Principal Platform Engineer (Identity Platform)

Location: Hybrid role based in 's-Hertogenbosch, North Brabant, Netherlands

Company

hirify.global develops AI-native, cloud-based enterprise software for managing assets, operations, and critical services at global scale.

What you will do

• Build and operate shared authentication and authorisation platform services, APIs, integrations, and automation.
• Help unify authorisation across cloud-native, legacy hosting, and lifecycle cloud environments.
• Write and review infrastructure, automation, tooling, and Go-based service code.
• Create documented, automated, self-service workflows for product engineering teams.
• Own platform capabilities in production, including reliability, 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, with experience using automated tests and version control.
• 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.
• Understanding of APIs, networking, data stores, distributed systems, and production troubleshooting.
• Ability to translate security requirements into maintainable software, automated tests, and 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 identity systems in distributed, multi-tenant environments.
• Experience building self-service identity APIs or SDKs for engineering teams.
• Production experience with Go, PostgreSQL, Kafka, or RedPanda.

Culture & Benefits

• Hybrid work opportunities combined with inclusive workplace experiences.
• Flexible, collaborative environment with ownership from design through production.
• Work on AI-native enterprise software with cloud-native technologies and production AI systems.
• International environment focused on innovation, sustainability, diversity, and technical impact.