Senior Site Reliability Engineer – Observability

Join a globally diverse team that both builds and finds best-of-breed tools to bring critical Observability services to all of Adobe. Our team embodies DevOps, as our responsibilities range from crafting new tools and UIs to maintaining and supporting one of the largest logging deployments in the industry, in partnership with other observability tools.

We’re a close-knit team dedicated to providing a robust platform, supporting both Adobe’s engineering teams and each other. We need a new Developer to assist in building Adobe’s observability strategy.

If you enjoy solving complex tasks where it’s easy to draw a line from your efforts to real accomplishments, come talk to us.

Job Requirements

• 7 to 10+ years production level experience with distributed applications at scale in public and/or private cloud

• Experience architecting and implementing large-scale Observability platforms

Must Have

• Experience with internally hosted logging systems like Splunk, ClickHouse, Loki, Elastic, assisting clients and improving environment performance and stability

• Demonstrated ability to drive ingestion cost optimization through data-driven analysis, pipeline guardrails, and direct engagement with customer engineering teams to reduce unnecessary log volume

• Experience with OpenTelemetry — including collector configuration, pipelines, and instrumentation — as a core requirement given Adobe's OTel-native observability strategy

• AI agent development and experience integrating AI workflows into large-scale deployments; ability to build AI-assisted workflows to surface actionable insights from large log datasets and automate routine user interactions

• Experience architecting distributed environments with thousands of users

• Programming experience with languages like Go, Python; experience building integrations and applications to large-scale Observability environments

• Experience designing and implementing systems for fault tolerance, scalability and stability

• Experience developing, deploying and running distributed applications on cloud platforms; experience with container and orchestration technologies (Docker, Kubernetes)

• Comfortable owning on-call coverage across a multi-tool observability stack, with the ability to triage and resolve issues across platforms beyond primary area of expertise

• Ensure the highest level of up-time and Quality of Service (QoS) to Adobe's customers through operational excellence

• Knowledge in defining service level objectives (SLOs) and service level indicators (SLIs) to represent and measure service quality

• Knowledge of (public and/or private) cloud deployments

• Collaborate with SRE and Engineering/Product teams in driving critical initiatives

• Experience in designing and maintaining production monitoring systems

• Experience in solving performance and stability issues using a wide variety of tools

• Excellent communicator in and across teams, driving projects to completion

• Impacts the organization through contribution to technical direction and strategic decisions

Good to Have

• Experience evaluating and prototyping alternative storage/processing backends (e.g., ClickHouse, Loki)

• Experience with other Observability tooling like Grafana, Cortex, and Tempo

• Promote the DevOps/SRE approach

About Adobe

Adobe empowers everyone to create through innovative platforms and tools that unleash creativity, productivity and personalized customer experiences. Adobe’s industry-leading offerings including Adobe Acrobat Studio, Adobe Express, Adobe Firefly, Creative Cloud, Adobe Experience Platform, Adobe Experience Manager, and GenStudio enable people and businesses to turn ideas into impact, powered by AI and driven by human ingenuity.

Our 30,000+ employees worldwide are creating the future and raising the bar as we drive the next decade of growth. We’re on a mission to hire the very best and believe in creating a company culture where all employees are empowered to make an impact. At Adobe, we believe that great ideas can come from anywhere in the organization. The next big idea could be yours. 

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