Staff Engineer, Agentic Governance

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Lead technical direction for agentic governance, designing security, privacy, and authorization services for AI agents.

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The Opportunity

We are looking for a Staff Engineer to lead the technical direction of Agentic Governance in Adobe's Experience Platform team in Bucharest.

Trust and Governance builds the services that enable Adobe Experience Platform customers to trust us with their data: access control, data usage policies and lineage enforcement, catalog, privacy and consent, audit and security capabilities such as customer-managed keys. Agentic Governance extends these foundations to AI agents: who an agent is, what it may do, and a verifiable record of what it did.

Enterprises are putting AI agents to work on their data, and AI regulation is setting the standard for governing them. This domain is new and owned from Bucharest: you will set how agents are identified, authorized, and audited across Adobe Experience Platform, with patterns other Adobe teams adopt.

What You'll Do

Design and build governance, security and privacy services, integrating with existing technical services.
Drive AI-first architecture across teams: define how agents, tools and MCP servers are authenticated, scoped and observed.
Be the domain's technical leader: lead design, architecture, security, and threat-model reviews across business units, set the test strategy and code standards, and decide on ambiguous problems.
Use AI-assisted development responsibly, and raise the team's practice with evals, guardrails, and quality gates for the agentic components we ship.
Mentor engineers and help shape hiring.

What You Need to Succeed

10+ years of professional software engineering experience, including technical leadership across teams.
Deep, hands-on expertise in identity and authorization: OAuth 2.0/OIDC, RBAC/ABAC, and policy engines (e.g. OPA, Cedar, or comparable). Applying them to workload or agent identity is a strong plus.
Practical knowledge of agentic systems in production, and can explain trade-offs for tools, guardrails, latency, costs and failure modes.
Expert in Python, with working proficiency in Java.
Lead the architecture of distributed production services on AWS and/or Azure and Kubernetes: data stores, reliability, security and observability.
Clear written and verbal communication in English.

Preferred Qualifications

Formal design authority or RFC authorship across organizations or business units.
Responsible AI frameworks (NIST AI RMF, EU AI Act).
Privacy engineering: data minimization and GDPR.
Open-source or published work in authorization, policy or agent security.

About Adobe

Adobe empowers everyone to create through innovative platforms and tools that unleash creativity, productivity and personalized customer experiences. Adobe’s industry-leading offerings including Adobe Acrobat Studio, Adobe Express, Adobe Firefly, Creative Cloud, Adobe Experience Platform, Adobe Experience Manager, and GenStudio enable people and businesses to turn ideas into impact, powered by AI and driven by human ingenuity.

Our 30,000+ employees worldwide are creating the future and raising the bar as we drive the next decade of growth. We’re on a mission to hire the very best and believe in creating a company culture where all employees are empowered to make an impact. At Adobe, we believe that great ideas can come from anywhere in the organization. The next big idea could be yours.

Let’s Adobe together

At Adobe, we believe in creating a company culture where all employees are empowered to make an impact. Learn more about Adobe life, including our values and culture, focus on people, purpose and community, Adobe for All, comprehensive benefits programs, the stories we tell, the customers we serve, and how you can help us advance our mission of empowering everyone to create.

Adobe is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. We do not discriminate based on gender, race or color, ethnicity or national origin, age, disability, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, veteran status, or any other protected characteristic. Learn more.

Adobe aims to make our Careers website and recruiting process accessible to any and all users. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation to navigate our website or complete the application process, email accommodations@adobe.com or call +1 408-536-3015.

AI Use Guidelines for Interviews:

Our interviews are designed to reflect your own skills and thinking. The use of AI or recording tools during live interviews is not permitted unless explicitly invited by the interviewer or approved in advance as part of a reasonable accommodation. If these tools are used inappropriately or in a way that misrepresents your work, your application may not move forward in the process.

About Adobe

Let’s Adobe together

AI Use Guidelines for Interviews:
Our interviews are designed to reflect your own skills and thinking. The use of AI or recording tools during live interviews is not permitted unless explicitly invited by the interviewer or approved in advance as part of a reasonable accommodation. If these tools are used inappropriately or in a way that misrepresents your work, your application may not move forward in the process.

At Adobe, we empower employees to innovate with AI — and we look for candidates eager to do the same. As part of the hiring experience, we provide clear guidance on where AI is encouraged during the process and where it’s restricted during live interviews. See how we think about AI in the hiring experience.

How we rate this

Staff Engineer, Agentic Governance at Adobe rates 85 out of 100 for how much of the daily work is AI. That makes it Builds AI (AI Level 4 of 4). The level is about AI in the job, not seniority.

Classification

Builds AI. The job is building AI systems.

●●●● Builds AI80 to 100
●●●○ Works on AI60 to 79
●●○○ Uses AI40 to 59
●○○○ Little AI0 to 39

Levels come from how often the tools, models and workflows of the role are named in the posting itself. Open the description and count.

Prepare for this job

A free preview built only from this posting: what it asks for, what you could be asked in an interview, and how to adjust your resume.

Skills and AI tools this role asks for

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Questions you could be asked

How do you decide when an AI agent can act on its own versus asking for approval first?
How do you think about the risk of an AI system in this kind of role failing silently?
Tell me about a project where identity and access management was part of your work. What did you do?
Tell me about a project where security was part of your work. What did you do?
Tell me about a project where agentic systems was part of your work. What did you do?

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List these exact terms on your resume: AI Agents, AI Safety, Identity And Access Management, Security, and Agentic Systems. An applicant tracking system matches the wording, not the idea.
Attach one line of real, concrete experience to at least one of them — a tool named with nothing behind it rarely survives a human read.
Lead with what you built, trained or shipped — this role is judged on the AI system itself, not the tools around it.

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