Senior Database Reliability Engineer: Scale & Automation

Adobe Inc.; San Jose (CA); On-site; USD 178,000 - 258,000; Full time

Job summary

Adobe Inc. is seeking an experienced Senior Database Reliability Engineer to own the reliability, scalability, and performance of Adobe’s database platforms, enabling highly available services globally.

You will collaborate with engineering teams and cloud providers to evolve architecture and automation, building self-service capabilities and robust observability. You will lead production incident response, root cause analysis, and long-term resiliency improvements, while ensuring operational

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or a related technical field, or equivalent experience.
• 7+ years operating highly available, critical database platforms at scale.
• Experience with MongoDB, Cassandra, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Percona XtraDB Cluster, or MariaDB Galera Cluster.
• Experience operating database platforms on AWS and/or Azure.
• Hands-on experience with managed database services such as Amazon RDS, Keyspaces, DynamoDB, Azure SQL, Cosmos DB, and MongoDB Atlas.
• Proven experience leading database modernization and migration initiatives.
• Demonstrated ability to effectively employ AI-assisted development tools while maintaining high standards for code quality, security, reliability, and operational excellence.
• Strong experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and automation tools such as Terraform, Chef, or Ansible.
• Deep understanding of distributed systems, including scaling, replication, consistency models, fault tolerance, and multi-region deployments.
• Expertise in database performance engineering, capacity planning, query tuning, index optimization, and storage performance.
• Strong data modeling, schema design, and data architecture skills.
• Experience with containerized and cloud-native platforms, including Kubernetes and Docker.
• Strong Linux systems and networking fundamentals.
• Proficiency in Python or similar scripting languages for automation and operational tooling.

Responsibilities

• Own the reliability, scalability, and performance of Adobe’s database platforms, enabling highly available and resilient services on a global scale.
• Drive the evolution of database architecture and platform strategy through collaboration with engineering teams, cloud providers, and database technology partners.
• Build self‑service and automated platform capabilities that simplify the deployment, provisioning, and operation of database infrastructure.
• Establish best‑in‑class observability through monitoring, tracing, logging, and actionable insights that improve service reliability and outstanding operational performance.
• Serve as a technical leader during production events, driving rapid mitigation, deep root cause analysis, and long‑term resiliency improvements through automation and self‑healing systems.
• Provide operational stewardship for business‑critical database services through participation in a cross‑regional follow‑the‑sun support model.

Skills

DB platforms reliability

Automation & tooling

AI-assisted development

Distributed systems

Root cause analysis

Performance tuning

Data modeling

Cloud architecture

Education

Bachelor’s degree in CS or related field

Tools

Terraform

Chef

Ansible

MongoDB

Cassandra

MySQL

PostgreSQL

RDS

Keyspaces

DynamoDB

Cosmos DB

MongoDB Atlas

Kubernetes

Docker

Job description

Adobe Inc. is seeking an experienced Senior Database Reliability Engineer to own the reliability, scalability, and performance of Adobe’s database platforms, enabling highly available services globally.

You will collaborate with engineering teams and cloud providers to evolve architecture and automation, building self-service capabilities and robust observability. You will lead production incident response, root cause analysis, and long-term resiliency improvements, while ensuring operational