Lead AI Platform Engineer - Governance & Observability

BMO U.S.; Chicago Heights (IL); On-site; USD 100,000 - 220,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Tuition reimbursement

Accident and life insurance

Retirement savings plans

Job summary

BMO is building the platform capabilities that make enterprise AI safe, governed, and scalable. We are seeking Principal/Senior engineers to build and operate the core infrastructure that governs how AI runs at BMO — the AI Gateway, Policy Engine, Identity Fabric, AI Registry, Guardrails Runtime, and AI Observability.

You will own end-to-end platform capabilities: design, implement, and operate production infrastructure and provide runtime evidence for policy enforcement, identity, and lineage.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of software/platform engineering experience (Principal) or 5+ years (Senior) with enterprise-scale platforms.
• Experience operating production infrastructure with real SLOs and on-call ownership, ideally in financial services.
• Depth in API gateways/traffic enforcement; policy-as-code; workload identity/zero-trust; observability and telemetry pipelines; audit/compliance data platforms.

Responsibilities

• Own capabilities end to end: design, implement, test, ship, and operate production infrastructure.
• Mentor and raise the bar: set engineering standards, review designs and code, grow depth across the team.
• Build APIs, interfaces, and integrations for domains, DevOps pipelines, and enterprise systems to consume platform capabilities.
• Implement policy enforcement, guardrails, identity attestation, and audit as first-class engineering concerns.

Skills

Platform engineering

Distributed systems

Go or Python

CI/CD

GitOps

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Software Engineering

Master's degree preferred

Tools

AWS

Azure

Kubernetes

CI/CD toolchains

Job description

BMO is building the platform capabilities that make enterprise AI safe, governed, and scalable. We are seeking Principal/Senior engineers to build and operate the core infrastructure that governs how AI runs at BMO — the AI Gateway, Policy Engine, Identity Fabric, AI Registry, Guardrails Runtime, and AI Observability.

You will own end-to-end platform capabilities: design, implement, and operate production infrastructure and provide runtime evidence for policy enforcement, identity, and lineage.