Architect, Site Reliability Engineering

Adobe•San Jose, CA

About The Position

Adobe’s RealTime Customer Data Platform (RTCDP) powers personalized customer experiences for some of the world’s largest brands. As a Senior SRE Technical Lead / Architect, you will play a critical role in ensuring RTCDP’s reliability, scalability, and operational excellence at a global scale. This is a high ownership, high impact role that bridges production operations (Day2 ownership) and core datastore engineering. You’ll shape how RTCDP is built, operated, and scaled—while directly owning production reliability for one of Adobe’s most customer- visible platforms. At Adobe, you’ll work on products that reach millions of users worldwide, alongside talented engineers who care deeply about quality, reliability, and innovation. This role offers the chance to own critical systems, influence architecture at scale, and help shape the future of RTCDP. Adobe empowers everyone to create through innovative platforms and tools that unleash creativity, productivity and personalized customer experiences. Adobe’s 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 30,000+ employees worldwide are creating the future and raising the bar as we drive the next decade of growth. We’re 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. Let’s Adobe together At Adobe, we believe in creating a company culture where all employees are empowered to make an impact. Learn more about Adobe life, including our values and culture, focus on people, purpose and community, Adobe for All, comprehensive benefits programs, the stories we tell, the customers we serve, and how you can help us advance our mission of empowering everyone to create.

Requirements

Senior SRE, infrastructure, or platform engineer with 10+ yrs of experience running largescale distributed systems
Strong background in datastores, reliability engineering, and automation
Proven experience leading production incidents and driving operational improvements
Comfortable operating with high ownership, ambiguity, and scale
Passion for building resilient systems and mentoring others

Responsibilities

Own Production Reliability
Own day2 production reliability for RTCDP, ensuring availability, performance, and durability aligned with SLOs.
Serve as a technical lead during incidents, driving mitigation, recovery, and post incident analysis for SEV3 through SEV1 (CSO) events.
Improve incident response processes, on-call health, and operational readiness.
Partner with product and platform teams to ensure production ready launches and regional expansions.
Lead Core Datastore Strategy
Provide technical leadership for RTCDP’s core datastores, including: Aerospike FoundationDB Postgres CosmosDB DynamoDB
Drive reliability, scalability, upgrade, backup/restore, and disaster recovery strategies.
Lead or influence datastore automation (provisioning, scaling, upgrades, benchmarking, lifecycle management).
Contribute to cost optimization and efficiency improvements through rightsizing and architectural enhancements.
Architect for Scale & Automation
Design and build automation first solutions to reduce toil and improve system safety.
Influence architecture decisions that improve reliability, scalability, and operability.
Build and evolve monitoring, alerting, and observability focused on real customer impact.
Promote consistent operational patterns across services, teams, and regions.
Technical Leadership & Influence
Act as a senior technical authority within the SRE organization.
Mentor engineers and influence teams across geographies without relying on direct ownership.
Partner closely with engineering, infrastructure, and security teams.
Champion strong SRE and DevOps principles: ownership, automation, error budgets, and continuous improvement.