Senior Data Engineer

Adobe

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Work type
On-site
Location
San Jose
Salary
$163,200–$236,400 / yr
Posted
1 day ago

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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 325 open roles on FindRole.

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TL;DR · Senior Data Engineer

As a Senior Data Engineer on Adobe's Firefly data team, you will play a pivotal role in shaping the analytics landscape for Adobe’s growing suite of creative generative AI products. Your responsibilities include architecting and building scalable data pipelines and ETL/ELT workflows into a central data warehouse, ensuring end-to-end accountability for data quality and lineage. You’ll also maintain infrastructure for NLP analysis and build robust reporting pipelines for critical systems, supporting advanced self-serve analytics powered by AI. Essential skills include proficiency in SQL and Python, deep experience with Databricks, Spark SQL, dbt, Airflow, and cloud platforms like AWS or Azure, along with a strong background in data quality and scalable architecture design. This role demands expertise in translating ambiguous business needs into technical solutions and collaborating closely with cross-functional teams to influence the technical roadmap.

What you'll do

  • Architect and build scalable data pipelines and ETL/ELT workflows into a central data warehouse.
  • Maintain infrastructure for clustering, translation pipelines, and NLP analysis supporting modeling teams.
  • Build robust reporting pipelines for product and business-critical systems including generative credit usage data.
  • Define coding standards and engineering guidelines to promote best practices across the team.
  • Partner with data analysts, scientists, ML engineers, and product teams to influence technical roadmap.
  • Support AI-powered insights by reducing dependency on ad hoc requests through efficient data infrastructure.

What we're looking for

  • 5+ years of hands-on data engineering experience with ownership of complex production systems
  • Strong proficiency in SQL, Python, Databricks, Spark SQL, dbt, Airflow, and cloud platforms (AWS/Azure)
  • Ability to architect scalable data solutions and make trade-off decisions independently
  • Demonstrated commitment to data quality through reliability and observability practices
  • Experience translating ambiguous business needs into well-defined technical solutions
  • Strong communication skills for explaining technical architecture to non-technical stakeholders
  • Background in NLP pipelines, timely data processing, or ML feature engineering (preferred)

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