# Systems Design/Architecture Engineer

**Company**: Adobe
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $148,500 - $293,000 annually
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

Join Adobe as a Systems Design/Architecture Engineer and play a pivotal role in building the future of our technology stack! This is an outstanding opportunity to work with world-class talent and technologies to develop exceptional products.

You will develop robust technical artifacts such as automation tools, secure-by-default templates, and reference architectures that enable flawless and secure engineering processes.

Key responsibilities include:

- Driving strategic decisions by aligning company strategy with analytical insights to meet ambitious growth goals

- Building comprehensive system architectures covering identity and access management, network segmentation, application security, and data protection

- Establishing and enforcing architectural standards across product teams

- Collaborating with business units to represent the architecture function

- Mentoring junior engineers, encouraging a culture of excellence through design reviews, office hours, or structured mentoring programs

- Evaluating new technologies and determining their relevance to our stack, recommending strategic investments

- Conducting ongoing research to benchmark and incorporate industry guidelines, providing actionable insights

To succeed in this role, you will need:

- 15+ years in systems development, architecture engineering, or a related field, with at least 10 years in distributed computing environments

- Demonstrated proficiency in at least three core domains: identity and access management, applied cryptography, network security, cloud security (AWS, Azure, GCP), application security, or secure SDLC

- Practical experience with threat modeling methods

- A track record of crafting impactful architecture decisions that others have successfully implemented

- Strong communication skills, capable of explaining complex concepts to both technical and non-technical collaborators

- A bachelor's degree or equivalent experience in computer science, engineering, or a related area

Nice to have:

- Experience operating as a senior or staff-level engineer

- Relevant certifications such as CISSP, CISM, OSCP, or cloud security certifications

- Experience presenting security posture to enterprise customers or regulators

- Experience working within a matrixed organization

- A public history of contributions via presentations, publications, open-source projects, or patents

We will know you're succeeding when:

- Within your first year, your architecture decisions become the standard for other teams

- Your threat models lead to actionable fixes that improve security

- Engineering leads seek your input early in the build phase

- Your contributions bring about clear progress in risk metrics, reflecting your influence within the organization

## Skills

### Required
- identity and access management
- applied cryptography
- network security
- cloud security
- application security
- secure SDLC
- threat modeling

### Nice to have
- CISSP
- CISM
- OSCP
- cloud security certifications

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