Senior Systems Engineer – AI Gateway Platform (Remote)

CrowdStrike Inc.; City of Albany (NY); Remote; USD 125,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Market-leading compensation

Wellness programmes

Generous vacation and holidays

Parental and adoption leaves

Professional development opportunities

Employee networks and community groups

Vibrant office culture

Great Place to Work Certification

Job summary

CrowdStrike is seeking a Senior Systems Engineer to own and scale the enterprise Kong AI Gateway platform within the AI Platform Enablement team. You will secure, route, and optimize AI connectivity across internal services and external SaaS systems.

You’ll collaborate with product managers, security stakeholders, and engineers to deliver resilient gateway patterns, robust IAM controls, and scalable AI traffic management in a fast-paced, remote-friendly environment.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of professional engineering experience
• Experience with high-volume traffic and multi-system integrations
• Knowledge of API gateway architecture and secure-by-design practices
• Proficiency in Python/JavaScript/Go and modern stacks

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
• Onboard internal applications by provisioning standard gateway routes and access policies
• Collaborate with product teams in Agile to translate requirements into iterations
• Identify process improvements and reduce platform bottlenecks across gateway operations
• Design IAM controls for AI, including OAuth 2.0, Okta integrations, and non-human identities
• Manage SSL/TLS, mTLS, and certificate rotations with cert-manager
• Enforce AI security guardrails, DLP, and prompt filtering at gateway boundary
• Implement traffic shaping, load balancing, failover, and semantic caching
• Build IaaS configurations (YAML, Helm) and GitLab CI/CD pipelines for GitOps
• Instrument gateway with OpenTelemetry and route audit logs to Splunk
• Leverage Kong plugins and develop custom plugins if needed

Skills

8+ years engineering experience

Enterprise systems

Kubernetes

CI/CD pipelines

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related

Master's degree (Preferred)

Tools

Kubernetes

GitLab CI/CD

OpenTelemetry

Splunk

Okta

cert-manager

Job description

CrowdStrike is seeking a Senior Systems Engineer to own and scale the enterprise Kong AI Gateway platform within the AI Platform Enablement team. You will secure, route, and optimize AI connectivity across internal services and external SaaS systems.

You’ll collaborate with product managers, security stakeholders, and engineers to deliver resilient gateway patterns, robust IAM controls, and scalable AI traffic management in a fast-paced, remote-friendly environment.