Platform Engineer – APIs and Security

About the Role

Join us as a Platform Engineer where you will develop a robust multi-tenant platform transforming our inference infrastructure into a reliable product trusted by enterprises and sovereign clients. You will be responsible for the critical systems interfacing between customers and our inference stack, including authentication, tenant segregation, quotas, metering, entitlements, and the public API. Security and auditability are fundamental product features embedded from the start.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain the multi-tenant control system encompassing credentials management, quota allocation, rate limiting, and tenant isolation.
• Manage and enhance public inference APIs covering streaming capabilities, version control, compatibility assurance, and migration processes.
• Implement precise usage tracking, credit reservations, and enforce entitlement rules effectively.
• Create enterprise-grade functionalities such as Single Sign-On (SSO), access management, audit logging, and compliance with data residency requirements.
• Conduct rigorous testing and continuously reinforce tenant boundary security.

Qualifications and Experience

• Minimum of five years’ experience in backend, infrastructure, or platform engineering roles, with demonstrated ownership of multi-tenant API or control plane systems.
• Extensive expertise in authentication processes, credential handling, rate limiting schemes, quota systems, and tenant isolation mechanisms.
• Proficiency in Python programming and solid judgement in API design, particularly with high-throughput or streaming APIs.
• Hands-on experience with metering, billing procedures, credit systems, entitlements, incorporating idempotency, reconciliation, and maintaining audit trails.
• Familiarity with enterprise or highly regulated settings, including SSO, SAML/OIDC protocols, SOC 2 compliance, data residency, or sovereign cloud deployments.

About the Company

We are committed to advancing AI systems that are not static but continuously adapt in real-time to their environment. Our mission is to create intelligent systems that are customizable, accessible, and efficient, making innovation available to a broad audience. We emphasize bringing together highly talented and motivated professionals to drive the next phase of evolving intelligence.

Employee Benefits

• Flexible work arrangements that include in-person collaboration in the Bay Area, opportunities to work in a globally distributed team, and participation in team offsites.
• Adaption Passport program: an annual travel allowance to encourage exploration of new countries, supporting lifelong learning and perspective expansion.
• Weekly lunch stipend to support meals through take-out or grocery delivery.
• Comprehensive healthcare benefits and generous paid time off to support wellbeing.