Our Company

Changing the world through digital experiences is what Adobe’s all about. We give everyone—from emerging artists to global brands—everything they need to design and deliver exceptional digital experiences! We’re passionate about empowering people to create beautiful and powerful images, videos, and apps, and transform how companies interact with customers across every screen. 

We’re on a mission to hire the very best and are committed to creating exceptional employee experiences where everyone is respected and has access to equal opportunity. We realize that new ideas can come from everywhere in the organization, and we know the next big idea could be yours!

The Challenge 

Adobe Technology Services organization builds platform and client services that are foundational building blocks for many other Adobe products and services. Areas of focus include: identity, security, cloud storage, e-commerce, workflow management synchronization, customer facing web apps, scalability, infrastructure management and search, just to name a few. Our mission is to build highly scalable, available and resilient services that fulfill the business objectives of Adobe.

The Database Reliability Engineering (DBRE) team within this organization has an exciting and challenging mission: Build, deploy, operate, scale and maintain database systems for customer facing Adobe SaaS solutions used by billions of users worldwide. Adobe is looking for a DBRE architect with strong hands-on experience, focused on critical, highly available, high-throughput databases and reliability aspects.

What you'll Do 

• Work on reliability and performance aspects for core database infrastructures that allow Adobe products to scale
• Ensure the highest level of uptime and Quality of Service (QoS) for Adobe’s critical database environments through operational excellence
• Partner with Engineering teams and database vendors on roadmap planning and architectural discussions to ensure we have rock solid architectures in place to scale for the future
• Implement solutions for automating deployment, provisioning and managing large-scale database environments
• Improve observability by implementing smart monitoring, tracing and logging.
• Act as main point of contact for production incidents, perform root cause analysis, identify and resolve underlying problem patterns, while working towards develop automated and self-healing solutions

What you need to succeed 

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related technical field
• At least 7 years relevant production experience in supporting at scale, highly available, mission-critical database environments.  Deep understanding in all areas such as backups, replication, failover, DevOps for DB (IaaC, CI/CD), observability and debuggability required
• Proficiency in at least two of the following open-source database management systems: MongoDB, Cassandra, MySQL, Percona XtraDB Cluster, MariaDB Galera Cluster, PostgreSQL
• Experience working with hyper-scale cloud providers (AWS and/or Azure, GCP) and running at scale database environments in virtual computing environments (Amazon EC2, Azure VM, etc)
• Experience with Cloud database technologies such as AWS RDS/DynamoDB/Keyspaces, Azure SQL/CosmosDB
• Deep understanding of cluster management areas, such as scaling, consistency tuning, replication, and multi-datacenter configuration
• Experience in performance monitoring and storage performance optimization, tuning database server configurations, queries, and indexes
• Strong data modeling and data structure design skills
• Exposure to containerization platforms (Kubernetes/Docker etc)
• Good understanding of Linux OS concepts and of Linux and Unix Shell
• Proficiency in any of the programming language (e.g. Python/PHP/Ruby/Golang)
• Strong written and oral communication skills with a high degree of comfort speaking with developers, vendors and leadership