Sr Site Reliability Engineer, AI Platform Inference

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

We're looking for an outstanding, Site Reliability Engineer for Adobe’s AI Inference Platform, Adobe Firefly. You will be part of a team of Site Reliability Engineers closely working with the Engineering teams onbuilding, scaling, and securing the AI Platform. This enables the Firefly product teams to easily manage and deploy Machine Learning capabilities used by Adobe client applications.

The Applied Research groups from Adobe Research and other App Teams in Adobe will deploy thousands of models onto this platform in a variety of lifecycle stages (early research, development, productization, optimization, etc). This platform will offer ML model serving at scale, with high-cost efficiency, and on a wide variety of hardware platforms across multiple clouds.

What You'll Do

• Identify and implement methodologies and solutions to increase reliability, scalability, security, and efficiency.
• Ensure the highest uptime and Quality of Service (QoS) for Adobe’s customers through operational excellence.
• Define service level objectives (SLOs) and indicators (SLIs) to represent and measure service quality.
• Support and maintain globally distributed, multi-cloud (public and/or private) environments.
• Automate common, repeatable tasks at a large scale to streamline operational procedures.
• Identify areas to improve service resiliency through techniques such as chaos engineering, performance/load testing, etc.
• Coordinate with other Adobe platform teams and service providers (primarily AWS) to innovate on Generative AI as a Service.

What You’ll Need to Succeed

• A Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, a related field, or equivalent industry experience.
• You excel in undefined environments and get excited about finding pragmatic solutions to complex technical or organizational challenges.
• You keep up with the industry trends and grow your knowledge and skills to solve technical problems.
• Experience in building and scaling distributed systems, as well as experience with containerization and orchestration technologies like Kubernetes.
• Production level expertise with containerization orchestration engines (e.g. Kubernetes) and proven understanding of modern, continuous development techniques and pipelines (IaC, CI/CD, ArgoCD, Git)
• Fundamental programming skills, ideally practical experience in one (and preferably more) of the following languages: Python, Go
• Good knowledge of infrastructure configuration management tools like Ansible and Terraform.
• Experience in using observability and tracing-related tools like InfluxDB, Prometheus, and Elastic Stack.
• An understanding of AI/ML, including ML frameworks, public cloud, and commercial AI/ML solutions - familiarity with Pytorch, SageMaker, HuggingFace, NVIDIA TensorRT or OpenAI Triton a plus.

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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 $154,000 -- $278,800 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.

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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