Senior Backend Engineer, AI Gateway (Remote + Equity)

Docker; United States; À distance; USD 161 000 - 261 000; Plein temps

Avantages offerts par ce poste

Remote-first by design

Flexibility that fits your life

Time to recharge

Home office support

Technology stipend – US$100 net per月

Learning & development

Parental leave – 16 weeks

Equity for all full-time employees

Comprehensive benefits

Docker swag

Résumé du poste

Docker is seeking an experienced backend engineer to help build the AI Gateway backbone, including model routing, MCP gateway, and control plane, in a remote-first environment. You will design scalable, secure, high-throughput services and own critical capabilities across the platform, collaborating with product teams to advance the agent-based infrastructure.

Ideal candidates bring 6+ years of backend experience, strong Go/Rust skills, and a passion for developer-facing tools.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of backend engineering experience with production-grade systems.
• Deep knowledge of distributed and scalable systems, cloud-native infrastructure, and API design.
• Experience building secure, high-throughput services (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.

Responsabilités

• Design and implement core systems powering the AI Gateway, including the model router, MCP gateway, and control plane.
• Build infrastructure for dynamic model selection/routing, auto-failover, cost-based routing, and policy enforcement.
• Own 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.

Connaissances

Backend engineering

Distributed systems

Go

Rust

API design

AI/ML platforms

Ownership

Formation

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field

Outils

Kubernetes

Docker

OpenTelemetry

OPA

Description du poste

Docker is seeking an experienced backend engineer to help build the AI Gateway backbone, including model routing, MCP gateway, and control plane, in a remote-first environment. You will design scalable, secure, high-throughput services and own critical capabilities across the platform, collaborating with product teams to advance the agent-based infrastructure.

Ideal candidates bring 6+ years of backend experience, strong Go/Rust skills, and a passion for developer-facing tools.