Principal AI Platform Engineer: Governance & Guardrails

BMO; United States; Remote; USD 86,000 - 185,000; Full time

Job summary

BMO is seeking a Principal/Senior Engineer for the AI Platform and Fabrics group. This build-and-run role focuses on the governance and runtime evidence layer across AI platforms, including the AI Gateway, Policy Engine, and Observability.

You will own end-to-end platform capabilities in production across AWS and Azure, with on-call responsibilities. The ideal candidate has 8+ years of platform engineering experience, strong distributed systems fundamentals, and deep skills in Python/Go,

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related field.
• 8+ years of software/platform engineering experience at scale.
• Experience operating production infrastructure with on-call ownership.

Responsibilities

• Own capabilities end to end: design, implement, test, ship, and operate production infrastructure.
• Engineer for operability with instrumentation, SLOs, latency budgets, and audit trails.
• Build APIs, interfaces, and integrations for domain 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.
• Mentor teammates and raise engineering standards.

Skills

Distributed systems

Python/Go

AWS/Azure

CI/CD DevSecOps

GitOps

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or Software Engineering

Master’s degree preferred

Tools

Jira

Confluence

Kubernetes

Terraform

CloudFormation/ARM

Job description

BMO is seeking a Principal/Senior Engineer for the AI Platform and Fabrics group. This build-and-run role focuses on the governance and runtime evidence layer across AI platforms, including the AI Gateway, Policy Engine, and Observability.

You will own end-to-end platform capabilities in production across AWS and Azure, with on-call responsibilities. The ideal candidate has 8+ years of platform engineering experience, strong distributed systems fundamentals, and deep skills in Python/Go,