Product Security Engineer 5

Our Company

Changing the world through digital experiences is what Adobe's all about. We give everyone-from emerging artists to global brands-everything they need to design and deliver exceptional digital experiences! We're passionate about empowering people to create beautiful and powerful images, videos, and apps, and transform how companies interact with customers across every screen.

We're on a mission to hire the very best and are committed to creating exceptional employee experiences where everyone is respected and has access to equal opportunity. We realize that new ideas can come from everywhere in the organization, and we know the next big idea could be yours!

The Opportunity

As a Product Security Engineer at Adobe, you'll be at the forefront of redefining digital experiences by ensuring outstanding security. This outstanding opportunity allows you to collaborate with ambitious teams across the company to greatly improve the security of our products. Your role will be pivotal in successfully implementing security strategies, influencing security culture, and competing with world-class standards in the industry. If you're determined to make a tangible impact in product security at scale, this role is crafted for you.

This position requires deep technical expertise, strong leadership skills, and a proactive approach to identifying and mitigating security risks. Your role will involve defining security requirements, helping with critical issues, and fostering positive practices throughout the organization. If you're passionate about securing sophisticated systems, leading through influence, and making a tangible impact on product security at scale, this role is for you.

What You'll Do

Strategic Leadership & Collaboration

• Work closely with engineering leadership, product teams, and customer-facing teams, to integrate security into the software development lifecycle and support processes.

• Act as a trusted security advisor, offering mentorship on security architecture, risk management, and standard methodologies.

• Serve as a liaison between security-focused teams (AppSec, OpSec, Threat Intel, Red Teams, etc.) and product engineering teams.

Security Strategy & Risk Management

• Identify, assess, and prioritize security risks across products and infrastructure.

• Define security requirements for products, services, and infrastructure while balancing security with business and engineering objectives.

• Lead security design reviews and threat modeling exercises for high-risk features and architectures.

Incident Response & Escalations

• Leading security blocking issues and providing technical leadership during high-priority incidents.

• Coordinate forensic analysis, root cause investigations, post-incident reviews, and communications to improve security resilience.

War Games & Security Simulations

• Plan and lead team exercises such as tabletop simulations, and adversarial attack simulations to test security defenses.

• Analyze findings from war games and translate them into actionable improvements.

Security Advocacy & Thought Leadership

• Write technical articles, research papers, and internal documentation to elevate security awareness across engineering teams.

• Present findings and recommendations to executive leadership and various engineering teams.

• Advocate for secure development standard methodologies and promote a culture of security throughout the organization.

Process & Tooling Improvements

• Help define security processes, runbooks, and policies to improve security operations and response.

• Drive the adoption of security tooling and automation to enhance security visibility and efficiency.

• Collaborate with compliance and governance teams to ensure regulatory and industry-standard alignment.

Qualifications & Experience

• Expertise in security principles across application security, cloud security, network security, and incident response.

• Strong understanding of modern software development practices, CI/CD, and DevSecOps principles.

• Experience leading security assessments, threat modeling, and architecture reviews.

• Proven track record to work multi-functionally with engineering, product, and leadership teams.

• Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to articulate sophisticated security concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences.

• Experience with regulatory compliance and security frameworks.

• Deep knowledge of security testing methodologies, attack techniques, and red teaming strategies.

Preferred Qualifications

• Hands-on experience with security tooling, automation, and offensive security techniques.

• Certifications such as CISSP, OSCP, and CISM are a plus.

• Experience contributing to open-source projects or publishing security articles.

Application Window Notice

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