Full-stack Software Engineer III/Senior, AI Gateway
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ngrokAI infrastructure
This is a remote position for candidates outside of the Bay Area and a hybrid role for candidates within commuting distance to San Francisco.Full-TimeSenior
SalarySenior Software Engineer — Tier 1 (SF, LA, Seattle, NYC): $202,500 – $247,500; Tier 2 (rest of US): $186,300 – $227,700. Software Engineer III — Tier 1 (SF, LA, Seattle, NYC): $180,000 – $220,000; Tier 2 (rest of US): $165,600 – $202,400. We provide an attractive mix of salary and equity.
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Job Details
- Required Skills
- HTMLCSSJavaTypeScriptC++GoReactRust
Requirements
- Be comfortable with a statically typed, compiled language such as Go, Rust, C++, or Java; Go is a bonus.
- Have frontend engineering experience, including TypeScript, React, HTML, and CSS.
- Have experience working with AI/LLMs and their edge cases.
- Care about developer experience and thoughtful abstractions.
- Be interested in defining system behavior, not just plumbing.
- Consider retries, limits, and costs when designing systems.
- Extra credit for experience with AI platforms or inference infrastructure.
- Extra credit for experience with API gateways that have product-level opinions.
- Extra credit for experience with usage limits, quotas, or billing-adjacent systems.
- Extra credit for experience with customer-facing observability tools.
Responsibilities
- Build and evolve AI-aware gateway components that classify and handle AI traffic in real time.
- Design and implement AI Gateway Traffic Policy Objects, including rate limits, usage caps, and access rules.
- Build and maintain systems that measure AI requests, tokens, and related metadata.
- Expose signals showing what AI traffic was allowed or blocked, which policies applied, and how usage accumulated.
- Work with product and design to build AI-specific gateway primitives that hide provider and infrastructure complexity.
- Collaborate with Gateway, Customer Data, and Platform teams to align usage data, policy enforcement, and billing signals.
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