Principal Architect: Distributed Systems & Agentic AI Security

Society for AI Security; San Jose (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Adobe is seeking a Principal Architect for Distributed Systems and Agentic AI Security, Governance. You will shape how agents reason, plan, and act at scale while embedding security, privacy, and governance into the core architecture.

You will partner with engineering, product, legal/privacy and security leadership to turn advancing agentic AI capabilities into an enterprise-ready platform with robust controls, auditability, and regulatory alignment.

Qualifications

• 15+ years in software engineering and security architecture.
• Deep expertise in agentic AI security and distributed systems.
• Experience leading cross-functional architecture reviews.

Responsibilities

• Define end-to-end reference architecture for authenticated agent access.
• Own security architecture for agent-to-system interactions and compliance.
• Lead architectural reviews and set enterprise standards for governance.
• Mentor engineers and drive architecture decision records and threat models.

Skills

Distributed systems

Security architecture

Agentic AI

Identity and access management

Leadership

Education

MS/PhD in CS or related field

Tools

OPA/Rego

Cedar policy engines

OAuth/OIDC

SAML

Kafka

Spark

Job description

Adobe is seeking a Principal Architect for Distributed Systems and Agentic AI Security, Governance. You will shape how agents reason, plan, and act at scale while embedding security, privacy, and governance into the core architecture.

You will partner with engineering, product, legal/privacy and security leadership to turn advancing agentic AI capabilities into an enterprise-ready platform with robust controls, auditability, and regulatory alignment.