Senior Security Automation Engineer: AI-Driven Web Defense

Adobe; Town of Montana (WI); On-site; USD 171,000 - 248,000; Full time

Job summary

Adobe in Seattle, WA seeks a Senior Security Automation Engineer to build AI-assisted automation across web and edge security. You will create production-grade services, APIs, and pipelines to scale vulnerability response, WAF policy validation, and cross-vendor automation, partnering with product teams to enable self-service security capabilities.

This role demands 6+ years in software/security engineering, strong Python/TypeScript skills, and experience delivering scalable security tools with

Qualifications

• 6+ years in software engineering, security engineering, or security automation with production code shipped.
• Strong proficiency in Python, TypeScript, or a comparable language, with experience building production-quality services and automation.
• Proven experience designing, building, and operating production services, APIs, or automation systems at scale, including observability, reliability measurement, controlled rollout and rollback, and ownership of production failures.
• Strong systems-design judgment and ability to decide when to build abstractions, integrate platforms, or automate to remove complexity.
• Solid fundamentals in web, application, and edge security and applying that knowledge to engineering choices.
• Experience developing AI/LLM-assisted systems, or applying contemporary AI engineering approaches to production workflows.
• Ability to work independently on unstructured problems and make risk-based decisions.
• Strong written and verbal communication; ability to explain technical decisions to engineers and non-technical collaborators.

Responsibilities

• Develop production-ready automation and AI-supported systems for web and edge security processes across WAF/CDN platforms.
• Transform repetitive or high-friction security processes into scalable services, APIs, pipelines, and self-service options for product teams.
• Develop vulnerability-response automation with AI-assisted analysis, WAF rule creation, validation, evaluation, regression testing, and secure deployment.
• Build automation around vulnerability intelligence, control coverage, policy lifecycle, configuration drift, and measurement of control effectiveness.
• Develop abstractions and integrations to reduce operational complexity across multiple WAF vendors.
• Build evaluation frameworks for AI-assisted security workflows and outputs, measuring correctness, drift, false positives/negatives, readiness for production.

Skills

Python/TypeScript

Security automation

Production services

CI/CD

Observability

AI/LLM in security

Tools

AWS WAF

Cloudflare

Akamai

ModSecurity

WAF/CDN platforms

Job description

Adobe in Seattle, WA seeks a Senior Security Automation Engineer to build AI-assisted automation across web and edge security. You will create production-grade services, APIs, and pipelines to scale vulnerability response, WAF policy validation, and cross-vendor automation, partnering with product teams to enable self-service security capabilities.

This role demands 6+ years in software/security engineering, strong Python/TypeScript skills, and experience delivering scalable security tools with