Staff Go Backend Engineer, AI Governance & Security

Huxley; United States; On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Huxley is building a new AI Governance team focused on helping enterprises adopt coding agents securely and responsibly. This Staff-level role spans Go backend services, distributed systems, security, developer tooling, provider integrations, and user-facing product features.

You will work closely with product, design, enterprise customers, and external technology partners while contributing to a growing open-source ecosystem.

Qualifications

• Eight or more years of professional software engineering experience.
• At least one year of recent professional Go development.
• Experience building distributed systems in Go.
• Strong debugging and production troubleshooting skills.
• Excellent written and verbal communication.
• Broad technical ownership and sound architectural judgment.
• A curious, analytical approach to difficult engineering problems.
• Comfort working in a fast-moving, high-ownership environment.

Responsibilities

• Design and deliver features across an enterprise AI-governance platform
• Build distributed backend services in Go
• Integrate with leading LLM providers and developer tools
• Strengthen authentication, auditability, usage tracking, and network-policy controls
• Contribute to TypeScript and React product functionality where appropriate
• Improve open-source products used by enterprise engineering teams
• Collaborate with customers to understand real-world security and governance requirements
• Document architecture, implementation decisions, and operational tradeoffs
• Support systems through production rollout, troubleshooting, and continued improvement
• Move quickly from prototype to reliable enterprise implementation

Skills

Go development

Distributed systems

Debugging

Communication

Architectural judgment

Fast moving environment

Tools

Kubernetes

PostgreSQL

GCP

gRPC

TypeScript

React

Job description

Huxley is building a new AI Governance team focused on helping enterprises adopt coding agents securely and responsibly. This Staff-level role spans Go backend services, distributed systems, security, developer tooling, provider integrations, and user-facing product features.

You will work closely with product, design, enterprise customers, and external technology partners while contributing to a growing open-source ecosystem.