# Platform Engineer, APIs and Security

**Company:** [Adaption Labs](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/adaption-labs)
**Location:** San Francisco, CA
**Role:** Backend Engineering
**Experience:** 5+ years
**Skills:** Python, API Design, Authentication, Credential Management, Rate Limiting, Quotas, Tenant Isolation, Streaming Apis, Usage Metering, Billing, Entitlements, SSO, SAML, OIDC, Audit Logs
**Posted:** 2026-08-21

> 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.

## Job Description

## 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.

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