Senior Systems Engineer, AI Gateway & Security (Remote)

CrowdStrike Inc.; Trenton (NJ); Remote; USD 125,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Market-leading compensation

Equity awards

Wellness programmes

Vacation and holidays

Parental leave

Professional development

Employee networks

Great Place to Work

Job summary

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

You will enable internal platform plumbing, traffic management, and infrastructure for AI workloads across MCP servers, agents, and cloud services. You’ll partner with product managers, Enterprise AI teams, security, and application engineers to deliver resilient gateway patterns, strong identity controls, and scalable AI

Qualifications

• 8+ years of professional engineering experience in enterprise-scale platforms.
• Experience with API gateway, high-throughput traffic, and multi-system integrations.
• Strong knowledge of IAM and security in enterprise environments.
• Experience with Agile software delivery and cross-functional collaboration.

Responsibilities

• Deploy, configure, and maintain the enterprise Kong AI Gateway platform for high availability and low latency.
• Configure secure routing for MCP servers, tools, and agents across internal microservices and external SaaS ecosystems.
• Onboard internal applications by provisioning gateway routes, credentials and access policies.
• Collaborate with product and engineering teams to translate requirements into iterative plans.
• Identify bottlenecks and drive continuous operational improvements across gateway operations.

Skills

Enterprise platform experience

API gateway architecture

Agile delivery

Security & IAM

Cross-functional collaboration

Tools

Kubernetes

GitLab CI/CD

OpenTelemetry

Splunk

Okta

cert-manager

Go/Lua plugins

Job description

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

You will enable internal platform plumbing, traffic management, and infrastructure for AI workloads across MCP servers, agents, and cloud services. You’ll partner with product managers, Enterprise AI teams, security, and application engineers to deliver resilient gateway patterns, strong identity controls, and scalable AI