Remote API & AI Governance Engineer II

CSAA; South Dakota; Remote; USD 85,000 - 104,000; Full time

Job summary

CSAA Insurance Group is seeking a Governance Engineer II to translate enterprise API, data, security, and responsible AI policies into automated governance solutions. You will develop governance-as-code, guardrails, and reusable standards to securely access enterprise data, tools, and MCP resources while collaborating with architecture, security, risk, data, and engineering teams.

You will strengthen API and AI security, automate compliance and approvals, and create self-service governance that

Qualifications

• 2+ years of experience in software engineering, API development, systems integration, platform engineering, DevSecOps, or a related technical field.
• Experience designing, developing, testing, and supporting REST APIs and integrations, including OpenAPI/Swagger specifications, API testing, and lifecycle management.
• Experience implementing engineering controls within CI/CD pipelines, including automated testing, API validation, contract testing, security scanning, or other governance-as-code practices.
• Working knowledge of API security concepts, including OAuth, authentication, authorization, access controls, and secure API design principles.
• Experience with modern API lifecycle and governance tools such as Postman, SwaggerHub, API catalogs, developer portals, API gateways, or similar platforms.
• Familiarity with AI-assisted engineering, agentic AI concepts, and the application of governance controls, traceability, approvals, and monitoring.
• Strong scripting or programming skills and the ability to translate governance, security, and compliance requirements into practical engineering solutions and automation.
• Strong analytical, communication, collaboration, and problem-solving skills.

Responsibilities

• Review API specifications and data contracts for alignment with enterprise REST, security, and data standards.
• Translate enterprise policies into implementable standards, controls, templates, and reusable patterns.
• Promote consistent API design, data definitions, schemas, metadata, error models, and access patterns.
• Maintain governance artifacts, including standards, reference implementations, reusable components, and technical guidance.
• Track compliance, exceptions, adoption, and remediation across engineering teams.
• Establish engineering guardrails for how AI agents discover, access, and invoke APIs, tools, and enterprise data.
• Implement controls for agent identity, authentication, authorization, least-privilege access, approvals, and human oversight.
• Define technical practices for agent evaluations, tool-use validation, traceability, auditability, and monitoring.
• Review agent workflows and AI-generated artifacts for security, quality, compliance, and alignment with approved policies.
• Partner with security, architecture, data, and responsible AI teams to operationalize enterprise policy without independently setting that policy.
• Support safe adoption of AI-assisted development tools and agentic capabilities across engineering teams.

Skills

Software engineering

API development

CI/CD pipelines

OpenAPI/Swagger

Security controls

Scripting

Tools

Postman

SwaggerHub

API catalogs

Job description

CSAA Insurance Group is seeking a Governance Engineer II to translate enterprise API, data, security, and responsible AI policies into automated governance solutions. You will develop governance-as-code, guardrails, and reusable standards to securely access enterprise data, tools, and MCP resources while collaborating with architecture, security, risk, data, and engineering teams.

You will strengthen API and AI security, automate compliance and approvals, and create self-service governance that