Appgate

Appgate

Staff / Principal Platform Engineer

New York, New York, United States · Principal · Contract

Sponsorship not specified$185k-$225kDetected 36 days ago
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About the role

  • As we expand our platform, we are standing up a new AI Platform & Infrastructure team: the engine room of AppGate's AI strategy.
  • You combine deep DevOps and cloud infrastructure expertise with hands-on experience operationalizing AI/ML systems, and you treat observability as a first-class engineering discipline.
  • This is a rare opportunity to join a small, private, high-impact company where your work directly shapes the architecture, reliability and core platform that defines the future of security.

Responsibilities

  • Build the Platform: design, build and operate the cloud infrastructure, services and pipelines that AppGate's AI and cloud products run on.
  • Operationalize AI/ML: build model serving and inference pipelines, experiment tracking and the MLOps tooling for deployment, versioning, drift monitoring and lifecycle management.
  • Automate everything - deliver infrastructure-as-code, CI/CD and self-service tooling so product teams ship safely and quickly.
  • Set technical direction: define platform standards, architecture and best practices, and raise the engineering bar through design reviews and mentorship.
  • design, build and operate the cloud infrastructure, services and pipelines that AppGate's AI and cloud products run on.

Requirements

  • Staff-level candidates typically bring 8+ years and Principal-level candidates 12+ years, though we hire on demonstrated impact.
  • extensive platform, infrastructure or SRE engineering experience, with a track record of operating production systems at scale.
  • Observability expertise:
  • Strong experience with self-managed technologies (kafka, elasticsearch) and Kubernetes are a must.

Nice to have

  • You can reason about traffic paths, latency and throughput end-to-end, and instrument the network as a first-class observability signal.
  • In furtherance of AppGate's policy regarding affirmative action and equal employment opportunity, AppGate has developed a written affirmative action program.
  • This program is available for review upon request by any applicant or employee during normal business hours by contacting the company's EEO Coordinator.
  • Networking & Zero Trust fundamentals:

Skills

  • familiarity with real-time and batch ingestion pipelines, feature stores and data quality at production scale.
  • Mindset: pragmatic, rigorous and ownership-driven.

Compensation

  • $185k-$225k

Benefits

  • Implement Observability: instrument APIs, cloud services and AI/ML infrastructure with metrics, logging, tracing and alerting, and define SLOs and operational health metrics that teams trust.
  • Collaborate cross-functionally: partner with data scientists, product teams and leadership to align platform investment with AppGate's strategic vision.
  • 215k-270k base We offer performance bonuses and considerable equity.

Company info

  • Vangie Shue - Principal Engineering Manager About AppGate AppGate secures and protects an organization's most valuable assets with its high performance Zero Trust Network Access (ZTNA) solution and Cyber Advisory Services.
  • AppGate ZTNA is the only direct-routed Zero Trust solution built for peak performance, superior protection and seamless interoperability.
  • AppGate Cyber Advisory Services harden your security posture and ensure business continuity.
  • AppGate safeguards Fortune 500 enterprises and government agencies worldwide.
  • Learn more at appgate.com.
  • About the Role As we expand our platform, we are standing up a new

Equal opportunity

  • AppGate is An Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer and a federal contractor subject to the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 and the Vietnam Era Veterans Readjustment Assistance Act of 1974 as amended, and their corresponding regulations.
  • Further, AppGate is an affirmative action employer committed to taking positive steps to employ, advance in employment and otherwise afford equal employment opportunity to protected veterans and individuals with disabilities.
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