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Staff Engineer, Agentic Governance

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15 hours ago
Bucharest, RomaniaStaff+

Responsibilities

  • Design and build governance, security, and privacy services integrated with existing technical services.
  • Define how AI agents, tools, and MCP servers are authenticated, scoped, and observed across teams.
  • Lead architecture, security, threat-modeling, test-strategy, code-standard, and design reviews across business units.
  • Make technical decisions on ambiguous problems and establish patterns adopted by other Adobe teams.
  • Use AI-assisted development responsibly and improve agentic-component quality through evaluations, guardrails, and quality gates.
  • Mentor engineers and help shape hiring.

Requirements

  • 10+ years of professional software engineering experience, including technical leadership across teams.
  • Deep hands-on expertise with identity and authorization, including OAuth 2.0/OIDC, RBAC/ABAC, and policy engines such as OPA or Cedar.
  • Practical knowledge of production agentic systems and trade-offs involving tools, guardrails, latency, costs, and failure modes.
  • Expertise in Python and working proficiency in Java.
  • Experience leading the architecture of distributed production services on AWS and/or Azure and Kubernetes, including data stores, reliability, security, and observability.
  • Clear written and verbal communication in English.
  • Preferred: formal design authority or RFC authorship across organizations or business units.
  • Preferred: experience with responsible AI frameworks such as NIST AI RMF and the EU AI Act.
  • Preferred: privacy engineering involving data minimization and GDPR.
  • Preferred: open-source or published work in authorization, policy, or agent security.
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10,000+ employees

Adobe builds software for creative work, document workflows, and customer experience used by individuals, teams, and enterprises. Its products include Creative Cloud (Photoshop, Illustrator, Premiere Pro), Acrobat/Document Cloud, and Experience Cloud for marketing and analytics, sold primarily via subscriptions. Founded in 1982 and headquartered in San Jose, California, Adobe is a public company traded on NASDAQ under the ticker ADBE.

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