Architect, Site Reliability Engineering

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San Jose, CA - USA

profile Yearly Salary: $ 173500 - 331050
Posted on: 6 days ago
Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

AdobesRealTime Customer Data Platform (RTCDP)powers personalized customer experiences for some of the worlds largest brands. As aSenior SRE Technical Lead / Architect you will play a critical role in ensuring RTCDPs reliability scalability and operational excellence ata globalscale.

This is ahigh ownershiphigh impactrolethat bridgesproduction operations (Day2 ownership)andcore datastore engineering.Youllshape how RTCDP is builtoperated and scaledwhile directly owning production reliability for one of Adobes mostcustomer- visibleplatforms.

WhatYoullDo

Own Production Reliability

  • Ownday2 production reliabilityfor RTCDP ensuring availability performance and durability aligned with SLOs.

  • Serve asa technicallead during incidents driving mitigation recovery andpost incidentanalysis for SEV3 through SEV1 (CSO) events.

  • Improve incident response processes on-callhealth and operational readiness.

  • Partner with product and platform teams to ensureproduction readylaunchesandregional expansions.

Lead Core Datastore Strategy

  • Provide technical leadership for RTCDPscore datastores including:

  • Aerospike

  • FoundationDB

  • Postgres

  • CosmosDB

  • DynamoDB

  • Drive reliability scalability upgrade backup/restore and disaster recovery strategies.

  • Lead or influencedatastore automation(provisioning scaling upgrades benchmarking lifecycle management).

  • Contribute tocost optimization and efficiency improvementsthrough rightsizing and architectural enhancements.

Architect for Scale & Automation

  • Design and buildautomation firstsolutionsto reduce toil and improve system safety.

  • Influence architecture decisions that improvereliability scalability and operability.

  • Build and evolvemonitoring alerting and observabilityfocused on real customer impact.

  • Promote consistent operational patterns across services teams and regions.

Technical Leadership & Influence

  • Act as asenior technical authoritywithin the SRE organization.

  • Mentor engineers and influence teams across geographies without relying on direct ownership.

  • Partner closely with engineering infrastructure and security teams.

  • Champion strongSRE and DevOps principles: ownership automation error budgets and continuous improvement.

What Makes This Role Unique

  • Broad scope acrossRun &OperateandCore Datastore architecture

  • Architect levelinfluencewith direct production ownership

  • Real impact oncustomer reliability platform scale and cost efficiency

  • Opportunity to help definehow RTCDP operates globally not just respond to incidents

WhatWereLooking For

  • Senior SRE infrastructure or platform engineer with 10 yrs of experience runninglargescale distributed systems

  • Strong background indatastores reliability engineering and automation

  • Proven experience leadingproduction incidentsand driving operational improvements

  • Comfortable operating withhigh ownership ambiguity and scale

  • Passion for building resilient systems and mentoring others

Why Adobe

At Adobeyoullwork on products that reach millions of users worldwide alongside talented engineers who care deeply about quality reliability and innovation. This role offers the chance toown critical systems influence architecture at scale and help shape the future of RTCDP.

About Adobe

Adobe empowers everyone to create through innovative platforms and tools that unleash creativity productivity and personalized customer experiences. Adobes 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 30000 employees worldwide are creating the future and raising the bar as we drive the next decade of growth. Were 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.


Lets Adobe together

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Expected Pay Range:

Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several U.S. geographic markets and we pay differently based on those defined markets. The U.S. pay range for this positionis $$331050 annually. Paywithin this range varies by work locationand may also depend on job-related knowledge skillsand experience. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for the job location during the hiring process.

In California the pay range for this position is $228600 - $331050

At Adobe for sales roles starting salaries are expressed as total target compensation (TTC base commission) and short-term incentives are in the form of sales commission plans. Non-sales roles starting salaries are expressed as base salary and short-term incentives are in the form of the Annual Incentive Plan (AIP).

In addition certain roles may be eligible for long-term incentives in the form of a new hire equity award.

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AdobesRealTime Customer Data Platform (RTCDP)powers personalized customer experiences for some of the worlds largest brands. As aSenior SRE Technical Lead / Architect you will play a critical role in ensuring RTCDPs reliability scalability and operational excellence ata globalscale.This is ahigh own...
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