CareerPlan

Principal Engineer

San Jose, USFull-time$226k–$338k2026-10-21 → 2026-11-10

Core

Design, code, and deploy resilient, scalable features for enterprise AI control planes and data planes, implementing advanced security controls and traffic delivery mechanisms for high-throughput AI workloads and LLM pipelines.

Role type

Principal Engineer (AI Security & Delivery Platform)

Builds

Enterprise AI control planes, data planes, Kubernetes-native operators, and high-performance proxy plugins

Domain

Cybersecurity, AI/ML infrastructure, Cloud Networking, Kubernetes

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

Go, C, Rust, Kubernetes internals, multi-cloud networking, AI software development lifecycle, high-performance networking, distributed control plane architecture

Preferred skills

None stated

Technologies

Go, C, Rust, Kubernetes, AWS, Azure, GCP

Responsibilities

Design and implement resilient features for AI control/data planes; Build Kubernetes-native operators and proxy plugins; Mentor senior/staff engineers and drive code quality; Collaborate with product management and platform architects on technical specifications

Seniority

Principal, hands-on technical leadership & mentorship