Principal Architect — Distributed Systems & Agentic AI Security, Governance

What you'll do

• Define agentic AI architecture for agent identity, authorization, lifecycle, orchestration, context, and execution across Adobe’s Customer Experience Platform.
• Own security, privacy, compliance, and audit architecture for agent interactions; establish standards and review new capabilities.
• Lead cross-functional architecture work, mentor technical teams, and represent Adobe’s governance posture to executives and customers.

What they ask for

• 15+ years in software engineering and security architecture, focused on distributed systems, platform engineering, and enterprise-scale access control.
• Recent experience in Agentic AI Security and deep knowledge of agent orchestration, tool/function calling, reasoning and planning loops, and multi-agent coordination.
• Expert knowledge of identity and access management, authorization models, and credential/secrets management.
• Demonstrated ability to lead cross-functional ambiguous initiatives and influence organization-wide standards.

Nice to have

• Practical experience with agent-lifecycle governance, audit evidence, and anomaly/incident response.
• Experience with developer platforms, cloud-native or streaming data platforms; privacy/compliance frameworks; or an Architecture Review Board.

Pay

$190,200 - $360,500 annually (base salary); $248,900 - $360,500 (base salary)

Tools

OAuth/OIDC, SAML, OPA/Rego, Cedar, Kafka, Spark, MCP

AI focus

Architect and govern secure, privacy-preserving agentic AI systems, including agent identity, authorization, orchestration, multi-agent coordination, and autonomous execution.