Identity Architecture & SaaS Security Engineer

Job title: Identity Architecture & SaaS Security Engineer

About the Role Join Adobe as an Identity Architecture & SaaS Security Engineer focused on designing, building, and operating scalable identity and SaaS security capabilities enterprise-wide. You will engineer Zero-Trust access controls for workforce and service identities, develop pipelines using RBAC and ABAC, and help reduce identity-centric risk through measurable security outcomes.

What You'll Do

• Engineer Zero-Trust access controls for workforce and service identities; develop pipelines using RBAC and ABAC; incorporate device and posture checks and risk-adaptive policies for critical services and high-risk scenarios.
• Harden privileged access by right-sizing entitlements and eliminating long-lived elevated access across prioritized platforms.
• Participate in tool POCs and deployments for SaaS security posture monitoring; define baselines for M365, Slack, GitHub, Workday, and Google; build remediation runbooks and posture success metrics.
• Instrument identity metrics by standardizing log schemas for authentication, authorization, entitlement changes; publish dashboards showing privilege drift, misconfigurations, and access sprawl; coordinate risky events with security alert procedures.
• Contribute to architecture & standards: author implementation guides and reference architecture to support a multi-year risk-reduction strategy; stay open to new technologies and risks.

What We're Looking For

• Experience with enterprise identity controls and solutions, including delivering outcomes using Entra ID/AD, Okta, and SailPoint (or equivalents).
• Strong understanding of Zero Trust principles, least privilege, continuous verification; incorporate into the enterprise.
• SaaS posture skills for securing large SaaS tenants, including security authentication and authorization for all identities accessing SaaS tenants.
• Influence and collaborate with key partners in IT and other security teams; develop security outcomes that reduce risk and require creative problem solving.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including communicating complex problems and solutions to business leaders and technical specialists.
• Ability to deliver measurable outcomes in a technical environment that align with long term goals; active team participation and an inquisitive mind passionate about delivering creative solutions.

Nice to Have

• Engineering familiarity with secure access control solutions, secrets management, and CI/CD solutions and their customers.
• Scripting/automation knowledge and infrastructure-as-code for policy and pipeline automation.
• Exposure to service identity frameworks and workload identity patterns.
• Approximately 5+ years relevant experience; Bachelor’s required or equivalent experience.

Compensation & Benefits

• Salary: $144,800 – $261,450 per year (USD).
• Benefits: comprehensive benefits programs as part of Adobe’s employee offerings.