Principal AI Platform Engineer: Enterprise Governance

BMO U.S.; New York (NY); On-site; USD 100,000 - 220,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Tuition reimbursement

Retirement savings plans

Job summary

BMO is seeking a Principal Engineer to own enterprise AI platform capabilities end to end, spanning the AI gateway, policy engine, identity fabric, and observability. You will operate production infrastructure across AWS and Azure, delivering governance, guardrails, and runtime evidence required for regulatory review.

You will mentor peers, design scalable platform services, and collaborate with AI security and SDLC teams to raise engineering standards in a regulated banking environment.

Qualifications

• 8+ years in software/platform engineering; leadership or principal level preferred.
• Experience operating production infrastructure with SLOs and on‑call ownership.
• Regulated industry experience is strongly preferred.
• Depth in API gateways, policy‑as‑code, workload identity, observability, or audit platforms.

Responsibilities

• Own capabilities end to end: design, implement, test, ship and operate production infrastructure.
• Engineer for operability with instrumentation, SLOs, latency budgets, failure modes.
• Build APIs, interfaces, and integrations for domains and enterprise systems.
• Implement policy enforcement, guardrails, identity attestation, and audit as core concerns.
• Ensure runtime evidence connects AI activity to policy, identity and lineage.
• Assess AI infrastructure trends and make cost‑aware engineering choices.
• Mentor teammates and raise the bar on engineering standards.

Skills

Distributed systems

Python

Go

Cloud-native

CI/CD

GitOps

Security

On-call

SRE practices

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Software Eng

MS preferred

Tools

AWS

Azure

Kubernetes

Terraform

CDK

Job description

BMO is seeking a Principal Engineer to own enterprise AI platform capabilities end to end, spanning the AI gateway, policy engine, identity fabric, and observability. You will operate production infrastructure across AWS and Azure, delivering governance, guardrails, and runtime evidence required for regulatory review.

You will mentor peers, design scalable platform services, and collaborate with AI security and SDLC teams to raise engineering standards in a regulated banking environment.