Principal Platform Engineer (Identity Platform)

Location: Paris, Île-de-France Region, France; hybrid work opportunities.

Company

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

What you will do

• Build and operate shared authentication and authorisation platform services, APIs, integrations, and automation.
• Unify authorisation across cloud-native, legacy hosting, and lifecycle cloud environments.
• Develop infrastructure and automation code, including Go-based tooling and services.
• Create documented, automated, self-service workflows for product engineering teams.
• Own platform capabilities in production, including observability, performance, safe rollouts, rollback, backup, and recovery.
• Provide technical leadership through design decisions, code reviews, engineering standards, and support for other engineers.

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.
• 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-based authentication, permission models, least privilege, and tenant isolation.
• Experience with APIs, networking, data stores, distributed systems, automated testing, and production troubleshooting.
• Ability to work with Go-based tooling and services; application or backend development experience is advantageous but not required.

Nice to have

• Production experience with Curity, Keycloak, SpiceDB, or comparable identity and authorisation platforms.
• Experience with enterprise federation, SAML, policy-as-code, or distributed multi-tenant identity systems.
• Experience building self-service identity capabilities, APIs, or SDKs for engineering teams.
• Production experience with Go, PostgreSQL, Kafka, or RedPanda.

Culture & Benefits

• Hybrid work opportunities with flexibility to support different working styles.
• Inclusive, international environment with colleagues across global locations.
• Emphasis on collaboration, clear technical reasoning, constructive challenge, and ownership from design through production.
• Opportunity to contribute to AI-native enterprise software and sustainability-focused initiatives.