Senior Software Development Engineer, Observability

Adobe

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Seattle, WASan Francisco, CASan Jose, CA
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39 days ago
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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

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TL;DR · Senior Software Development Engineer, Observability

The Senior Software Development Engineer, Observability joins the team responsible for building infrastructure and tooling for next-generation products. This role focuses on designing and implementing AI-powered observability to improve platform visibility, reliability, and developer productivity. You will build tools, dashboards, and libraries that utilize telemetry, metrics, logs, and distributed traces to accelerate root cause analysis and issue detection. Key responsibilities include standardizing observability patterns, documenting standards, and integrating monitoring into continuous delivery pipelines. The position requires proficiency in JavaScript, TypeScript, Python, and Go, along with experience in web and mobile development. You will work with technologies such as OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, Grafana, Splunk, NewRelic, DataDog, and Kubernetes. The work involves solving complex operational problems by creating intelligent, automated workflows for proactive system diagnostics.

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What you'll do

  • Design and implement AI-powered observability using telemetry, metrics, logs, and distributed traces.
  • Integrate modern AI and observability technologies to improve platform visibility and reliability.
  • Develop and test observability libraries and tools for the platform's apps and services.
  • Build tools and dashboards to improve infrastructure transparency, debuggability, and reliability.
  • Standardize observability patterns, tools, and dashboard setups across the organization.
  • Document observability standards and provide guidance to engineering teams.
  • Integrate observability into the automation infrastructure across different stages of continuous delivery.
  • Contribute to the development and maintenance of the overall Adobe monitoring platform.

What we're looking for

  • Bachelor's or advanced degree in computer science or equivalent experience.
  • 5+ years of experience working on observability, telemetry, or similar.
  • Experience building for web and mobile (iOS/Android) platforms.
  • Experience in JavaScript (client/server), TypeScript, Python, Go, and associated mobile development frameworks.
  • Experience with modern, continuous development techniques and build pipelines (CI/CD, Jenkins, Git, Artifactory, Kubernetes, Ethos).
  • Relevant knowledge of tools like Splunk, NewRelic, DataDog, OpenTelemetry, Loki, AppDynamics, Prometheus, AWS, and Grafana.
  • Experience integrating AI capabilities with observability platforms, telemetry pipelines, or incident management workflows (preferred).
  • Experience architecting or contributing to AI assistants, copilots, or agentic platforms used in production environments (preferred).

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