Senior Backend Engineer, AI Gateway (Remote-First)

Docker, Inc; Seattle (WA); À distance; USD 161 000 - 261 000; Plein temps

Avantages offerts par ce poste

Remote-first

Flexible schedule

Generous PTO

Home office stipend

Tech stipend

Learning stipend

Parental leave

Equity

Comprehensive benefits

Docker swag

Résumé du poste

Docker, Inc is seeking a senior backend engineer to design and build core systems powering the AI Gateway. You will shape the model router, MCP gateway, and control plane, and implement infrastructure for dynamic routing, auto-failover, and policy enforcement.

You will own secure credential storage, session summarization, and high-throughput services, while collaborating on APIs for OpenAI-compatible interfaces and the Model Context Protocol.

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.

Responsabilités

• 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.

Connaissances

Backend engineering

Distributed systems

Cloud-native infra

API design

Go or Rust

Ownership mindset

Formation

Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering or equivalent

Outils

Kubernetes

Docker

Microservices architecture

Description du poste

Docker, Inc is seeking a senior backend engineer to design and build core systems powering the AI Gateway. You will shape the model router, MCP gateway, and control plane, and implement infrastructure for dynamic routing, auto-failover, and policy enforcement.

You will own secure credential storage, session summarization, and high-throughput services, while collaborating on APIs for OpenAI-compatible interfaces and the Model Context Protocol.