Principal AI Platform Engineer: Systems & Tooling

DVT; Cape Town; On-site; ZAR 1,200,000 - 1,800,000; Full time

Job summary

DVT seeks a Principal Engineer to lead AI augmented software engineering across a large, complex environment. This senior individual contributor role combines hands-on coding with architecture, tooling, and standards across multiple stacks.

The ideal candidate writes production code, builds reusable platforms, and shapes technical direction with influence rather than authority. Security, threat modelling and data protection are central to delivery.

Qualifications

• 10 or more years of software engineering experience.
• Senior, staff or principal level delivery experience.
• Hands-on production coding across multiple stacks.

Responsibilities

• Design and build platforms supporting AI assisted software development.
• Develop agentic workflows and context layers.
• Integrate AI capabilities into developer tooling and CI/CD.
• Establish guardrails and engineering standards for AI generated code.
• Mentor senior engineers and influence technical direction across teams.
• Ensure solutions meet security, regulatory and data protection requirements.

Skills

Technical leadership

Mentoring

Influence without authority

Communication with stakeholders

Architectural design

Education

Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

AWS

CI/CD

Java

.NET

React

Flutter

Job description

DVT seeks a Principal Engineer to lead AI augmented software engineering across a large, complex environment. This senior individual contributor role combines hands-on coding with architecture, tooling, and standards across multiple stacks.

The ideal candidate writes production code, builds reusable platforms, and shapes technical direction with influence rather than authority. Security, threat modelling and data protection are central to delivery.