Job Description: Senior Product Security Engineer
The OpportunityAre you passionate about product security testing and vulnerability management? Adobe Product and Software Security is seeking a dynamic candidate with strong security testing expertise to join our expanding team. In this role, you will be the frontline responder for external vulnerability reports submitted through the Bug Bounty program, working closely with internal engineering and security teams to ensure timely, accurate triage and resolution, managing automation workflows, supporting live hacking events, campaigns, challenges.
This is a great opportunity to contribute to innovative work that will elevate Adobe Security to new heights!
What You'll Do- Triage, validate and reproduce incoming vulnerability reports submitted via the bug bounty platform, assessing validity, impact, and scope, including AI related reports.
- Assign CVSS scores and severity ratings accurately, following Adobe’s internal severity guidelines and industry standards.
- Reproduce proof-of-concept (PoC) exploits to validate reported vulnerabilities across web, API, and mobile surfaces.
- Communicate clearly and professionally with external researchers: request clarifications, provide status updates, and manage expectations.
- Coordinate with product engineering teams to route confirmed vulnerabilities for remediation.
- Identify duplicate, out-of-scope, or informational reports and close them with clear, respectful explanations.
- Contribute to internal documentation, triage runbooks, and severity calibration guidelines.
- Flag systemic or critical findings to Bug Bounty team for partner concern as needed.
- Develop dashboards in PowerBI to support data-driven analysis and remediation efforts.
What You Need to Succeed- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, with 5+ years of practical experience.
- In-depth knowledge of application security vulnerabilities (OWASP Top 10) and mitigation techniques.
- Strong understanding of CVSS v3.1 scoring and hands-on experience applying it to real-world vulnerabilities.
- Proficiency in common web vulnerability classes: XSS, SQL injection, SSRF, IDOR, authentication flaws, and business logic issues.
- Ability to reproduce and validate PoC exploits using tools such as Burp Suite, browser DevTools, curl, and custom scripts.
- Familiarity with bug bounty platforms and responsible disclosure processes.
- Solid written communication skills — able to write clear, constructive responses to researchers of all skill levels.
- Familiarity with attacker techniques used by external researchers against LLM systems and generative AI products.
- Proficiency with JIRA and PowerBI.
- Strong knowledge of LLM (Large Language Model) testing methodologies.
- Hands-on experience in penetration testing of AI/ML and LLM-powered products, including chat interfaces, agentic workflows, and inference APIs.
- Ability to design and complete AI-specific test cases.
- Experience with attacker techniques used by external researchers against LLM systems and generative AI products.
- Experience with a SOAR/orchestration platform (building or extending app connectors and playbooks, understanding action-based automation models)
- API integration literacy (can read a vendor's REST API docs or an OpenAPI/Swagger spec and correctly implement authentication (OAuth2, bearer tokens, API keys), pagination, and error handling)
- Scripting proficiency in Python (comfortable writing and maintaining small, production-quality integration code)
- Event-driven automation (hands-on experience with webhooks, AWS Lambda, and API Gateway, turning real-time platform events into automated downstream actions)
- Dependability: Demonstrates commitment, works independently, accepts accountability, adapts to change, sets personal standards, and remains focused under pressure.
- Ability to communicate professionally and effectively.
Expected Pay Range:
Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several U.S. geographic markets, and we pay differently based on those defined markets. The U.S. pay range for this positionis $144,800 -- $261,450 annually. Paywithin this range varies by work locationand may also depend on job-related knowledge, skills,and experience. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for the job location during the hiring process.
In California, the pay range for this position is $180,600 - $261,450
At Adobe, for sales roles starting salaries are expressed as total target compensation (TTC = base + commission), and short-term incentives are in the form of sales commission plans. Non-sales roles starting salaries are expressed as base salary and short-term incentives are in the form of the Annual Incentive Plan (AIP).
In addition, certain roles may be eligible for long-term incentives in the form of a new hire equity award.
