Platform Engineer, APIs and Security
Build and own the secure multi-tenant platform connecting enterprise customers to inference infrastructure, including public APIs, tenant isolation, metering, entitlements, and enterprise access controls. Requires 5+ years of backend, infrastructure, or platform engineering experience and strong Python and API design skills.
About the job
Responsibilities
- Build the multi-tenant control plane, including credentials, quotas, rate limits, and tenant isolation.
- Own public inference APIs, including streaming, versioning, compatibility, and migrations.
- Implement accurate usage metering, credit reservation, and entitlement enforcement.
- Build enterprise capabilities such as SSO, access controls, audit logs, and data residency.
- Test and continuously strengthen the tenant boundary.
Requirements
- 5+ years of backend, infrastructure, or platform engineering experience, including ownership of a multi-tenant API or control plane.
- Deep knowledge of authentication, credential management, rate limiting, quotas, and tenant isolation.
- Strong Python skills and sound API design judgment, ideally with high-throughput or streaming APIs.
- Experience with metering, billing, credits, or entitlements, including idempotency, reconciliation, and audit trails.
- Experience with enterprise or regulated environments, such as SSO, SAML/OIDC, SOC 2, data residency, or sovereign deployments.
- Adaptability, collaboration, and willingness to pursue bold ideas.
Benefits
- Flexible work with in-person collaboration in the Bay Area, a distributed global-first team, and team offsites.
- Annual travel stipend to explore a country never visited.
- Weekly meal allowance for take-out or grocery delivery.
- Comprehensive medical benefits and generous paid time off.
Skills
Python, API Design, Authentication, Credential Management, Rate Limiting, Quotas, Tenant Isolation, Streaming Apis, Usage Metering, Billing, Entitlements, SSO, SAML, OIDC, Audit Logs
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