Adobe
Senior Staff Engineer
$174K–$331K
San Jose · Senior Staff · Full-time · Posted Sep 18, 2026
- Experience
- 12+ years; no alternative stated.
- Education
- Bachelor's or advanced degree in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent experience; Master's preferred.
About the job
Sets long-term architecture and technical standards for Adobe’s risk platform, advancing real-time fraud and abuse detection across products and services.
What you'll do
- Define the platform’s architecture, technical strategy, and standards for risk-decisioning services.
- Build foundational capabilities for event-driven risk intelligence and improve fraud detection using AI and ML.
- Publish and present architectural guidance, simplify complex systems, and mentor senior and staff engineers.
What they ask for
- 12+ years architecting high-scale, highly performant platforms and leading the technical teams that build them.
- Deep understanding of AI and ML, including fraud detection and countering AI-powered attacks.
- Deep expertise in distributed systems and databases, including SQL, NoSQL, and DynamoDB-class stores.
- Track record of multi-year system architecture, large-scale data platforms, cross-team influence, and technical publishing or presentations.
Nice to have
- Master’s degree.
- Experience with graph databases or identity/relationship graphs, device fingerprinting or AI agent design, payments, commerce or fraud, or relevant regulatory and compliance constraints.
Pay
$173,500 - $331,050 annually (base salary); $228,600 - $331,050 (base salary)
Tools
SQL, NoSQL, DynamoDB, Databricks, Spark
AI focus
Advance AI and ML for fraud and abuse detection, counter AI-powered attacks, and support continuously reasoning risk intelligence.
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