Senior Systems Engineer - AI Gateway (Remote)

CrowdStrike Inc.; Madison (WI); Remote; USD 125,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Market-leading compensation and equity

Wellness programs

Generous vacation and holidays

Parental and adoption leave

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 as a core pillar of the AI Platform Enablement team. You will secure and optimize AI connectivity, IAM, and gateway operations across internal workloads and external SaaS integrations.

You will collaborate with product managers, security, and engineering to deliver scalable patterns, robust identity controls, and resilient infrastructure, ensuring high availability and compliant security

Qualifications

• As a Senior Systems Engineer, you will own and scale an enterprise Kong AI Gateway platform with 8+ years of experience.
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Responsibilities

• Deploy, configure, and maintain the enterprise Kong AI Gateway platform with high availability and low latency.
• 1. Configure secure routing for MCP servers, tools, and agents across internal microservices and external SaaS.
• 2. Streamline onboarding by provisioning gateway routes, credentials, and access policies for upstream services.
• 3. Collaborate with product managers and security stakeholders to deliver robust gateway patterns and IAM controls.
• 4. Proactively identify bottlenecks and drive continuous operational improvements across gateway operations.
• 5. Design IAM controls for AI including OAuth 2.0, Okta integrations and non-human identities.
• 6. Manage SSL/TLS, mTLS, and certificate lifecycles using cert-manager.
• 7. Enforce security guardrails, DLP, prompt injection protection, and redaction.
• 8. Implement traffic shaping, load balancing, failover, and semantic caching.
• 9. Build declarative IaaS configurations (YAML, Helm) and GitLab CI/CD pipelines.
• 10. Instrument with OpenTelemetry and route audit logs to Splunk for metrics.
• 11. Leverage Kong plugins and custom plugins (Go/Lua) for advanced routing.

Skills

API gateway architecture

IAM & security

CI/CD automation

Kubernetes

Programming (Python/JS/Go)

AI systems familiarity

Agile teamwork

Education

Master’s degree in Computer Science

Tools

Kubernetes

GitLab CI/CD

cert-manager

OpenTelemetry

Splunk

Jira

Slack

Okta

YAML/Helm

Job description

CrowdStrike is seeking a Senior Systems Engineer to own and scale the enterprise Kong AI Gateway platform as a core pillar of the AI Platform Enablement team. You will secure and optimize AI connectivity, IAM, and gateway operations across internal workloads and external SaaS integrations.

You will collaborate with product managers, security, and engineering to deliver scalable patterns, robust identity controls, and resilient infrastructure, ensuring high availability and compliant security