including environment setup, revision management, scaling configuration, traffic routing, and monitoring in production.
• Solid expertise in contemporary JavaScript/TypeScript, asynchronous patterns, error management, and REST/GraphQL API creation in the Fastify environment.
• Hands-on experience in production settings involving ClickHouse and Node.js applications, covering schema optimization, improving query performance, bulk data ingestion, and handling analytical workloads at scale.
• Practical, direct experience working with Redis in Node.js for caching, rate limiting, session stores, queues, and pub/sub patterns.
• Experience configuring secure networking within Azure environments, including VNet integration for Azure Container Apps and VNet peering to privately connect services and data stores.
• Familiarity with containerization (Docker), Git, Azure CLI/Portal, and modern IaC/deploy workflows.
• Solid understanding of distributed systems challenges, performance optimization, and data consistency in high-throughput analytics platforms.
• Strong problem-solving skills and ability to debug complex issues across services, databases, and managed container platforms.

• Experience with real-time data processing (e.g., Kafka or similar for event streaming into ClickHouse).
• Familiarity with observability tools in containerized environments.
• Previous work on internal analytics, benchmark, or observability platforms or large-scale OLAP systems.
• Knowledge of Azure security guidelines.
• Experience working with Infrastructure as Code solutions like Bicep, Terraform, or Pulumi to deploy Azure Container Apps.

• Opportunity to own critical backend components in a high-impact internal platform that powers Adobe's decision-making and innovation.
• Collaborative environment with direct influence on architecture and technology choices in a passionate culture.
• Competitive salary and benefits packages.

At Adobe, we believe in creating a company culture where all employees are empowered to make an impact. Learn more about Adobe life, including our values and culture, focus on people, purpose and community, Adobe For All, comprehensive benefits programs, the stories we tell, the customers we serve, and how you can help us change the world through personalized digital experience.

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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.

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At Adobe, we believe in creating a company culture where all employees are empowered to make an impact. Learn more about Adobe life, including our values and culture, focus on people, purpose and community, Adobe for All, comprehensive benefits programs, the stories we tell, the customers we serve, and how you can help us advance our mission of empowering everyone to create.

Adobe is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. We do not discriminate based on gender, race or color, ethnicity or national origin, age, disability, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, veteran status, or any other protected characteristic. Learn more.

Adobe aims to make our Careers website and recruiting process accessible to any and all users. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation to navigate our website or complete the application process, email accommodations@adobe.com or call +1 408-536-3015.

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