Architect, Site Reliability Engineering

Adobe

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San Jose, US · San Francisco, US Posted 60 days ago $228,600–$331,050 / year
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TL;DR

As a Senior SRE Technical Lead / Architect at Adobe’s RealTime Customer Data Platform (RTCDP), you will ensure the reliability, scalability, and operational excellence of one of Adobe’s most customer-visible platforms. This high-impact role involves owning day-to-day production reliability, serving as a technical lead during incidents, and driving improvements in incident response processes. You will also provide leadership for RTCDP’s core datastores such as Aerospike, FoundationDB, Postgres, CosmosDB, and DynamoDB, focusing on automation, cost optimization, and disaster recovery strategies. Additionally, you will design automation-first solutions to reduce toil, influence architecture decisions, and promote consistent operational patterns across services and regions. The ideal candidate has over 10 years of experience in running large-scale distributed systems, a strong background in datastores and reliability engineering, and the ability to mentor engineers while championing SRE principles.

Skills

Aerospike FoundationDB Postgres CosmosDB DynamoDB SRE DevOps CI/CD Kubernetes Terraform AWS GCP Prometheus Grafana Python Shell scripting SQL Monitoring Alerting Observability

What you'll do

  • Own day2 production reliability for RTCDP, ensuring alignment with SLOs.
  • Serve as technical lead during incidents, driving mitigation and recovery strategies.
  • Lead core datastore strategy, including reliability, scalability, and disaster recovery.
  • Design automation-first solutions to reduce toil and improve system safety.
  • Influence architecture decisions to enhance reliability, scalability, and operability.

What we're looking for

  • 10+ years of experience in running large-scale distributed systems.
  • Strong background in datastores, reliability engineering, and automation.
  • Proven leadership in managing production incidents and driving operational improvements.
  • Experience in technical leadership without direct ownership across multiple teams.
  • Passion for building resilient systems and mentoring engineers.
  • Comfort with high ownership, ambiguity, and operating at global scale.

Market check

Salary context

This $228,600–$331,050 range sits above 88% of similar postings on FindRole.

Peer median band

$136,300–$218,500

Median floor and ceiling across peers.

Typical midpoint (25–75%)

$142,400–$220,950

Middle half of comparable postings.

Based on 239 comparable postings.

* 240 is the maximum number of comparable postings sampled.

Employer

About Adobe

Adobe Inc. is a global software company known for creative and multimedia software products including Photoshop, Illustrator, Acrobat, and its cloud-based Creative Cloud and Document Cloud suites. Industry: Creative & Digital Experience Software

Adobe currently has 290 open roles on FindRole.

Listed pay typically runs $183,300–$265,350 across 290 roles with salary data.

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