Principal Software Engineer (Python)

TL;DR

Principal Software Engineer (Python): Building a developer-first platform for software supply chain trust and provenance infrastructure with an accent on traceability from source code to deployed artifacts. Focus on designing provenance ingestion services, building cryptographic validation engines, and solving large-scale data query challenges.

Location: Remote (Ireland)

Company

hirify.global is building the next generation of software supply chain trust and provenance infrastructure.

What you will do

• Design and build provenance ingestion services for CI/CD systems and artifact registries.
• Capture and store signed provenance metadata and artifact relationships.
• Build validation engines to verify cryptographic integrity and trust policies.
• Develop APIs that expose traceable supply chain data to customers and internal systems.
• Solve large-scale ingestion, storage, and query challenges around artifact and pipeline data.

Requirements

• Strong domain knowledge in artifact management and software supply chains.
• Experience working with provenance, attestations, SBOMs, or build metadata.
• Strong backend engineering experience, preferably with Python.
• Experience designing data ingestion pipelines and scalable backend services.
• Familiarity with cloud-native systems and multi-tenant SaaS platforms.
• Must be based in Ireland.