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About Adobe
Adobe Inc. is a global software company known for creative and multimedia software products including Photoshop, Illustrator, Acrobat, and its cloud-based Creative Cloud and Document Cloud suites. Industry: Creative & Digital Experience Software
Adobe currently has
282 open roles
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Listed pay typically runs
$148,100–$282,100
across 76 roles with salary data.
JOB TITLE: Principal Architect — Distributed Systems & Agentic AI Security, Governance
The Principal Architect — Distributed Systems, Agentic AI, Security, Privacy and Governance joins the team to build enterprise-grade Agentic-AI systems for large-scale data access and workflow execution. You will define the end-to-end reference architecture for how AI agents are authenticated and authorized to access enterprise data, tools, and systems. Key responsibilities include owning the security architecture for agent-to-system interactions, managing identity and workload authentication, and embedding privacy-by-design requirements into the agent architecture. You will utilize technologies and frameworks including OPA/Rego or Cedar-class policy engines, OAuth/OIDC, SAML, and Kafka. The role solves the technical challenge of creating a governed, trustworthy platform for autonomous AI systems, ensuring that agent reasoning, planning, and action-execution frameworks meet strict security, compliance, and scalability standards across the Customer Experience Platform.
What does a Architect earn?
Median $225000 from 45 postings across 26 companies.
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