Staff Platform Engineer: Agent-Native Infra & Identity

KeyCard; United States; Remote; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Autonomy

Agent-native culture

Equity with 4‑year vesting

Health, dental, vision for you and 가족

4 weeks vacation + holidays

MacBook Pro + $500 peripherals

Remote-first with Americas focus

Job summary

Keycard is hiring a Staff Platform Engineer to build the core systems and infrastructure powering identity, policy enforcement, and runtime governance. You will design and implement platform services, Kubernetes operators, and CI/CD automation to enable engineers to ship fast and with confidence.

You will partner with founders, product and design, shaping how Keycard uses agents internally and contributes to a scalable, agent-native organization.

Qualifications

• Proficient in Go and/or Rust to build platforms and core systems.
• Strong distributed systems instincts with focus on security, resilience and observability.
• Experience delivering automation, pipelines and developer platforms for reliable software shipping.

Responsibilities

• Build core systems and infrastructure powering Keycard, from identity services to automation.
• Develop Kubernetes operators and CI/CD tooling to improve developer experience and throughput.

Skills

Go

Rust

Kubernetes operators

CI/CD

Developer platforms

Tools

eBPF

Service meshes

WASM

Dynamic policy engines

Job description

Keycard is hiring a Staff Platform Engineer to build the core systems and infrastructure powering identity, policy enforcement, and runtime governance. You will design and implement platform services, Kubernetes operators, and CI/CD automation to enable engineers to ship fast and with confidence.

You will partner with founders, product and design, shaping how Keycard uses agents internally and contributes to a scalable, agent-native organization.