Senior Data Engineer

Adobe

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San Jose, US Posted 14 days ago $177,900$257,550 / year

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TL;DR

We are seeking a Senior Data Engineer to join our Data & Analytics Engineering team, where you will develop and maintain scalable data pipelines supporting product usage reporting and enterprise analytics. Your day-to-day responsibilities include building end-to-end data pipelines from instrumentation to executive dashboards using tools like Power BI, establishing clear ownership models for data governance, ensuring data quality through validation strategies and monitoring systems, and collaborating with Product, Analytics, and BI teams. The ideal candidate has 5+ years of experience in data engineering or a related field, proficiency in unified data platforms such as Databricks and Snowflake, hands-on experience with cloud environments like AWS or Azure, and strong communication skills to explain technical concepts clearly. Experience with product usage data and semantic modeling is preferred.

Skills

Databricks Snowflake SQL dbt Spark AWS Azure GCP Power BI Tableau Looker CI/CD Dataflow Kafka Hadoop Python RACI data governance data quality monitoring alerting systems root-cause analysis

What you'll do

  • Build and implement end-to-end data pipelines for product instrumentation and reporting.
  • Develop and maintain documentation for source-of-truth datasets, including metric definitions and lineage tracking.
  • Lead data modeling efforts, focusing on dimensional modeling and consumption-layer optimization.
  • Establish clear ownership models across the data lifecycle to ensure accountability.
  • Define RACI frameworks to clarify roles in data governance processes.
  • Build monitoring systems to proactively detect and resolve data quality issues.

What we're looking for

  • 5+ years of data engineering or related experience.
  • Proficiency in Databricks, Snowflake, and SQL.
  • Experience with modern data transformation frameworks like dbt, Spark.
  • Hands-on expertise in cloud-based high-capacity data integration solutions.
  • Knowledge of semantic modeling and BI tools such as Power BI.
  • Ability to define and implement data ownership models and RACI frameworks.
  • Strong communication skills for technical and non-technical audiences.

Market check

Salary context

This $177,900–$257,550 range sits above 85% of similar postings on FindRole.

Peer median band

$120,000$199,400

Median floor and ceiling across peers.

Typical midpoint (25–75%)

$133,487$198,000

Middle half of comparable postings.

Based on 240 comparable postings.

* 240 is the maximum number of comparable postings sampled.

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About Adobe

Adobe Inc. is a global software company known for creative and multimedia software products including Photoshop, Illustrator, Acrobat, and its cloud-based Creative Cloud and Document Cloud suites. Industry: Creative & Digital Experience Software

Adobe currently has 290 open roles on FindRole.

Listed pay typically runs $183,300–$265,350 across 290 roles with salary data.

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