# Principal Architect

**Company**: Adobe
**Location**: San Jose, CA
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $190,200 - $360,500 annually
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

We are looking for a Principal Architect to drive the architectural evolution of Adobe's Enterprise Customer Experience platform and applications. You will partner closely with engineering, product, and business leaders to define architecture strategy, influence product direction, and deliver highly scalable systems that support global-scale workloads, ensure data governance, and drive AI solutions.

**Key Responsibilities**

- Define and drive end-to-end system architecture for large-scale data management, ensuring performance, security, and reliability

- Drive the development, integration and adoption of AI-native services (including Agentic Tools, Skills and Context-sensitive Agentic Loops)

- Partner with engineering and product leadership to translate business requirements into technical architecture

- Lead architectural reviews, guide design decisions, and ensure adherence to best practices

- Establish standards for scalability, observability, resiliency, and cost efficiency

- Influence cross-team alignment and provide thought leadership across the organization

- Mentor senior engineers and architects; elevate overall technical capability

- Represent architecture strategy in executive discussions and customer engagement

**Basic Qualifications**

- 20+ years of experience in software engineering with strong focus on end-to-end systems and application development

- Proven experience designing and operating large-scale, reliable distributed systems (high performance and high availability)

- Strong experience with microservices, APIs, and platform engineering

- Familiarity with Agentic AI solution design and development

- Demonstrated ability to influence org-wide teams and drive architecture at scale

- Excellent communication skills with ability to engage both technical and non-technical stakeholders

**Preferred Qualifications**

- Experience with streaming data platforms and real-time processing frameworks (e.g., Kafka, Spark)

- Experience in developing Agentic AI systems and solutions

- Background in building developer platforms or cloud-enabled products

- Experience working in highly matrixed, enterprise-scale environments

- Advanced degree (M.S. or Ph.D.) in Computer Science or related field

**Success Profile**

- Strong systems thinker with ability to simplify complex problems

- High ownership and bias for execution

- Ability to operate at both hands-on technical depth and strategic leadership level

- Proven track record of building scalable, enterprise-grade systems and applications

## Skills

### Required
- data management
- distributed systems
- Agentic AI technologies
- microservices
- APIs
- platform engineering

### Nice to have
- streaming data platforms
- real-time processing frameworks
- Kafka
- Spark
- Agentic AI systems
- developer platforms
- cloud-enabled products

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