{"schemaVersion":"jobsearcher.job.v1","id":"482188d93b419993d75e174b","url":"https://jobsearcher.com/jobs/482188d93b419993d75e174b","canonicalUrl":"https://jobsearcher.com/jobs/482188d93b419993d75e174b","title":"Software Engineer","description":"Well-funded AI Infrastructure Start-up - Software Engineer – AI GatewayThey are building the runtime control plane for the agentic enterprise, giving organizations the visibility, security, and governance needed to deploy AI agents safely at scale. The platform helps enterprises discover and monitor agents, understand their behavior, enforce security policies, and control how they interact with models, applications, data, and employee environments.\r\nWe’re looking for a Software Engineer to build their identity-native AI gateway.\r\nThe gateway sits directly in the path between enterprise users, AI agents, models, tools, and sensitive systems. You’ll work on the core data plane responsible for model routing, authentication, authorization, credential brokering, tool and MCP governance, observability, failover, and high-performance traffic management.\r\nUnlike a traditional backend engineering position, development is closely connected to real enterprise deployments. You’ll build against committed customer requirements and work with live production traffic inside sophisticated enterprise environments.\r\nWhat You’ll DoDesign and build the core AI gateway and proxy/data-plane infrastructure.\r\nDevelop high-performance services primarily using Go and/or Rust.\r\nBuild model-routing, load-balancing, resiliency, and failover capabilities.\r\nImplement governance and policy enforcement for AI agents, tools, APIs, and MCP servers.\r\nBuild secure credential-brokering mechanisms for agents accessing enterprise systems.\r\nIntegrate with identity providers including Okta and Microsoft Entra ID.\r\nIntegrate with secrets and privileged-access infrastructure such as CyberArk and HashiCorp Vault.\r\nWork extensively with OAuth, OIDC, authentication, authorization, and enterprise identity.\r\nDeploy, tune, and troubleshoot gateway infrastructure in Kubernetes environments.\r\nDiagnose performance, reliability, networking, and scaling issues using real customer traffic.\r\nTranslate complex enterprise requirements into scalable product capabilities.\r\nWhat We’re Looking For2–5 years of software engineering experience.\r\nStrong experience with Go, Rust, or comparable systems/backend languages.\r\nExperience building proxies, gateways, networking infrastructure, service meshes, distributed systems, or high-throughput backend services.\r\nStrong knowledge of Kubernetes and cloud-native infrastructure.\r\nUnderstanding of OAuth 2.0, OIDC, identity, authentication, and authorization.\r\nExperience designing highly available, performance-sensitive production systems.\r\nComfortable debugging complex networking and infrastructure problems.\r\nInterest in AI infrastructure, agent architectures, MCP, and enterprise AI security.#J-18808-Ljbffr","company":"Xcede","rawCompany":"xcede","city":"Millbrae","state":"CA","isRemote":false,"isActive":false,"createdAt":"2026-10-04T02:10:43.554Z","occupations":[{"code":"15-1252.00","title":"Software Developers","slug":"software-developers"},{"code":"15-1299.08","title":"Computer Systems Engineers/Architects","slug":"computer-systems-engineers-architects"},{"code":"15-1251.00","title":"Computer Programmers","slug":"computer-programmers"}],"industries":[{"code":"513210","title":"Software Publishers","slug":"software-publishers"},{"code":"541511","title":"Custom Computer Programming Services","slug":"custom-computer-programming-services"},{"code":"541512","title":"Computer Systems Design Services","slug":"computer-systems-design-services"}],"jobPosting":{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"JobPosting","title":"Software Engineer","description":"Well-funded AI Infrastructure Start-up - Software Engineer – AI GatewayThey are building the runtime control plane for the agentic enterprise, giving organizations the visibility, security, and governance needed to deploy AI agents safely at scale. 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