Senior AI Gateway Infrastructure Engineer (Remote)

Docker, Inc.; United States; Remote; USD 161,000 - 261,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote-first by design

Generous PTO and Whaleness Days

Technology stipend (US$100 net per mo)

Learning & development stipend

Parental leave – 16 weeks

Equity for all full-time employees

Comprehensive benefits

Job summary

Docker, Inc. is seeking an experienced backend engineer to design and build the AI Gateway core systems, including model routing, MCP gateway, and control planes.

You will create scalable, secure infra for dynamic routing, credential storage, and policy enforcement while shaping APIs for OpenAI-style interfaces. You will drive architectural decisions, mentor teammates, and optimize performance to scale with production workloads, all within a remote-first culture that supports global

Qualifications

• 6+ years of backend engineering experience with production-grade systems.
• Deep knowledge of distributed and highly scalable systems, cloud-native infrastructure, and API design.
• Experience building secure, high-throughput services (e.g., gateways, proxies, load balancers, policy engines).
• Fluency in Go, and/or Rust (both preferred).
• Familiarity with AI/ML platforms or model serving infrastructure.
• A strong product mindset—you're excited about building developer-facing tools.
• Ownership mentality with a bias for shipping, learning, and iterating.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement core systems powering the AI Gateway, including the model router, MCP gateway, and control plane.
• Build infrastructure that supports dynamic model selection/routing, auto-failover, cost-based routing, and policy enforcement.
• Own critical capabilities such as secure credential storage, session summarization, caching, and rate limiting.
• Develop APIs for developers building with OpenAI-compatible interfaces and the Model Context Protocol.
• Build the underlying infrastructure to support evaluation, telemetry, replay, and backtesting for agents and LLM workflows.
• Lead architectural decisions and mentor engineers as the team scales.
• Performance tuning - caching, session summarization, and rate limiting that keep the gateway fast under real production load.
• Contribute to roadmap planning, technical strategy, and cross-functional alignment.

Skills

Backend engineering

Distributed systems

Cloud-native

API design

Go

Rust

AI/ML platforms

Developer tooling

Ownership mindset

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering

Tools

Kubernetes

Docker

OpenTelemetry

OPA (Open Policy Agent)

Job description

Docker, Inc. is seeking an experienced backend engineer to design and build the AI Gateway core systems, including model routing, MCP gateway, and control planes.

You will create scalable, secure infra for dynamic routing, credential storage, and policy enforcement while shaping APIs for OpenAI-style interfaces. You will drive architectural decisions, mentor teammates, and optimize performance to scale with production workloads, all within a remote-first culture that supports global