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Staff Security Data Engineer

Adobe · 2 Locations · On-site

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About Adobe

Adobe is changing the world through digital experiences. We help our customers create, deliver and optimize content and applications.

About the role

Adobe’s Security Data Platform team builds and operates a petabyte-scale security data lakehouse that turns enterprise telemetry into trusted data for threat detection, investigations, compliance, and security analytics. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.

What they're looking for

  • Strong AWS experience across storage, compute, networking, and IAM, plus production Terraform experience designing, testing, and maintaining reusable infrastructure modules
  • Practical understanding of distributed systems, including partitioning, replication, consistency, back pressure, scalability, and fault tolerance, with experience diagnosing failures across system boundaries
  • Experience with Airflow, MWAA, or equivalent orchestration, and with production observability, data quality, automated testing, CI/CD, and reliable deployment and recovery practices
  • Demonstrated ability to improve platform cost, performance, and reliability with measurable results, sound judgment in balancing these goals against security and consumer requirements
  • Effective technical communication and multi-functional influence, including leading design reviews, resolving disagreements, mentoring engineers, and building adoption of shared engineering practices
More about this role

Adobe’s Security Data Platform team builds and operates a petabyte-scale security data lakehouse that turns enterprise telemetry into trusted data for threat detection, investigations, compliance, and security analytics.

As a Staff Security Data Engineer, you will own full-system designs and lead critical engineering initiatives across ingestion, storage, governance, orchestration, and data serving. This is a hands-on individual contributor role: you will write and review production code, build infrastructure, define test strategy, fix complex failures, and work with other engineers to deliver the architecture you help shape.

You will partner with Security Operations, Threat Intelligence, Compliance, Security Engineering, and infrastructure teams to resolve technical tradeoffs and deliver reliable, cost-effective platform capabilities. Your impact will come through engineering delivery, sound architectural decisions, and helping others become stronger technical leaders.

Help us evolve our team from petabyte scale toward exabyte scale!

  • Own end-to-end designs that shape the Security Data Platform’s fundamental architecture on Databricks and AWS, using Spark, Delta Lake, and Unity...

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