# Sr Staff Engineer

**Company**: Adobe
**Location**: San Jose
**Experience**: staff
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $173,500 - $331,050 annually
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

As a Sr Staff Engineer on Adobe's Risk Platform (ARP), you'll set the architectural direction for risk mitigation across Adobe. You'll define the standards, patterns, and long-term technical strategy that let ARP and Adobe stay ahead of fraud and abuse as it evolves.

Responsibilities:

- Architect systems built for the next three to five years of risk mitigation, while delivering impact iteratively and solving today's most important priorities along the way.

- Push the platform to the forefront of AI and ML to strengthen fraud and abuse detection.

- Lay the foundational building blocks of the Risk Platform that future risk-mitigation capability builds on, including the platform's shift toward event-driven, continuously-reasoning risk intelligence.

- Set architectural standards for risk-decisioning services that other teams across Adobe adopt.

- Share architectural thinking broadly, through design docs that become org-wide standards, white papers, tech talks, or cross-org design reviews.

- Simplify complex, interlinked systems into designs other teams can build on with confidence.

- Mentor senior and staff engineers across teams, growing the next generation of technical leaders.

Requirements:

- Bachelor's or advanced degree in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent experience; Master's preferred.

- 12+ years architecting high-scale, highly performant platforms, and leading the technical teams that build them.

- Deep understanding of AI and ML, both to strengthen fraud detection and to counter AI-powered attacks.

- Deep expertise in distributed systems and databases, including SQL, NoSQL, and DynamoDB-class stores.

- Track record architecting systems with multi-year relevancy, not just solving today's scaling or reliability problem.

- Experience with data lakes and large-scale data platforms like Databricks or Spark.

- Proven ability to influence engineering direction across teams and Business Units without formal authority.

- A track record of publishing or presenting technical work that shaped how others build.

Nice to have:

- Experience with graph databases or identity/relationship graphs applied to fraud or abuse detection.

- Device fingerprinting or AI agent design experience.

- A payments, commerce, or fraud background.

- Familiarity with regulatory and compliance constraints relevant to payments and fraud decisioning.

Benefits:

- Comprehensive benefits programs

- Opportunities for growth and professional development

- Collaborative and dynamic work environment

## Skills

### Required
- AI
- ML
- distributed systems
- databases
- SQL
- NoSQL
- DynamoDB
- data lakes
- large-scale data platforms
- Databricks
- Spark

### Nice to have
- graph databases
- identity/relationship graphs
- device fingerprinting
- AI agent design
- payments
- commerce
- fraud background
- regulatory and compliance constraints

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