Principal AI Platform Engineer: Governed, Scalable Infra

BMO

Chicago (IL)

On-site

USD 137,000 - 185,000

Full time

14 days+

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Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance
Tuition reimbursement
Accident and life insurance
Retirement savings plans

Job summary

Bank of Montreal is seeking a Principal/Senior Engineer to design, build and operate enterprise AI platform capabilities across AWS and Azure, including the AI Gateway, Policy Engine, and Observability. You will own end-to-end platform components, ensure on-call readiness, and produce runtime evidence for regulatory reviews in a large, regulated financial services environment.

You will mentor teams, drive security, identity, and governance, implement policy-as-code, and advance the guardrails

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related technical discipline.
  • Master's degree preferred.
  • Experience operating production infrastructure with SLOs and on-call ownership.

Responsibilities

  • Design, implement, test, and operate production platform capabilities end to end.
  • Build APIs, interfaces, and integrations for domain teams and enterprise systems.
  • Implement policy enforcement, guardrails, identity attestation, and audit as core engineering concerns.

Skills

Distributed systems
Python/Go
Cloud-native
CI/CD & GitOps
Security & IAM
Observability
SRE/On-call
Policy-as-code
Zero-trust / Identity

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science/Software Engineering
Master's degree preferred

Tools

Kubernetes
Terraform
CDK / CloudFormation
AWS
Azure
OpenTelemetry

Job description

Bank of Montreal is seeking a Principal/Senior Engineer to design, build and operate enterprise AI platform capabilities across AWS and Azure, including the AI Gateway, Policy Engine, and Observability. You will own end-to-end platform components, ensure on-call readiness, and produce runtime evidence for regulatory reviews in a large, regulated financial services environment.

You will mentor teams, drive security, identity, and governance, implement policy-as-code, and advance the guardrails

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