Database Reliability Engineer

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 Opportunity

Adobe’s Database Reliability Engineering (DBRE) team has an exciting and challenging mission : Build, deploy, operate, scale, and maintain database systems for customers facing Adobe SaaS solutions used by millions of users worldwide.

We are seeking an experienced DBRE to join us in building database services that will help define the future of Creative Cloud and Adobe’s Digital Media business.

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 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 developing automated and self-healing solutions

Participate in a cross-regional on-call rotation using follow-the-sun model.

What you need to succeed

Bachelor's degree in computer science or related technical field

At least 5 years relevant production experience in supporting at scale,highly available, mission-critical database environments.

Deep understanding in all areas such as database backups, replication, security, DevOps for databases (IaC, CI / CD), observability, and disaster recovery.

Proficiency in at least two of the following open-source database management systems : MongoDB, Cassandra, MySQL, PerconaXtraDB Cluster, MariaDB Galera Cluster, PostgreSQL

Experience working with hyper-scale cloud providers (AWS and / or Azure, GCP) and running at scale database environments on virtual computing environments (Amazon EC2, Azure VM)

Experience with Cloud database technologies such as AWS RDS, AWS Keyspaces, Azure SQL / CosmosDB, MongoDB Atlas, and Datastax Astra.

Database migration experience

Experience with infrastructure automation and configuration management tools such as Chef, Terraform

Deep understanding of cluster management areas, such as scaling, consistency tuning, replication, and multi-datacenter configuration

Experience in performance monitoring, storage performance optimization, tuning database server configurations, queries, and indexes

Strong data modeling and data structure design skills

Exposure to containerization platforms (Kubernetes / Docker)

Good understanding of Linux OS concepts

Proficiency in any of the scripting language (Python / Perl / Ruby)

Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several geographic markets, and we pay differently based on those defined markets.

The pay range for this position is $90,500 $196,500 annually. Pay within this range varies by work location and may also depend on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience.

Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for the job location during the hiring process.

At Adobe, for sales roles starting salaries are expressed as total target compensation (TTC base + commission), and short-term incentives are in the form of sales commission plans.

Non-sales roles starting salaries are expressed as base salary and short-term incentives are in the form of the Annual Incentive Plan (AIP).

In addition, certain roles may be eligible for long-term incentives in the form of a new hire equity award.