Senior 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 team is looking for an
experienced Database Reliability Engineer (DBRE), passioned about
SRE principles to join our team.
 

As part of Developer Platforms organization, DBREs complements the
SRE teams by providing database operational support and architectural
guidance to cloud native teams that are building customer-facing
services. Our focus revolves around designing, testing, deploying and
operating datastores with scale and reliability requirements.
 

What you'll Do
 

• Work on reliability and performance aspects for core database infrastructure pieces that allow Adobe products to scale
• Ensure the highest level of uptime and Quality of Service (QoS) to the backend of Adobe’s mission-critical services
• Implement solutions for automating deployment, provisioning and operating large-scale database environments
• Use domain expertise to support development teams, providing guidance and database architecture solutions
• Improve observability by implementing smart monitoring, tracing and logging.
• Participate in a cross-regional on-call rotation using a follow-the-sun model
• Act as main point of contact for production incidents, perform root cause analysis, identify and resolve underlying problem patterns, while working towards develop automated and self-healing solutions
• Work in a dynamic, fast-paced environment with distributed teams and inter-dependent services

What you need to succeed

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related technical field
• At least 3 years relevant production experience in supporting at scale, highly available, mission-critical environments running at least one of the following open-source database management systems:
• NOSQL - MongoDB, Cassandra
• RDBMS - MySQL, Percona XtraDB Cluster, MariaDB Galera Cluster,
• PostgreSQL
• Experience working with hyperscale cloud providers (AWS and/or
• Azure, GCP) and running at scale database environments in virtual computing environments (Amazon EC2, Azure VM, etc)
• Experience with infrastructure automation and configuration management tools such as Chef, Ansible, Puppet, Terraform
• Deep understanding of cluster management areas, such as scaling, consistency tuning, replication, and multi-datacenter configuration
• Experience in securing, monitoring, capacity planning, full-proof DR, backup & recovery for distributed database systems
• Strong understanding of high availability strategies, horizontal partitioning, clustering
• Experience in performance monitoring and storage performance optimization, tuning database server configurations, queries, and indexes
• Strong data modeling and data structure design skills
• Good understanding of Linux OS concepts and of Linux and Unix Shell
• Experience with monitoring software such as Prometheus, Grafana, New Relic
• Proficiency in any of the scripting language (e.g. Python /PHP/Perl/ Ruby)
• Intellectual curiosity to pursue the unknown and to continuously learn.
• Good social skills and desire to work in a dynamic and fast-paced environment
• Able to work independently with minimum need or supervision.
• Exposure to any other open-source DBMS solutions

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