Principal Platform Engineer (AI/Identity Platform)

Location: Dublin, Ireland; hybrid work opportunities

Company

hirify.global develops AI-native, cloud-based enterprise software for asset, operations, and critical-service management.

What you will do

• Build and operate shared authentication and authorisation capabilities across cloud-native, legacy hosting, and lifecycle cloud environments.
• Design platform services, APIs, integrations, and automation for secure identity and access management.
• Develop infrastructure and automation code, including Go-based tooling and services, and establish reusable engineering patterns.
• Automate provisioning, configuration, deployment, upgrades, recovery, and self-service workflows.
• Operate Kubernetes-based, containerised services with observability, performance testing, safe rollouts, rollback, backup, and recovery.

Requirements

• Substantial hands-on experience building and operating platforms or shared infrastructure for software engineering teams.
• Strong coding and scripting skills applied to infrastructure, automation, deployment tooling, or integrations, with experience using automated tests and version-controlled workflows.
• Production experience with Kubernetes, containers, a major public cloud, Infrastructure as Code, CI/CD, and GitOps.
• Practical experience implementing authentication and access control, including OAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect, token lifecycle management, permission models, least privilege, and tenant isolation.
• Understanding of APIs, networking, data stores, distributed systems, production troubleshooting, and technical leadership through design decisions and code reviews.
• Ability to translate security requirements into working software, automated tests, and maintainable platform capabilities.

Nice to have

• Production experience with Curity, Keycloak, SpiceDB, or comparable fine-grained authorisation and identity platforms.
• Experience with enterprise federation, SAML, policy-as-code, or authentication and authorisation in distributed multi-tenant systems.
• Experience building self-service identity APIs or SDKs for engineering teams.
• Production experience with Go, PostgreSQL, Kafka, or Redpanda.
• Hands-on experience designing, building, and shipping production AI applications.

Culture & Benefits

• Hybrid work opportunities with flexibility to support different working styles.
• Work in a diverse, international enterprise software environment.
• Technical ownership from design through production, with an emphasis on clear reasoning, constructive challenge, and accountability.
• Opportunity to contribute to AI-native software, sustainability initiatives, and large-scale enterprise platforms.