Principal Engineer (AI Security)

Location: Hybrid in San Jose, United States of America

Annual base pay: $225,600–$338,400

Company

hirify.global develops cybersecurity, application delivery, and AI security solutions that help organizations create, secure, and run applications.

What you will do

• Design, code, and deploy resilient, scalable features for enterprise AI control planes and data planes using Go, C, or Rust.
• Implement security controls, semantic policy enforcement, rate limiting, load distribution, and observability for high-throughput AI workloads and LLM pipelines.
• Build Kubernetes-native operators, custom resource definitions, and high-performance proxy plugins for multi-cloud and on-premises environments.
• Own end-to-end component design, data plane efficiency, control plane integrations, and AI security and traffic delivery controls.
• Mentor senior and staff engineers, conduct architectural reviews, and drive code quality and engineering best practices.
• Collaborate with product management and platform architects to refine specifications and deliver platform releases.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or equivalent experience.
• 12+ years of software engineering experience building high-performance networking, API gateway, application delivery, distributed control plane, or cloud security infrastructure software.
• Strong hands-on programming skills in Go, C, or Rust.
• Experience with Kubernetes internals, container orchestration, and multi-cloud networking primitives across AWS, Azure, GCP, and private cloud.
• Understanding of the AI Software Development Lifecycle, modern AI application platforms, traffic optimization, and enterprise security protocols.
• Ability to drive complex technical projects from concept through production deployment.

Culture & Benefits

• Hybrid work environment in San Jose.
• Inclusive workplace focused on helping individuals thrive.
• Benefits are available, with additional incentive compensation, bonuses, and restricted stock units potentially offered.