Adobe
Staff Security Data Engineer
San Jose, California · Staff+
Sponsorship not specified$159k-$302kDetected 12 days ago
PythonExpressDistributed SystemsSQLDatabricksAWSTerraformCI/CDSparkAirflowCybersecuritySIEMSOARSOC OperationsDetection EngineeringIncident ResponseTest AutomationUnityLeadershipCommunicationMentoring
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Cap-exempt (no lottery)0
Sponsors this role95
Entry-level history0
PERM / green-card track0
Lottery odds (Level IV)94
Fits your clock70
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About the role
- 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!
- Automate delivery through version control and CI/CD.
Responsibilities
- 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.
- Design for throughput, fault tolerance, replay, schema evolution, and sub-minute freshness where use cases require it.
- Build and maintain tested, reusable Terraform modules for AWS and Databricks infrastructure, including S3, IAM, VPC networking, and Amazon Managed Workflows for Apache Airflow (MWAA). Automate delivery through version control and CI/CD.
- Lead cross-team technical discussions, reconcile competing requirements, and build agreement on architecture and delivery priorities without formal management authority.
- Partner with detection and security analytics engineers to deliver the data interfaces, governance, and pipeline capabilities needed for SIEM modernization and automated detection deployment.
Requirements
- a prior Staff or Principal title is not required.
- Ability to turn general, unstructured assignments into clear technical approaches and working software.
- Deep production expertise in Spark's traditional and real-time data workloads, Databricks, Delta Lake, and lakehouse architecture
- 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
Nice to have
- Experience with security telemetry, OCSF or comparable security schemas, and data requirements for SIEM, SOAR, threat detection, or investigations.
- Experience with Unity Catalog governance, data classification and retention, regional data controls, or multi-region platform design.
- Experience with Cribl Stream, Vector, or similar telemetry routing and enrichment tools, and platform integrations supporting automated threat detection rollout.
- We're on a mission to hire the very best and believe in creating a company culture where all employees are empowered to make an impact.
- The next big idea could be yours.
- Let's Adobe together
- Adobe is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer.
- Adobe aims to make our Careers website and recruiting process accessible to any and all users.
Compensation
- 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 $159,200 - $301,600 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.
- In California, the pay range for this position is $208,300 - $301,600
- 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.
Benefits
- In addition, certain roles may be eligible for long-term incentives in the form of a new hire equity award.
Company info
- At Adobe, we believe that great ideas can come from anywhere in the organization.
- Let's Adobe together At Adobe, we believe in creating a company culture where all employees are empowered to make an impact.
- The use of AI or recording tools during live interviews is not permitted unless explicitly invited by the interviewer or approved in advance as part of a reasonable accommodation.
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