Senior AI Gateway Platform Engineer | Remote

Royper Royco LLC; United States; Remote; USD 125,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Bonus eligibility and equity grants

Paid time off

Parental/adoption leave

Wellness programs

Professional development

Job summary

Royper Royco LLC is seeking a Sr. Systems Engineer to own, scale, and secure an enterprise AI Gateway platform that connects AI workloads with critical services. You will build and maintain the infrastructure linking AI agents, MCP servers, internal microservices, cloud models, and SaaS apps.

You will implement IAM controls, TLS, and security protections while driving automation, observability, and platform resilience in a fully remote role across the United States.

Qualifications

• Eight+ years of professional engineering experience in enterprise-scale platforms.
• Strong API gateway, high-throughput traffic, and secure-by-design operations.
• Experience with AI systems or interfaces (Claude, ChatGPT) is a plus.
• Hands-on Kubernetes deployment and container orchestration.
• CI/CD automation and declarative infrastructure (YAML, Helm).
• IAM design with OAuth 2.0, OIDC, JWT, and mTLS; Okta familiarity.
• Observability using OpenTelemetry; Splunk experience is a plus.
• Agile team collaboration with security, risk, and product stakeholders.
• Proficient in Go or Lua for gateway extensions; TypeScript/Python for MCP tooling.

Responsibilities

• Deploy, operate, and scale the enterprise Kong AI Gateway platform.
• Configure secure routing for MCP servers and internal/external services.
• Provision gateway routes, credentials, and access policies for LLM/MCP.
• Translate requirements into iterative delivery plans in Agile method.
• Improve gateway performance, reliability, and observability.
• Design IAM controls, including OAuth 2.0, OIDC, and mTLS.
• Manage certificate lifecycles and automated renewals (cert-manager).
• Implement AI security guardrails and DLP at the gateway boundary.
• Develop traffic management with shaping, load balancing, and caching.
• Create YAML/Helm configurations and GitLab CI/CD pipelines (GitOps).
• Instrument platform with OpenTelemetry and route audit logs to Splunk.
• Track platform success metrics: usage, latency, reliability, security.
• Develop and extend plugins in Go or Lua for gateway needs.

Skills

APIs & microservices

Kubernetes

CI/CD automation

OpenTelemetry

Security & IAM

Agile practices

Collaboration

Education

Master's degree in Computer Science or AI

Tools

Go

Lua

TypeScript

Python

cert-manager

GitLab CI/CD

Job description

Royper Royco LLC is seeking a Sr. Systems Engineer to own, scale, and secure an enterprise AI Gateway platform that connects AI workloads with critical services. You will build and maintain the infrastructure linking AI agents, MCP servers, internal microservices, cloud models, and SaaS apps.

You will implement IAM controls, TLS, and security protections while driving automation, observability, and platform resilience in a fully remote role across the United States.