Adobe

Senior Staff Engineer

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1 day ago
San Jose, CA, USAStaff+
H1B sponsor

Base Salary

$174k - $331k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Architect systems and technical strategy for the next three to five years of fraud and abuse mitigation.
  • Define architectural standards and reusable patterns for risk-decisioning services across Adobe.
  • Build foundational capabilities for event-driven and continuously reasoning risk intelligence.
  • Advance the use of AI and ML to improve fraud detection and counter AI-powered attacks.
  • Communicate architectural direction through design documents, white papers, technical talks, and cross-organization design reviews.
  • Influence engineering direction across teams and business units without formal authority.
  • Mentor senior and staff engineers and develop future technical leaders.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s or advanced degree in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent experience; a Master’s degree is preferred.
  • 12+ years of experience architecting high-scale, highly performant platforms and leading the technical teams that build them.
  • Deep understanding of AI and ML for fraud detection and defense against AI-powered attacks.
  • Deep expertise in distributed systems and databases, including SQL, NoSQL, and DynamoDB-class stores.
  • Experience architecting systems with multi-year relevance rather than addressing only immediate scaling or reliability issues.
  • Experience with data lakes and large-scale data platforms such as Databricks or Spark.
  • Proven ability to influence technical direction across teams and business units without formal authority.
  • Track record of publishing or presenting technical work that shaped how others build.
  • Experience with graph databases or identity and relationship graphs applied to fraud or abuse detection is preferred.
  • Device fingerprinting, AI agent design, payments, commerce, fraud, and relevant regulatory or compliance experience are preferred.

Tech Stack

Amazon DynamoDBApache SparkDatabricksSQL

Categories

Adobe

About Adobe

10,000+ employees

Adobe builds software for creative work, document workflows, and customer experience used by individuals, teams, and enterprises. Its products include Creative Cloud (Photoshop, Illustrator, Premiere Pro), Acrobat/Document Cloud, and Experience Cloud for marketing and analytics, sold primarily via subscriptions. Founded in 1982 and headquartered in San Jose, California, Adobe is a public company traded on NASDAQ under the ticker ADBE.

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