Senior DB Reliability Engineer: Scale & Automation

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

Job summary

Adobe’s Database Reliability Engineering (DBRE) team is seeking a Senior Database Reliability Engineer (Individual Contributor) to own and scale database platforms across global services. You will drive reliability, performance, and resilience, partnering with engineering teams and cloud providers to shape architecture and platform strategy.

You will build automated capabilities, observability, and self-healing operations, and lead during production events while advancing modernization and

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience required.
• 7+ years operating highly available database platforms at scale.
• Hands-on with two+ databases from list (MongoDB, Cassandra, MySQL, PostgreSQL, etc.).
• Experience on AWS and/or Azure, plus managed services like RDS, DynamoDB, Cosmos DB.
• Proven leadership in database modernization and migrations.
• Familiarity with IaC and automation tools (Terraform, Chef, Ansible).
• Strong Linux, networking, and Python scripting abilities.

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 platform design

Cloud automation

Observability

IaC / CI/CD

Python scripting

Linux fundamentals

Kubernetes & Docker

Performance tuning

Data modeling

AI-assisted development

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science or related field

Tools

MongoDB

Cassandra

MySQL

PostgreSQL

Percona XtraDB Cluster

MariaDB Galera Cluster

AWS

Azure

Amazon RDS

Keyspaces

DynamoDB

Cosmos DB

MongoDB Atlas

Terraform

Chef

Ansible

Kubernetes

Docker

Python

Job description

Adobe’s Database Reliability Engineering (DBRE) team is seeking a Senior Database Reliability Engineer (Individual Contributor) to own and scale database platforms across global services. You will drive reliability, performance, and resilience, partnering with engineering teams and cloud providers to shape architecture and platform strategy.

You will build automated capabilities, observability, and self-healing operations, and lead during production events while advancing modernization and