Senior Systems Engineer - Remote AI Gateway Platform

CrowdStrike Inc.; Atlanta (GA); Remote; USD 125,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Market-leading compensation

Wellness programs

Generous vacation and holidays

Parental leave

Professional development

Employee networks

Vibrant office culture

Job summary

CrowdStrike is seeking an experienced Senior Systems Engineer to own and scale our Kong AI Gateway platform as part of the AI Platform Enablement team. You will help build a resilient infrastructure layer for AI workloads and enterprise services, ensuring secure, scalable connectivity across the organization.

You will partner with product managers and security stakeholders to enable internal platform plumbing, traffic management, and IAM controls, while leveraging AWS Bedrock, Slack, Jira,

Qualifications

• 8+ years of professional engineering experience.
• Experience with enterprise-scale platforms handling high-volume traffic and multi-system integrations.
• Familiarity with API gateways and high-throughput traffic management.
• Proficiency in languages such as Python, JavaScript/TypeScript, or Go.

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 microservices and SaaS ecosystems.
• Onboard internal applications by provisioning gateway routes, credentials, and access policies.
• Collaborate with product and engineering to translate requirements into executable plans within Agile.
• Identify bottlenecks and drive continuous improvement of gateway operations and integrations.
• Design IAM controls including OAuth 2.0, Okta integrations, and non-human identities.
• Manage SSL/TLS lifecycles, mTLS, and automated renewals using cert-manager.
• Enforce security guardrails and DLP at the gateway boundary.

Skills

Enterprise architecture

High-throughput systems

Agile teamwork

Backend/full-stack programming

Security & IAM

CI/CD automation

Observability

OpenTelemetry

Education

Master’s degree in CS/AI or related field

Tools

Kubernetes

GitLab CI/CD

cert-manager

OpenTelemetry

Splunk

Jira

Slack

Okta

OAuth 2.0

mTLS

JWT

Go

Lua

Job description

CrowdStrike is seeking an experienced Senior Systems Engineer to own and scale our Kong AI Gateway platform as part of the AI Platform Enablement team. You will help build a resilient infrastructure layer for AI workloads and enterprise services, ensuring secure, scalable connectivity across the organization.

You will partner with product managers and security stakeholders to enable internal platform plumbing, traffic management, and IAM controls, while leveraging AWS Bedrock, Slack, Jira,