Staff Security Data Engineer

Adobe

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Work type
On-site
Location
San Jose, CASan Francisco, CA
Salary
$159,200–$301,600 / yr
Employment
Full-time
Posted
29 days ago
Freshness
Confirmed live today

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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

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TL;DR · Staff Security Data Engineer

As a Staff Security Data Engineer on the Security Data Platform team, you will own full-system designs and lead critical engineering initiatives to build a petabyte-scale security data lakehouse. You will develop distributed batch and streaming pipelines for EDR telemetry, network logs, and cloud audit logs while managing ingestion, storage, governance, and orchestration. Your daily work involves writing production Python and SQL code, building reusable Terraform modules for AWS and Databricks, and utilizing Spark, Delta Lake, and Unity Catalog. You will solve complex technical problems regarding throughput, fault tolerance, and schema evolution to support threat detection and compliance. By establishing data contracts and OCSF mappings, you will ensure reliable, cost-effective platform capabilities that transform enterprise telemetry into trusted data for security analytics and investigations.

What you'll do

  • Own end-to-end designs for the Security Data Platform architecture using Databricks, AWS, Spark, and Delta Lake.
  • Build and evolve distributed batch and streaming pipelines for various security telemetry and logs.
  • Write maintainable Python and SQL code to develop complex platform features and refactor unreliable code.
  • Build and maintain reusable Terraform modules for AWS and Databricks infrastructure components.
  • Design layered lakehouse data models and establish data contracts, quality checks, and governance policies.
  • Engineer and operate Airflow and MWAA orchestration for pipeline dependencies, retries, and automated recovery.
  • Lead diagnosis and resolution of complex production issues across Spark, storage, and cloud infrastructure.
  • Profile workloads to drive measurable cost and performance improvements through query tuning and compute right-sizing.

What we're looking for

  • Must have 10 or more years of experience building and operating production data platforms in data or software engineering.
  • Must have a record of personally delivering complex distributed systems and leading full-system design and implementation across team boundaries.
  • Must possess deep production expertise in Spark, Databricks, Delta Lake, and lakehouse architecture.
  • Must have strong Python and advanced SQL skills for data modeling, profiling, and query optimization.
  • Must have strong AWS experience across storage, compute, networking, and IAM.
  • Must have production Terraform experience designing, testing, and maintaining reusable infrastructure modules.
  • Must have experience with Airflow, MWAA, or equivalent orchestration, and with production observability, data quality, and CI/CD.
  • Experience with security telemetry, OCSF schemas, and Unity Catalog governance (preferred).

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