Senior Site Reliability Engineer - Ottawa - Adobe

Description

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

Engineering at is about more than just writing code - it's crafting products that inspire creativity and allow our users to do great work. We care deeply about how our products are built, how they look, how they feel, and how they function.

We're looking for an experienced site reliability engineer who will prioritize product engineering goals along with standard security and infrastructure methodologies to continually improve our application reliability and developer experience.

We obsess over performance, scalability, privacy, and security. Our engineers are using React (including Server Components), , Apollo Client, Typescript, GraphQL, Elixir, Python, Go, AWS services, K8s, Terraform, Postgres, CockroachDB, Argo, Github, and more.

Success in this role will result in a best-in-class application that enables our customers and our fellow engineers to do their best work.

What You'll Do

• Identifying, triaging, prioritizing, and facilitating the mitigation of application availability concerns, carefully balancing security, business, and customer needs while contributing to tools and processes that enrich our overall developer experience.
• Propose and implement projects for time‑saving automation and vital reliability measures, ensuring leads in availability and security.
• Partner with multi‑functional experts (Engineering, Product, Compliance, Legal, Security, etc.) to define customer‑centric solutions to infrastructure, security, and tooling needs.
• Define and refine operational practices, tooling, and runbooks and effectively communicate them across and Adobe.
• Evolve our CI/CD pipeline and application infrastructure to support our scaling and DORA metrics goals.
• Promote engineering excellence with a focus on performance, scalability, and security.
• Model Adobe values within the team, partner organizations, and customers.

What You'll Need To Succeed

• Outstanding analytical skills with the ability to solve complex systems challenges and performance bottlenecks.
• Proficient knowledge of public cloud infrastructure, networking, architecture, and Linux as well as orchestration, monitoring, automation, and configuration management solutions.
• Practical knowledge of distributed service design and performance, including messaging protocols, caching, data residency, database operations, and observability.
• Passion for designing and evolving complex systems while also being able to support day‑to‑day infrastructure operations. We want someone who does not prefer one tool, but rather looks for the right tool for the job.
• A dedication to learning new techniques and technologies, then sharing ideas with your fellow engineers with mastery of breaking down, discussing, and communicating technical concepts.

Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several U.S. geographic markets, and we pay differently based on those defined markets. The U.S. pay range for this position is $139,000 – $257,550 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.

In California, the pay range for this position is $177,900 – $257,550. In New York, the pay range for this position is $177,900 – $257,550. In Washington, the pay range for this position is $161,700 – $234,150.

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.

State‑Specific Notices

California

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Colorado

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Massachusetts

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Equal Employment Opportunity

Adobe is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. We do not discriminate based on gender, race or color, ethnicity or national origin, age, disability, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, veteran status, or any other applicable characteristics protected by law. Learn more.

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