Impress employers and recruiters.
Choose from hundreds of resume examples.
Impress employers and recruiters.
Choose from hundreds of resume examples.
Target Resume Now
Tailor your resume to this Principal Architect — Adobe Stock role.
Rezi rewrites your resume against Adobe's job description. Free.
Tailor your resume to this Principal Architect — Adobe Stock role.
Rezi rewrites your resume against Adobe's job description. Free.
Don't guess if your resume is good enough.
See how it scores against the Principal Architect — Adobe Stock posting at Adobe — free, in seconds.
Don't guess if your resume is good enough.
See how it scores against the Principal Architect — Adobe Stock posting at Adobe — free, in seconds.
About the Role
Adobe Stock is seeking a Principal Architect to serve as the architectural authority. This role owns end-to-end architecture, guides the development of critical features and services, and translates strategic objectives into coherent, scalable, and achievable technical plans. Success demands outstanding technical judgment, skill in resolving complex disagreements across teams, and a demonstrated record of converting business objectives into production-grade systems and adopted architectural standards.
Responsibilities
- Set long-term architectural and technology direction in alignment with Adobe’s product, technical, and business strategy.
- Assess the architectural feasibility of strategic objectives, identifying dependencies, risks, tradeoffs, investment needs, and viable paths to execution.
- Lead the architecture of large-scale systems supporting content search, discovery, delivery, licensing, generative AI, agentic workflows, and customer experiences.
- Shape the integration of AI-native and agentic capabilities into production workflows.
- Establish architectural patterns and standards for APIs, microservices, frontend architecture, event-driven systems, data platforms, and cross-product integrations.
- Identify systemic technical risks and architectural gaps, then work with leaders to establish practical mitigation plans.
- Communicate Stock’s architectural direction, decisions, risks, and investment needs to senior executives and other key participants.
- Mentor architects and technical leads, strengthening systems thinking, technical judgment, and communication.
Requirements
- 20 or more years of experience in software engineering and platform architecture.
- Expertise in distributed systems, networked and event-driven architectures, APIs, frontend architecture, data platforms, cloud-native technologies, and systems integration.
- Experience designing systems for demanding performance, scalability, reliability, security, privacy, observability, and operational-efficiency requirements.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to explain complex decisions and tradeoffs to technical and nontechnical audiences.
Skills
- distributed systems
- networked architectures
- event-driven architectures
- APIs
- frontend architecture
- data platforms
- cloud-native technologies
- systems integration
- Agentic AI systems
- content platforms
- digital-asset systems
- marketplaces
- search and discovery systems
- large-scale media-processing workflows
Location
- U.S.
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Principal
- 20+ years
Education Level
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience in Computer Science, engineering, or a related technical field.
- Advanced degree (M.S. or Ph.D.) in Computer Science or related field
Salary/Compensations
- $190,200 - $360,500 annually
- $248,900 - $360,500 annually in California
Benefits
- Comprehensive benefits programs
About the Company
- 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.
- 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.
Equal Opportunity
- 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.
- 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.
- 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 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.
- Fair Chance Ordinances
- Adobe will consider qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records for employment in accordance with state and local laws and “fair chance” ordinances.
- Application Window Notice
- If this role is open to hiring in Colorado (as listed on the job posting), the application window will remain open until at least the date and time stated above in Pacific Time, in compliance with Colorado pay transparency regulations. If this role does not have Colorado listed as a hiring location, no specific application window applies, and the posting may close at any time based on hiring needs.
- Massachusetts Legal Notice
- It is unlawful in Massachusetts to require or administer a lie detector test as a condition of employment or continued employment. An employer who violates this law shall be subject to criminal penalties and civil liability.