Senior Security Engineer
Adobe
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This role pays more than 88% of similar roles. Most pay $151,475–$203,500 — the shaded band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $221k versus about $177k for comparable roles.
Based on 240 similar postings.
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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 218 open roles on FindRole.
Listed pay typically runs $187,100–$270,950 across 216 roles with salary data.
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Sr Security Engineer The Sr Security Engineer joins the Identity Architecture & Solutions team to build and operationalize scalable identity and SaaS security capabilities enterprise-wide. This role focuses on reducing identity-centric risk by engineering Zero-Trust access controls for workforce and service identities using RBAC and ABAC standards. You will develop pipelines, harden privileged access across platforms like Entra ID, and implement risk-adaptive policies. Key responsibilities include performing tool POCs, defining baselines for M365, Slack, GitHub, Workday, and Google, and creating remediation runbooks. The role requires expertise in Entra ID, Okta, SailPoint, and core Zero Trust principles. Technical requirements include experience with Python, PowerShell, Terraform, and infrastructure-as-code. You will also manage service identity frameworks like SPIFFE/SPIRE while authoring reference architectures to address complex security challenges involving authentication, authorization, and entitlement management across large SaaS tenants.
What does a Security Engineer earn in California?
Median $196000 from 31 postings across 16 companies.
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