Principal AI Platform Engineer — Remote & High-Impact

CreateFuture; City of Edinburgh; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

35 days leave (incl. bank holidays)

Private medical insurance

Enhanced parental and adoption leave

Pension match 5%

Learning & development 40 hours

Job summary

CreateFuture is an AI-native consulting partner that builds and operates the AI platform infrastructure connecting engineering teams with multiple LLM providers. You will help design and run the gateway, orchestration, and governance components to enable reusable AI capabilities at scale.

We value flexibility with hybrid and remote work options, with office hubs in Edinburgh, Leeds, Manchester, London and Bulgaria.

Qualifications

• Proficient in Python or Go with production experience.
• Experience running API gateways (Kong preferred).
• Familiar with RBAC/OIDC and API key lifecycle management.

Responsibilities

• Build, run, and evolve API gateway and routing layer for LLM workloads.
• Design orchestration and lifecycle management for AI capabilities and agents.
• Implement and maintain access controls and API key lifecycle practices.
• Develop caching, cost/latency strategies, and usage analytics.
• Contribute to API design, versioning, and production promotion workflows.
• Incorporate trust, safety, governance for scalable platforms.

Skills

Python

Go

Production experience

API gateway experience

RBAC/OIDC

Service registry patterns (MCP)

Tools

Kong

Envoy

Apigee

Job description

CreateFuture is an AI-native consulting partner that builds and operates the AI platform infrastructure connecting engineering teams with multiple LLM providers. You will help design and run the gateway, orchestration, and governance components to enable reusable AI capabilities at scale.

We value flexibility with hybrid and remote work options, with office hubs in Edinburgh, Leeds, Manchester, London and Bulgaria.