Principal Engineer - AI Security

Role Type: Highly experienced, hands-on Principal Engineer / Architect

Location: Bengaluru, Karnataka, India (On-site)

Work from Office: Monday - Friday

About GlobalGuard

GlobalGuard is a cybersecurity company protecting critical communications, data and cloud environments against evolving threats. We are expanding into AI security and governance to help organisations adopt AI safely and responsibly.

Role Overview

We are seeking a highly experienced, hands-on Principal Engineer / Architect to become a technical owner of an emerging AI security and governance platform. This is not an architecture-only or management role. You will shape technical direction, write production code, validate new approaches and turn an evolving product vision into a secure, scalable commercial offering.

Experience Requirements

- Minimum 3 years of hands-on Golang (Go) experience, supported by strong programming fundamentals and practical software engineering experience.
- Proven hands-on solution architecture experience, including personally designing and implementing end-to-end technical solutions.
- Experience building, deploying, operating and troubleshooting production-grade systems.
- Ability to independently make architectural decisions, evaluate trade-offs and design scalable, secure, reliable and maintainable systems.

Key Responsibilities

- Take end-to-end ownership from requirements and architecture through implementation, testing, deployment and production support.
- Design and build secure backend services, APIs, integrations and high-volume data-processing capabilities using Go.
- Remain actively hands-on with coding, code review, debugging, performance optimisation, concurrency and memory management.
- Translate functional and non-functional requirements into practical system components, interfaces, dependencies and delivery plans.
- Evaluate architectural alternatives, justify technology choices and clearly explain trade-offs, limitations and risks.
- Identify bottlenecks, single points of failure and failure scenarios, then design appropriate resilience, observability and recovery mechanisms.




- Build prototypes to validate high-risk assumptions and use evidence to guide architecture and technology decisions.
- Establish effective CI/CD, infrastructure-as-code, automated testing, logging, metrics, tracing, release and operational-readiness practices.
- Design security, policy and enforcement capabilities for an enterprise AI-security platform.
- Evaluate open-source and commercial technologies while protecting security, reliability and maintainability.
- Work closely with product, security and business stakeholders, and help define the engineering team that will grow around the product.

Technical Requirements

- Strong Golang backend or systems engineering skills, with experience delivering complete solutions rather than focusing mainly on maintenance or routine bug fixes.
- Experience with distributed and cloud-native systems, secure APIs and scalable data-processing services.
- Strong Linux and networking fundamentals, including DNS, TCP/IP, routing, ports, HTTP/HTTPS, TLS, certificates and proxies.
- Clear understanding of authentication, authorisation, identity management and policy-based access control.
- Experience with Docker, Kubernetes and infrastructure-as-code technologies such as Terraform.
- Production engineering experience covering observability, incident response, root-cause analysis and operational resilience.
- Practical experience with up-to-date large language models or agentic AI architectures, including tool use, retrieval, memory or emerging protocols.
- Understanding of AI-security risks such as prompt injection, sensitive-data exposure, excessive agency and unsafe interactions.
- Strong Python capability and familiarity with modern TypeScript/JavaScript ecosystems. Exposure to Rust, C/C++, Java or C# is beneficial.





Problem-Solving and Communication

- Analyse technical problems systematically, clarify requirements and constraints, and validate assumptions through testing and evidence.
- Investigate issues across application, system, networking and integration layers using logs, metrics, traces and debuggers.
- Clearly explain personal contributions, technical decisions, implementation details, challenges and outcomes using concrete examples.
- Document system designs, implementation approaches and operational procedures.

What Success Looks Like

- Turn the product vision into an executable technical roadmap and a secure, scalable platform architecture.
- De-risk critical assumptions through focused prototypes and working software.
- Deliver integrated commercial product capabilities with reliable development, deployment and production practices.
- Take accountability for technical decisions, delivery outcomes and production quality.
- Become a trusted technical authority and identify the next engineering capabilities and hires required.

Highly Desirable Experience

- Commercial cybersecurity products or security platforms.
- Endpoint, network, cloud, data or API security.
- Identity, access management and policy systems.
- Large-scale telemetry, analytics or event-processing platforms.
- Low-level operating-system telemetry, programmable proxies or service-mesh technologies.
- AI security, adversarial testing or governance technologies.

Ideal Candidate

You are a hands-on Golang engineer and practical solution architect who can independently build, deploy and troubleshoot production-grade systems. You are comfortable working in an emerging area where established patterns may not exist, and you can research options, prototype approaches, measure results and decide how the production solution should work.

Candidates must demonstrate both hands-on coding expertise and practical architecture skills. Experience limited primarily to security testing or analysis, routine bug fixes, or theoretical architecture without implementation ownership will not be sufficient.

📌 Principle Engineer - AI Security (Immediate joiners only. Work From Office: M-F) (Bengaluru)
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