Principal Software Engineer (AI)

TL;DR

Principal Software Engineer (AI Security): Designing and operating Cloud and Edge platform infrastructure for AI security deployments with an accent on automation, high availability, and AI-native applications. Focus on building CI/CD pipelines, developing observability platforms, and implementing agentic engineering workflows.

Location: Hybrid: Milpitas, California / Vancouver

Company

hirify.global provides AI-driven security solutions for leading global enterprises.

What you will do

• Design and operate the infrastructure powering Cloud and Edge platform deployments.
• Build deployment automation for distributed Edge PoPs, regional hubs, and customer data centers.
• Design highly available architectures supporting secure fail-closed operation and resilient policy synchronization.
• Build CI/CD pipelines, release automation, and lifecycle management for Cloud and Endpoint components.
• Develop observability platforms including logging, metrics, tracing, and audit pipelines.
• Implement AI-assisted engineering and build infrastructure supporting distributed agentic workloads.

Requirements

• 2+ years of Principal-level experience in platform engineering, DevOps, or Site Reliability Engineering.
• Deep experience operating Kubernetes and cloud-native platforms at enterprise scale.
• Strong proficiency with Terraform, Helm, GitHub Actions, ArgoCD, or Ansible.
• Experience with distributed networking, service meshes, proxies, DNS, and TLS.
• Strong Linux systems administration and infrastructure automation skills.
• Hands-on experience with AI-assisted development tools such as GitHub Copilot, Cursor, Claude Code, or ChatGPT.

Culture & Benefits

• Opportunity to be a founding member of hirify.global’s AI Security team.
• Eligibility for a discretionary bonus plan based on individual and organizational performance.
• Inclusive work environment as an equal opportunity employer.