Site Reliability Engineer
Confirmed on the employer's own hiring board on Oct 22, 2026. First seen by Alion on Oct 21, 2026. Adidas scores A on the Alion truth index.
At adidas, every day is a chance to flip the script. An invitation to take everything we know and re-invent it. Do it better. Never settling for good enough.
Every day we get up, invent, adapt, improvise, find new ways to collaborate,
and do the unexpected. We’re creators, makers and doers. Helping athletes make
a difference, not just in their games, but in their lives and in their world.
It’s an obsession.
We’ve been doing this for more than 75 years. With an unmatched history and tradition
of creating iconic products, consumer connections and experiences, we’ve been defining
sport culture since the beginning.
And we’re never done.
Come be a part of shaping the future together with us.
IT STARTS WITH YOU
SOFTWARE ENGINEER / SENIOR SOFTWARE ENGINEER - Site Reliability Engineering (SRE)
Digital Ecom Tech
PURPOSE:
We believe that “through sports we have the power to change lives”. adidas digital products are the most powerful tool we have, to touch the lives of our consumers.
At adidas, SRE is a capability that ensures stability and reliability of products built and run on large scale, distributed systems which in turn provide exceptional, uninterrupted User Experience for our Web and Mobile platforms.
As individuals, we are creative, collaborative and confident. As a team, we are agile, are empowered to make change, and are obsessed with maintaining stable and reliable platforms for our consumers.
KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES:
Being a Site Reliability Engineer in adidas, you will have opportunity to lead design, implement and build large-scale and distributed systems, ensuring the availability, scalability, performance, and efficiency one of systems and software components the most important sport brands in the world.
You will drive the continuous integration and continuous deployment strategy combining key aspects like velocity, availability, quality and security.
Automation will be part of you DNA, preventing problem recurrence and reducing the time to recover. Automate yourself making systems do the toil optimizing engineering time.
Continuous improvement of time to detect of the issues through better observability and advanced alerting implementations.
Defining and iterating on SLIs, SLOs, and SLAs as part of the services lifecycle.
Participate in On-Call Incident technical support.
Work on technical resolution for incidents, identifying technical root cause and creating backlog to avoid repeated incidents in the future (post-mortems to arrive at remedial actions).
You help define standards and adopt new technologies.
WHAT WE ARE LOOKING FOR:
Strong awareness and experience of working with Site Reliability Engineering principles
5 to 7-year experience in IT experience with 3 years in relevant area (DevOps / SRE). (7 Years for Senior Software Engineer position)
2 years of proven working experience leading a team (for Senior roles).
College or university degree with focus on IT or equivalent combination of education and experience.
Strong interpersonal and communication skills. Proficient spoken and written command of English.
Aptitude to be a good team player and the desire to learn and implement new technologies.
Technical skills (Must-to-have):
Experience in writing software in OOP (Java/NodeJs/GO/Python). Adapting, learning and working with different languages and frameworks.
Experience with large-scale, complex distributed systems.
Passion about SRE/DevOps.
Experience in using AI tools like Claude Code or GitHub Copilot
Technical skills (Nice-to-have):
Experience with Rest APIs, API integration and Web Services.
Experience with public cloud providers (AWS/Azure/Google)
Experience with distributed message queues (Kafka/AWS SQS/ RabbitMQ)
Experience with containerized environments (Kubernetes/Docker/OpenShift)
Experience with CI/CD build pipelines (Jenkins/Circle CI/ArgoCD/GitHub)
Experience with monitoring solutions (Prometheus/ Elasticsearch/ APM)
Experience with establishing Service Levels across teams and operating with them
Experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform/CloudFormation/Ansible)
Networking concepts (SSH, FTP, TCP/IP, DNS, Load balancing, CDN).
Experience with AI/ML-driven tooling into the traditional CI/CD and production infrastructure to enable automated event correlation, predictive alerting, and self-healing systems
WHAT IF I DON’T CHECK ALL THE BOXES?
It’s ok if some of the technology or terminology mentioned here are new for you. We’ll happily teach you.
At adidas, we’re keen to increase our team’s diversity of backgrounds and skills, and we’re more interested in the work you will produce than that work you’ve already produced in the past. If you’d love to work with us, then we’d love to hear from you.
If you are here is because you are interested on the technologies that we use:
Check out the adidas developer portal to see our latest projects, platforms and tech stacks: https://adidas.github.io
MAIN TECHNOLOGIES WE USE:
Programming Languages: Java, JavaScript
Cloud solutions: AWS, Azure, Google
Distributed message queues: Kafka, AWS SQS, Rabit MQ
Containerized environments: Kubernetes, Docker
Monitoring solutions: Prometheus, Elasticsearch
Infrastructure as Code: Terraform, Ansible.
CI/CD: Jenkins, GitHub Actions
AI Tools: Claude Code, GitHub Copilot
WHAT WE OFFER
You will be part of a company where digital transformation, innovation and continuous improvement are core principles of our culture.
You will join a team of talented and passionate quality engineers, with a lot of opportunities to grow and reach your expectations.
You will be part of a highly engaged, multinational with international career opportunities.
Individual development, training and a tech community.
Hybrid Work Setup: enjoy the advantages of a flexible remote work environment (up to 40% Weekly) combined with the amazing onsite facilities and culture.
Competitive salary, benefits and valuable discounts on adidas products.
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