Principal Software Engineer, Platform Engineering (AI)

Location: Cambridge, Massachusetts, with a 70/30 in-office work model. Due to U.S. export control requirements, only U.S. persons are eligible; visa sponsorship is not available.

Salary: $142,500–$256,500 per year, with potential discretionary bonus, incentive compensation, or equity.

Company

hirify.global develops mRNA technology and medicines through a broad research and development platform.

What you will do

• Design and build secure platform capabilities with Python or TypeScript, GitHub Actions, Pulumi, Docker, AWS, and internal or vendor APIs.
• Lead AI runtime safety and AI gateway patterns covering policy enforcement, access controls, telemetry, auditability, and operational controls.
• Build governed AI-assisted development workflows, reusable integrations, secure delivery paths, templates, and reference implementations.
• Partner with Cybersecurity, Architecture, AI platform, and engineering teams on standards, adoption strategies, risk posture, and technical tradeoffs.
• Improve developer experience by reducing setup time, eliminating manual toil, and standardizing secure workflows.
• Establish monitoring, alerting, dashboards, runbooks, support models, service ownership, and lifecycle management for platform capabilities.

Requirements

• 10+ years of experience in software engineering, platform engineering, DevOps, infrastructure automation, or secure software delivery.
• Deep experience designing, implementing, and operating developer platforms, internal tools, CI/CD systems, or secure software delivery platforms.
• Very strong programming skills in Python or TypeScript/JavaScript and significant experience with GitHub, GitHub Actions, and modern software delivery.
• Significant AWS or other cloud experience, plus Docker and containerized applications.
• Strong knowledge of software supply chain security, dependency management, vulnerability scanning, artifact management, secrets, identity, authorization, and policy enforcement.
• Must qualify as a U.S. person under U.S. export control laws.

Nice to have

• Experience with AI-assisted development tooling, AI gateways, model or API access controls, policy-as-code, telemetry, or runtime safety.
• Experience with Pulumi, CDK, Terraform, Kubernetes, container security, secrets management, or network isolation.
• Experience building internal developer platforms, paved-road workflows, reusable templates, CLIs, or scaffolding systems.
• Experience shaping platform strategy and technical roadmaps adopted by multiple engineering teams.

Culture & Benefits

• In-person collaboration supported through a 70/30 in-office work model.
• Competitive healthcare and voluntary benefit programs.
• Fitness, mindfulness, and mental health resources.
• Family planning benefits, including fertility, adoption, and surrogacy support.
• Paid vacation, volunteer days, sabbatical, global recharge days, and discretionary year-end shutdown.
• Savings and investment programs, plus location-specific perks.