The Opportunity
We are seeking a Senior SRE (Site Reliability Engineer) to help compose, build, and operate highly scalable, secure, and resilient cloud platforms.
We are redefining this role to focus on product and platform engineering. This position is a core builder role within the Developer Platform organization. It is responsible for crafting and evolving cloud platforms as internal products with clear customers, roadmaps, and outcomes.
The ideal candidate thinks like a product engineer first: crafting scalable, secure, and reliable platforms that empower thousands of engineers to move faster with less operational burden. Reliability, security, and operability are built into the platform, not bolted on. This role is critical to preparing the organization for the next generation of cloud-native and AI-enabled platforms.
What you'll Do
Cloud Platform Engineering
- Own platform capabilities end-to-end: architecture, APIs, operability, lifecycle management, and developer experience.
- Translate reliability, scalability, and security requirements into reusable platform primitives and services.
- Drive platform adoption by making the "right path" the easiest path for product teams.
Reliability
- Define reliability, availability, and performance targets as outstanding product requirements.
- Build standardized reliability patterns (golden paths, reference architectures, guardrails) that product teams inherit by default.
- Build for failure through multi-region architectures, graceful degradation, and automated recovery.
Automation & Platform Enablement
- Build self-service workflows, tooling, and APIs that abstract infrastructure complexity away from application teams.
- Apply Infrastructure as Code and policy-as-code to guarantee consistency, safety, and scalability.
- Integrate CI/CD, provisioning, and operational workflows into a cohesive developer experience.
Security & Compliance
- Embed secure-by-design principles into infrastructure architecture and delivery.
- Implement secure networking, encryption, secret management, and access controls.
- Partner with security teams to maintain compliance with enterprise and regulatory standards.
- Proactively reduce risk through architecture reviews and security hardening.
AI-Enabled Platforms
- Contribute to platform capabilities that leverage AI for operational intelligence and automation.
- Develop scalable foundations that support the gradual addition of diagnostics, remediation, and insights based on intelligent systems into the platform.
Cross-Team Leadership & Influence
- Work closely with product engineering teams to understand difficulties and evolve platform capabilities accordingly.
- Act as a technical leader and advisor on cloud-native build, reliability, and platform usage.
- Produce high-quality build documents and reference implementations that scale knowledge across the organization.
What You Need to Succeed
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.
- 10+ years of experience in platform engineering, cloud infrastructure, SRE, or large-scale distributed systems.
- Strong experience crafting and operating AWS-based platforms.
- Deep understanding of Kubernetes, container platforms, and cloud-native architectures.
- Proven ability to build systems with reliability, security, and operability as core development constraints.
- Strong programming skills (Python, Go, Java, or similar).
- Practical experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform or equivalent).
- Experience building shared platforms or internal products consumed by multiple teams.
- Ability to think in terms of systems, tradeoffs, and long-term platform evolution rather than short-term fixes.
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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Expected Pay Range:
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 $159,200 -- $301,600 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 $208,300 - $301,600
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.
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California:
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Colorado:
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