Senior Site Reliability Engineer
Adobe · San Jose, CA · 3 days ago
Engineering$208k–$302k/yrFull-time
About The Role
Project Graph is a new creative system that combines first and third-party AI models, Adobe tools, and custom interactive components inside a visual, designer-friendly node graph editor. The services team focuses on developing HTTP APIs for managing Graph plugins, their versioning, publishing, access control and search, and an async compute platform for running Graphs on the cloud.
What you'll do
- Define and enforce Service Level Objectives (SLOs), Service Level Indicators (SLIs), and error budgets for Project Graph's HTTP APIs and async compute platform.
- Build and maintain observability—metrics, logging, tracing, and alerting—so issues are caught and diagnosed quickly.
- Lead incident response, run blameless postmortems, and drive the follow-up work that prevents recurrence.
- Improve the reliability and scalability of an async job scheduling system built on top of Kubernetes and Postgres.
- Maintain and improve CI/CD systems to keep delivery fast, safe, and reliable.
- Own database data protection, backup, and resilience—including backup strategy, recovery testing, and disaster recovery planning.
- Design and implement cloud infrastructure and automation to meet reliability, performance, and cost goals.
- Reduce operational toil through tooling and automation, and partner with developers to build reliability in from the start.
- Participate in an on-call rotation.
What you need to succeed
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience in Computer Science.
- 5-10 years of experience in site reliability engineering, infrastructure, or backend software development with a strong operational focus.
- Expertise with Kubernetes in production, including scaling, troubleshooting, and tuning.
- Expertise with Docker and containerization.
- Strong experience with bash and CI/CD tools, like CircleCI.
- Strong hands-on experience in at least one server-side language; we use Node.js/TypeScript.
- Experience operating data stores such as Postgres, Redis, or similar in production; we run on AWS Aurora (Postgres-compatible).
- Experience with database backup, resilience, and disaster recovery—designing backup strategies, testing recovery, and meeting RPO/RTO targets.
- Experience with Terraform and AWS.
- Strong experience with observability tooling (metrics, logging, distributed tracing) and alerting.
- Familiarity with HTTP API security.
- A track record of incident response and a systematic, blameless approach to learning from failures.
- An interest in and ability to learn new technologies.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills; can effectively articulate complex ideas and influence others through well-reasoned explanations.