Senior Site Reliability Engineer

Adobe

Quick summary

Work type
On-site
Location
San JoseSeattle, WASan Francisco, CA
Salary
$208,300–$301,600 / yr
Posted
2 days ago

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Salary context

Above market

How this pay compares to similar roles

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This role $255k
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This role pays more than 93% of similar roles. Most pay $142,450–$198,850 — the shaded band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $255k versus about $171k for comparable roles.

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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 325 open roles on FindRole.

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TL;DR · Senior Site Reliability Engineer

As a Senior Site Reliability Engineer on the services team, you will ensure the availability and performance of HTTP APIs for managing Graph plugins and an async compute platform. Your day-to-day responsibilities include defining service level objectives, building observability systems, leading incident response, and improving job scheduling reliability on Kubernetes and Postgres. You’ll also maintain CI/CD pipelines, manage database backups, and design cloud infrastructure to meet cost and performance goals. The role requires expertise in Kubernetes, Docker, Node.js/TypeScript, AWS Aurora, Terraform, and observability tools like metrics, logging, and distributed tracing. This position is crucial for a growing ecosystem of community-built tools, focusing on reliability and scalability at scale within Adobe’s infrastructure.

What you'll do

  • Define and enforce SLOs, SLIs, and error budgets for HTTP APIs.
  • Build and maintain observability tools for quick issue detection and diagnosis.
  • Lead incident response and drive follow-up work to prevent recurrence.
  • Improve reliability and scalability of an async job scheduling system on Kubernetes.
  • Design and implement cloud infrastructure to meet performance and cost goals.
  • Own database protection, backup strategies, and disaster recovery planning.

What we're looking for

  • 5-10 years of experience in site reliability engineering or backend software development with a strong operational focus.
  • Expertise with Kubernetes, Docker, and containerization for production environments.
  • Strong hands-on experience with bash scripting and CI/CD tools like CircleCI.
  • Experience operating data stores such as Postgres and familiarity with AWS Aurora.
  • Hands-on experience with observability tooling including metrics, logging, distributed tracing, and alerting.
  • Expertise in designing database backup strategies, testing recovery, and meeting RPO/RTO targets.
  • Familiarity with Terraform and AWS cloud infrastructure.

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