Senior Observability Developer

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