Distributed Systems Architect — Go & Elasticsearch (Remote)

Adobe; Murrieta (CA); Remote; USD 99,000 - 137,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote flexibility

Retirement matching

Coaching for mid-level goals

Job summary

Adobe in Murrieta, CA is hiring for a backend engineer with 3 years of Elasticsearch experience. You will own distributed systems, write robust unit tests, and migrate services to Linux-based deployments. The role emphasizes performance, observability, and cross-functional collaboration in a remote-friendly setup.

Expect to drive full lifecycle development from prototype to production, with a focus on reducing technical debt and delivering reliable software across environments.

Qualifications

• Experience building fault-tolerant distributed systems using Go.
• Proficient in Elasticsearch with strong performance tuning.
• Experience delivering tests and QA with unit tests under load.
• Willingness to learn resilience quickly.

Responsibilities

• Architect fault-tolerant distributed systems leveraging Go and Unit Testing.
• Own the full lifecycle of technology systems from prototype to production.
• Wrangle Selenium config across environments so Murrieta staging mirrors production.
• Own edge cases in Cross-Functional Collaboration billing nobody else wants to touch.
• Ship the Elasticsearch rewrite that pays down years of Adobe technical debt.
• Slice the remote-friendly technology monolith into Linux services Murrieta, CA can deploy alone.
• Stand up observability so Adobe sees failures before customers in CA do.

Skills

Go

Elasticsearch

Unit Testing

Distributed systems

Observability

Tools

Selenium

Linux

Job description

Adobe in Murrieta, CA is hiring for a backend engineer with 3 years of Elasticsearch experience. You will own distributed systems, write robust unit tests, and migrate services to Linux-based deployments. The role emphasizes performance, observability, and cross-functional collaboration in a remote-friendly setup.

Expect to drive full lifecycle development from prototype to production, with a focus on reducing technical debt and delivering reliable software across environments.