Senior Site Reliability Engineer - Observability

The Team

We are a globally distributed team inside Adobe Developer Platforms. We own the observability platform Adobe's engineering ecosystem runs on – one of the largest logging deployments in the industry, spanning 50,000+ nodes, billions of OTel events daily, and an auth service we built in Go that handles 15,000 req/sec. Every Adobe engineer depends on what we ship.

We build it, we ship it, we run it.

The Opportunity

• Compose, build, and run Adobe's observability platform at scale
• Write Go and Python: extend OpenTelemetry Collector receivers, processors, and exporters, contribute to open-source, and build the internal services, APIs, and tooling around them
• Drive cost optimisation: analyse pipeline data, build guardrails, and engage engineering teams
• Build developer-facing tooling and services, including AI-powered insight from high-volume telemetry and observability for AI and agent-based systems
• Own SLOs and SLIs for a platform thousands of engineers rely on every day
• Own on-call, lead incident response for high-severity issues, and make every shift better than the last

What you'll Do

• Strong, hands-on Go and/or Python. Our platform is predominantly Go — the OpenTelemetry Collector, Cortex, Prometheus, and Kubernetes all are — and Python carries much of our tooling. You should be able to contribute production code in at least one, and read the other
• 5–8+ years building and owning production software at scale, ideally platform or infrastructure products used by other engineers
• Build, code review, and automated testing coordinated into how you ship, not a separate phase
• Familiarity with OpenTelemetry — not just configuring collectors, but extending them and instrumenting applications with the SDKs
• Working knowledge of large-scale logging infrastructure — Splunk, ClickHouse, New Relic, Prometheus, LangSmith
• Experience developing, deploying, and running distributed applications on cloud platforms; experience with container and orchestration technologies (Docker, Kubernetes)
• Comfortable owning on-call across a multi-tool observability stack, including leading Sev 1/2 incident response

What you need to succeed

• Experience evaluating and prototyping alternative Observability platforms, both commercial and open-source
• Experience with other Observability tooling like Grafana, Cortex, ElasticSearch, DataDog, VictoriaMetrics, Mimir
• TypeScript/React — we ship an observability plugin in Adobe's Developer Home (based on Backstage)
• Experience instrumenting AI/LLM or agent-based systems, nice to have

About Adobe

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.

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