Senior AI Gateway Systems Engineer

CrowdStrike Inc.; United States; Remote; USD 140,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

CrowdStrike Inc. is seeking an experienced Systems Engineer to own, scale, and secure the enterprise Kong AI Gateway platform as a core pillar of the AI Platform Enablement team.

You will drive the technical execution of a governed AI connectivity platform, enabling broad internal adoption and resilient infrastructure across AI workloads. You will collaborate with product managers, Enterprise AI teams, application engineers, and security stakeholders to implement secure, scalable gateway

Qualifications

• 8+ years of professional engineering experience.
• Experience with enterprise-scale platforms handling high-volume traffic.
• Understanding API gateway architecture and secure-by-design models.
• Proficiency in backend or full-stack languages (Python, JavaScript/TypeScript, Go).

Responsibilities

• Deploy, configure, 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 microservices and external SaaS ecosystems.
• Streamline onboarding for internal applications by provisioning gateway routes, credentials, and access policies.
• Collaborate with engineering and product teams to break down requirements into iterative plans within Agile.
• Identify process optimizations and drive continuous improvements in gateway operations.
• Design and implement IAM controls for AI, including OAuth 2.0 and Okta integrations.
• Manage SSL/TLS lifecycles, mTLS configurations, and certificate rotation using cert-manager.
• Enforce AI security guardrails, DLP, prompt injection protection, and data redaction at the gateway boundary.
• Implement traffic shaping, load balancing, circuit breakers, and provider failover for resilience.
• Build IaaS configurations (YAML, Helm) and GitLab CI/CD pipelines for GitOps deployments.
• Instrument with OpenTelemetry and route audit logs to Splunk for metrics and compliance.
• Leverage Kong plugins or custom plugins in Go or Lua for routing/governance needs.

Skills

Full-stack dev

Enterprise architecture

API gateway

High-throughput

Go

Python/JS

AI systems

Tools

Kong

GitLab CI/CD

Job description

CrowdStrike Inc. is seeking an experienced Systems Engineer to own, scale, and secure the enterprise Kong AI Gateway platform as a core pillar of the AI Platform Enablement team.

You will drive the technical execution of a governed AI connectivity platform, enabling broad internal adoption and resilient infrastructure across AI workloads. You will collaborate with product managers, Enterprise AI teams, application engineers, and security stakeholders to implement secure, scalable gateway