Staff Engineer, Agentic Governance

About this role

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 an OOP language, with working proficiency in Python and/or 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.

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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.

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Expected Pay Range:

Our compensation reflects the cost of labor in a certain location, and we pay differently based on those defined markets. Please see below pay range(s) for this position based on the location(s) where this position can be filled:

Romania: 355,000 RON - 514,000 RON annually

Pay within the range(s) will depend on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience, and your recruiter can share more during the hiring process.

At Adobe, for non-sales roles salaries are expressed as base salary and short-term incentives are in the form of the Annual Incentive Plan (AIP). You will be eligible to participate in the AIP bonus plan. AIP bonus payout is subject to the applicable plan terms in connection with individual performance on an annual basis.

In addition, we offer a range of inclusive benefits to support you and your family — from medical, dental, and vision benefits to financial planning, employee assistance program, and learning opportunities. Explore benefits and perks at Adobe.