Software Engineer, Connectors & MCP
Build secure, scalable backend platforms and AI integrations connecting enterprise systems, tools, and data sources. The role requires 5+ years of backend engineering experience, distributed-systems expertise, cloud-native operations, authentication security, and technical leadership.
About the job
Responsibilities
- Design and deliver secure, scalable AI integration platforms connecting enterprise systems and powering mission-critical automation.
- Evolve the AI integration client ecosystem, enabling secure connections to external tools, data sources, and enterprise systems.
- Own backend service design for high-throughput, low-latency APIs supporting agent workflows and cross-system orchestration.
- Define identity, authentication, and trust-boundary strategies for integrations, including OAuth and service-to-service authentication.
- Partner with product and engineering leaders on roadmap, technical strategy, and platform capabilities.
- Drive reliability through SLOs/SLAs, observability, resilience, incident readiness, and performance optimization.
- Raise engineering standards through architecture reviews, design practices, testing strategy, and mentorship.
Requirements
- 5+ years of software engineering experience building and operating production backend systems.
- Experience with TypeScript, Deno, Node.js, or Bun.
- Experience designing and shipping API-driven platform services and distributed systems, including microservices, event-driven architectures, and secure service-to-service communication.
- Experience building AI integration layers, such as MCP clients and servers, tool orchestration, external API connectors, and authentication mediation.
- Deep knowledge of OAuth2/OIDC, API keys, token lifecycle management, secret management, and least-privilege access.
- Cloud-native experience with AWS, Google Cloud, or Azure, including Docker, Kubernetes, CI/CD, and production operations.
- Experience with observability and reliability engineering, including metrics, SLOs/SLAs, alerting, incident response, and performance tuning.
- Strong backend fundamentals with modern server frameworks and data systems such as TypeScript/Node.js, Python, and PostgreSQL.
- Ability to lead through ambiguity, make technical decisions, mentor engineers, and own delivery through production.
Nice to Have
- Python experience.
- Architectural impact and leadership appropriate for Senior to Staff-level scope.
Compensation and Benefits
- Annual compensation range of $155,400–$304,100.
- Competitive compensation, company stock options, and 401(k).
- Generous paid time off and company holidays.
- Medical, dental, and vision coverage.
- Paid parental leave, fertility and family planning support.
- Flexible spending and health savings accounts.
- Wellness and learning and development stipends.
- Company-wide and team off-sites.
Skills
TypeScript, Deno, Node.js, Bun, Mcp, Microservices, Distributed Systems, Oauth2, OIDC, Docker, Kubernetes, CI/CD, AWS, GCP, Postgres
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