Join a globally diverse team that both builds and finds best-of-breed tools to bring critical Observability services to all of Adobe. Our team embodies DevOps, as our responsibilities range from crafting new tools and UIs to maintaining and supporting one of the largest logging deployments in the industry, in partnership with other observability tools.
We’re a close-knit team dedicated to providing a robust platform, supporting both Adobe’s engineering teams and each other. We are looking for a DevOps Engineer to assist in building Adobe’s observability strategy.
If you enjoy solving complex tasks where it’s easy to draw a line from your efforts to real accomplishments, come talk to us.
Job Requirements
- 7 to 10+ years production level experience with distributed applications at scale in public and/or private cloud
- Experience architecting and implementing large-scale Observability platforms
Must Have
- Experience with internally hosted logging systems like Splunk, ClickHouse, Loki, Elastic, assisting clients and improving environment performance and stability
- Demonstrated ability to drive ingestion cost optimization through data-driven analysis, pipeline guardrails, and direct engagement with customer engineering teams to reduce unnecessary log volume
- Experience with OpenTelemetry — including collector configuration, pipelines, and instrumentation — as a core requirement given Adobe's OTel-native observability strategy
- AI agent development and experience integrating AI workflows into large-scale deployments; ability to build AI-assisted workflows to surface actionable insights from large log datasets and automate routine user interactions
- Experience architecting distributed environments with thousands of users
- Programming experience with languages like Go, Python; experience building integrations and applications to large-scale Observability environments
- Experience designing and implementing systems for fault tolerance, scalability and stability
- Experience developing, deploying and running distributed applications on cloud platforms; experience with container and orchestration technologies (Docker, Kubernetes)
- Comfortable owning on-call coverage across a multi-tool observability stack, with the ability to triage and resolve issues across platforms beyond primary area of expertise
- Ensure the highest level of up-time and Quality of Service (QoS) to Adobe's customers through operational excellence
- Knowledge in defining service level objectives (SLOs) and service level indicators (SLIs) to represent and measure service quality
- Knowledge of (public and/or private) cloud deployments
- Collaborate with SRE and Engineering/Product teams in driving critical initiatives
- Experience in designing and maintaining production monitoring systems
- Experience in solving performance and stability issues using a wide variety of tools
- Excellent communicator in and across teams, driving projects to completion
- Impacts the organization through contribution to technical direction and strategic decisions
Good to Have
- Experience evaluating and prototyping alternative storage/processing backends (e.g., ClickHouse, Loki)
- Experience with other Observability tooling like Grafana, Cortex, and Tempo
- Promote the DevOps/SRE approach
About Adobe
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