Senior Site Reliability Engineer

Adobe

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Work type
On-site
Location
New York, NY
Salary
$177,900–$257,550 / yr
Posted
35 days ago
Freshness
Confirmed live yesterday

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Salary context

Above market

How this pay compares to similar roles

Similar $181k
This role $218k
$129k most similar roles pay here $271k

This role pays more than 82% of similar roles. Most pay $150,000–$211,375 — the shaded band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $218k versus about $181k for comparable roles.

Based on 238 similar postings.

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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 218 open roles on FindRole.

Listed pay typically runs $187,100–$270,950 across 216 roles with salary data.

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TL;DR · Senior Site Reliability Engineer

The Senior Site Reliability Engineer joins the Creative Community CCM organization to support infrastructure for Adobe Stock and AI-powered products. This role involves designing, building, and operating large-scale, distributed, fault-tolerant systems while managing IaC, CI/CD pipelines, and automation tooling. Key responsibilities include overseeing patch and vulnerability management across the fleet, executing compute rationalization, and building ML inference infrastructure including model serving and GPU workloads. The candidate will manage infrastructure for web services, databases, and pipelines while establishing security guardrails for agentic AI. Required skills include proficiency in Python, with familiarity in PHP, Node.js, or Ruby. Technical requirements include experience with Kubernetes, AWS, SageMaker, Bedrock, Terraform, and Ansible. The role addresses the challenge of maintaining reliable, cloud-native infrastructure to support high-scale machine learning workflows and automated content services across multiple cloud platforms.

What does a Site Reliability Engineer earn?

Median $186200 from 131 postings across 36 companies.

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What you'll do

  • Design, build, and operate large-scale, distributed, fault-tolerant systems using IaC, CI/CD, and automation tooling.
  • Manage the patch, vulnerability, and golden-image lifecycle across the entire infrastructure fleet.
  • Build and operate ML inference infrastructure including model serving, GPU workloads, and language model gateways.
  • Establish infrastructure standards and security guardrails for agentic AI systems and internal operations tools.
  • Execute multi-quarter initiatives involving compute rationalization, cloud re-platforming, and ML platform migration.
  • Participate in an on-call rotation to troubleshoot issues across web services, databases, pipelines, and ML systems.

What we're looking for

  • Must have a BSc in Computer Science or equivalent practical experience.
  • Proficiency in Python is required, with familiarity in PHP, Node.js, or Ruby.
  • Experience operating cloud-native compute on large scales using AWS (EC2, Kubernetes) and potentially Azure or GCP.
  • Experience deploying and operating ML inference pipelines using SageMaker, OpenAI, Bedrock, or similar tools.
  • Experience with vulnerability management and automated AMI/golden-image lifecycle management at scale.
  • Strong debugging skills for distributed systems and infrastructure toolchains including provisioning and container orchestration.
  • Understanding of how software and systems integrate to operate internet-hosted applications.
  • Willingness to participate in an on-call rotation.

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