Principal Architect — Distributed Systems & Agentic AI Security, Governance

Society for AI Security; San Jose (CA); Sur place; USD 180 000 - 240 000; Plein temps

Résumé du poste

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.

Responsabilités

• 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.

Connaissances

Distributed systems

Security architecture

Agentic AI

Identity and access management

Leadership

Formation

MS/PhD in CS or related field

Outils

OPA/Rego

Cedar policy engines

OAuth/OIDC

SAML

Kafka

Spark

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Principal Architect — Distributed Systems & Agentic AI Security, Governance

This is a multi -fluency role: you need the distributed systems and Agentic - AI depth to architect how agents reason, plan, and act at scale, and the security-and-compliance mechanisms that manage safe and trustworthy execution. Key Responsibilities Agentic AI Architecture Define and drive...

Principal Architect — Distributed Systems, Agentic AI, Security, Privacy and Governance

Summary

At A dobe , we are building enterprise-grade Agentic - AI systems that automate large-scale data access and workflow execution for business processes. These systems not only embody foundational enterprise security and privacy considerations but also provide robust and safet y-preserving capabilities in the emerging world of agent identity, delegated access control and human-i n-the-loop execution models.

This is a multi -fluency role: you need the distributed systems and Agentic - AI depth to architect how agents reason, plan, and act at scale, and the security-and-compliance mechanisms that manage safe and trustworthy execution. You will partner with engineering, product, legal/privacy, and security leadership to turn fast-moving agentic AI capabilities into a governed, enterprise-ready platform .

Agentic AI Architecture

• Define and drive the end-to-end reference architecture for how AI agents are authenticate d and authorized to access enterprise data, tools, and systems across Adobe's Customer Experience Platform — covering agent lifecycle management, interaction protocols, memory/context handling, and action-execution frameworks.
• Evaluate and select frameworks, protocols, and platforms (e.g., agentic orchestration frameworks, MCP-style tool systems, policy engines such as OPA/Cedar-class authorization) that best support secure, governed multi-agent systems at Adobe's scale.

Security, Compliance & Privacy by Design

• Own the security architecture for agent-to-system and agent-to-agent interactions: identity and workload authentication, least-privilege authorization, secrets and credential mediation, network egress controls, runtime isolation, and telemetry/audit evidence sufficient to satisfy internal audit and external regulators.
• Embed privacy-by-design and compliance requirements (data governance, consent, data residency, retention) directly into the agent architecture rather than bolting them on after the fact; partner with Legal/Privacy to keep architecture decisions ahead of regulatory expectations for autonomous AI systems.

Cross-Organizational Leadership & Standards

• Lead architectural reviews and set standards for scalability, resiliency, observability, and cost efficiency — with security and compliance treated as first-class, non-negotiable design constraints rather than downstream signoffs .
• Contribute to or lead an Architecture Review Board function for agentic AI, ensuring new capabilities are evaluated consistently against Adobe's governance bar before they ship.

Technical Leadership, Mentorship & Evangelism

• Serve as Adobe's senior technical authority and encouraging leader on secure agentic AI architecture . Mentor senior engineers and architects. Elevate security and privacy proficiency across the broader engineering organization.
• Create and maintain architecture documentation, decision records, and threat models that are equally useful to implementation teams and to senior leadership.
• Represent Adobe's agentic AI security and governance posture to executive leadership , enterprise customers, and — where relevant — regulators and standards bodies, with clear, bounded claims about maturity, open risks, and the evidence required before broader rollout.
• Provide thought leadership across the organization where agentic AI access governance is heading, and shape Adobe's roadmap accordingly.

Basic Qualifications

• 15 years of experience in software engineering and security architecture, with a strong focus on distributed systems, platform engineering, and enterprise-scale access control. Recent experience in Agentic AI Security
• Deep understanding of agentic AI architecture patterns : agent orchestration, tool/function calling, reasoning and planning loops, and multi-agent coordination, along with the risks specific to each.
• Expert-level knowledge of identity and access management, authorization models, and credential/secrets management (e.g., OAuth/OIDC, SAML, workload identity, policy-as-code approaches such as OPA/Rego or Cedar-class engines).
• Demonstrated ability to lead ambiguous initiatives involving multiple functions across security, product, legal/privacy, and infrastructure teams, and to influence org-wide standards without direct authority.

Preferred Qualifications

• Practical experience with agent-lifecycle governance , including audit evidence generation and anomaly/incident response for autonomous systems.
• Familiarity with privacy and compliance frameworks relevant to AI systems (e.g., data residency, consent management , and sectoral regulatory expectations for automated decision-making).
• Experience building or governing developer platforms , cloud-native services, or streaming data platforms (e.g., Kafka, Spark) at enterprise scale.
• Advanced degree (M.S. or Ph.D.) in Computer Science, Security, or related technical field.
• Experience standing up or contributing to an enterprise Architecture Review Board or equivalent governance function.

Success Profile

• Strong systems thinker who can simplify genuinely hard problems — you make governance transparent without making it burdensome .
• Comfortable operating at both hands-on technical depth and strategic, executive-facing leadership.
• High ownership, high bias for execution, and a track record of turning a working draft into a production-grade, adopted standard.

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