Senior AI Gateway Platform Engineer - Remote

AItoolnavio; United States; Remote; USD 125,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health Insurance

401(k) retirement plan

Paid time off

Parental leave

Wellness programs

Professional development

Flexible remote work (US)

Remote-friendly culture

Job summary

AItoolnavio is seeking a Sr. Systems Engineer to own and scale an enterprise AI Gateway platform from a fully remote US basis. You will secure identity, manage traffic, and automate operations across MCP, LLM interfaces, internal microservices, and external SaaS apps.

You will collaborate with product, security, and engineering teams to deliver resilient gateway solutions, implement AI security guardrails, and drive observability with OpenTelemetry and Splunk.

Qualifications

• At least 8 years of professional engineering experience across full-stack and enterprise architecture.
• Strong understanding of API gateway architectures and secure-by-design operating models.
• Experience deploying containerized apps in Kubernetes.
• Experience with CI/CD automation (GitLab CI/CD) and declarative infrastructure (YAML/Helm).
• Experience with AI systems interfaces (Claude, ChatGPT, etc.).

Responsibilities

• Deploy, configure, operate, and maintain the enterprise Kong AI Gateway platform with high availability and low latency.
• Configure secure routing for MCP servers, tools, and agents across internal services and external SaaS.
• Simplify onboarding by provisioning gateway routes, credentials, and access policies.
• Translate requirements into iterative delivery plans within an Agile framework.
• Design and implement IAM controls (OAuth 2.0, Okta, mTLS) for AI workloads.
• Develop platform observability using OpenTelemetry and route audit logs to Splunk.

Skills

API gateway design

High-throughput traffic

Agile/Scrum

AI systems experience

Go/Python/Node

OpenTelemetry

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS or related field

Master's degree in CS/AI (bonus)

Tools

Kubernetes

GitLab CI/CD

OAuth/OpenID Connect

TLS/mTLS certs (cert-manager)

Job description

AItoolnavio is seeking a Sr. Systems Engineer to own and scale an enterprise AI Gateway platform from a fully remote US basis. You will secure identity, manage traffic, and automate operations across MCP, LLM interfaces, internal microservices, and external SaaS apps.

You will collaborate with product, security, and engineering teams to deliver resilient gateway solutions, implement AI security guardrails, and drive observability with OpenTelemetry and Splunk.