Principal Software Engineer, SecureAI

Role and team

Responsibilities

• Set technical direction for Agent Access Policies and make cross-cutting decisions that keep the framework coherent.
• Design distributed systems for throughput, reliability, and consistency at scale.
• Translate ambiguous platform problems into clear, modular technical designs.
• Build platform capabilities for both human and agent users.
• Set engineering standards, lead constructive reviews, and mentor engineers.
• Align architecture with leads in adjacent teams.
• Advance AI-native development practices across design, review, and software delivery.
• Address technical debt and improve CI/CD, observability, documentation, reliability, and support processes.
• Partner with Product and Design to own customer outcomes and raise the team’s technical bar.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of software engineering experience and a track record as a Principal- or Staff-level individual contributor.
• Extensive experience designing and operating high-scale, reliable backend and event-driven systems.
• Ability to own ambiguous problems and define technical direction independently.
• Experience collaborating across engineering, product, and architecture.
• Experience defining scalable backend architectures and integrating complex APIs with modern web technologies.
• Strong understanding of web authentication, authorization, and protection of sensitive user data.
• Deep expertise in reliable, secure, enterprise-grade software using Java or another type-safe language.
• Bachelor’s or master’s degree in computer science or a related field.

Additional experience

• Leading a team through changes in AI adoption, developer tooling, or engineering culture is a plus.
• Identity, authorization, or IAM protocol experience, including OAuth, OIDC, or SAML, is extra credit.
• Hands-on familiarity with agentic tooling, MCP, or LLM-facing design is extra credit.

Compensation

• Canada annual base salary range is CAD $184,000–$253,000; compensation may also include equity, bonus, and benefits.

Workplace

• The posting is tagged hybrid.

Benefits

• Benefits include health, dental, and vision insurance, RRSP matching, healthcare spending, telemedicine, and paid leave, subject to applicable plans and policies.
• The company describes in-person onboarding as part of the employee experience.