Remote AI Tooling Infra Engineer — Production & SRE Ownership

Jobgether; Portugal; Remote; EUR 70,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Fully Remote

Co-working Allowance

Equity Ownership

Technology Allowance

Health Insurance

Annual Company Off-sites

Flexible Working Arrangements

Professional Development

Global Collaboration

Job summary

Jobgether is seeking a Software Engineer – AI Tooling Infrastructure, based in Portugal, to own production backend services powering AI-driven developer tools. You’ll design scalable architectures, ensure reliability and security, and collaborate with SRE, Platform, and edge teams in a remote-first setting.

The role emphasizes on-call readiness, API design, OAuth/OIDC/JWT, and observability. You’ll help shape MCP integrations and traffic management while advancing open-source practices and

Qualifications

• At least 5 years of experience building, deploying, and operating production backend services, including participation in on-call rotations.
• Strong programming skills in TypeScript or Go, with practical working knowledge of the other language.
• Proven experience designing and maintaining APIs, including versioning, error handling, rate limiting, and backward compatibility.
• Strong understanding of OAuth, OpenID Connect (OIDC), JWT, and API authorization, with the ability to troubleshoot authentication and permission issues in production environments.
• Good knowledge of PostgreSQL and relational database systems.
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines, Docker, containerized deployments, and Infrastructure as Code (IaC).
• Ability to troubleshoot distributed systems using metrics, logs, and traces to identify performance bottlenecks and service failures.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to collaborate across teams and work effectively in globally distributed, asynchronous environments.
• Adaptability, ownership, and the ability to navigate ambiguity while delivering solutions in fast-paced engineering environments.
• Deep expertise in APIs and Authentication or Production Operations or Gateways and Distributed Systems.

Responsibilities

• Build, deploy, operate, and scale production backend services supporting AI-powered developer tools, including MCP servers, agent skills, and AI assistants.
• Own service architecture and infrastructure decisions, improving system reliability, maintainability, scalability, and deployment processes.
• Define and monitor service reliability objectives (SLOs), track error budgets, and prioritize improvements in collaboration with Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) teams.
• Participate in the team's on-call rotation, investigate production incidents, coordinate resolutions, and develop incident reports, runbooks, and preventive solutions.
• Manage operational support requests and identify recurring issues that can be addressed through long-term engineering improvements.
• Design and maintain authentication and authorization systems for AI agents and machine clients, including OAuth applications, scoped tokens, permissions, and secure access management.
• Establish and maintain comprehensive observability through metrics, distributed tracing, logging, dashboards, and alerting systems.
• Manage AI agent traffic, implementing rate limits, capacity controls, cost safeguards, and mechanisms to handle dependency failures and unexpected traffic spikes.
• Collaborate with Platform, SRE, Authentication, Billing, and Edge Functions teams to improve shared infrastructure, release processes, security, and operational practices.
• Contribute to the development of AI tooling infrastructure, ensuring that reliability, security, and performance remain central to engineering decisions.

Skills

TypeScript

Go

APIs design

OAuth

OIDC

JWT

PostgreSQL

CI/CD

Docker

IaC

Observability

Distributed systems

Tools

Docker

OpenTelemetry

Job description

Jobgether is seeking a Software Engineer – AI Tooling Infrastructure, based in Portugal, to own production backend services powering AI-driven developer tools. You’ll design scalable architectures, ensure reliability and security, and collaborate with SRE, Platform, and edge teams in a remote-first setting.

The role emphasizes on-call readiness, API design, OAuth/OIDC/JWT, and observability. You’ll help shape MCP integrations and traffic management while advancing open-source practices and