Senior Database Reliability Engineer

Adobe

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Work type
On-site
Location
San Jose, CA
Salary
$177,900–$257,550 / yr
Posted
39 days ago
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Confirmed live yesterday

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Above market

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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.

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TL;DR · Senior Database Reliability Engineer

Sr. Database Reliability Engineer joins the Database Reliability Engineering team to ensure the reliability, scalability, and performance of global database platforms. This individual contributor role involves building self-service automated capabilities for provisioning and operation while driving architecture evolution through collaboration with partners and cloud providers. The candidate will manage observability via monitoring and tracing, lead technical responses during production events, and perform root cause analysis to improve system resilience. Key technologies include MongoDB, Cassandra, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Percona XtraDB Cluster, or MariaDB Galera Cluster, alongside managed services like Amazon RDS, DynamoDB, and Cosmos DB. Required skills include Infrastructure as Code using Terraform, Chef, or Ansible; containerization with Kubernetes and Docker; Linux systems; and Python for automation. The role addresses the challenge of managing high-availability distributed systems, including replication, consistency models, and multi-region deployments.

What you'll do

  • Manage the reliability, scalability, and performance of global database platforms.
  • Drive the evolution of database architecture and platform strategy with partners and providers.
  • Build automated self-service capabilities for provisioning and operating database infrastructure.
  • Establish advanced observability through monitoring, tracing, logging, and actionable insights.
  • Lead technical responses during production events to drive mitigation and root cause analysis.
  • Implement automation and self-healing systems to improve long-term system resiliency.
  • Provide operational stewardship for business-critical services in a follow-the-sun support model.

What we're looking for

  • Bachelor's degree in computer science or a related technical field, or equivalent experience.
  • 7+ years of experience operating highly available, critical database platforms at scale.
  • Hands-on experience with at least two of MongoDB, Cassandra, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Percona XtraDB Cluster, or MariaDB Galera Cluster.
  • Experience operating database platforms on AWS and/or Azure, including managed services like RDS, DynamoDB, or Cosmos DB.
  • Proven experience leading database modernization and migration initiatives.
  • Proficiency in Python or similar scripting languages for automation and operational tooling.
  • Strong experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools such as Terraform, Chef, or Ansible.
  • Expertise in distributed systems, performance engineering, capacity planning, and containerized platforms like Kubernetes and Docker.

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