Principal Platform Engineer (Identity Platform)

Location: Krakow, Lesser Poland, Poland; hybrid work opportunities

Company

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

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 secure, documented, automated self-service workflows for product engineering teams.
• Write and review infrastructure, automation, Go tooling, and platform service code.
• Operate production systems with observability, performance testing, safe rollouts, rollback, backup, and recovery practices.
• Provide technical leadership through architecture 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, including automated testing.
• Production experience with Kubernetes, containers, a major public cloud, Infrastructure as Code, CI/CD, and GitOps.
• Practical experience implementing authentication and access control in applications, APIs, or shared platform services.
• Working knowledge of OAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect, token-based authentication, permission models, least privilege, and tenant isolation.
• Ability to troubleshoot distributed systems and 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 engines.
• Experience with enterprise federation, SAML, policy-as-code, or authentication and authorisation in distributed multi-tenant systems.
• Production experience with Go, PostgreSQL, Kafka, or Redpanda.
• Experience building self-service identity APIs or SDKs for engineering teams.

Culture & Benefits

• Hybrid work opportunities with flexibility to support different working needs.
• Inclusive, international environment focused on collaboration, trust, sustainability, and technical ownership.
• Opportunity to work on AI-native enterprise software and critical platform capabilities used across the engineering organisation.