IT Engineer, Internal AI Infrastructure

Figma · San Francisco, CA • New York, NY • United States · Business Operations · listed August 27, 2026

The shape of it

Seniority
Senior
Experience asked
5+ years
Where
Not stated
Stated pay
$153,000 – $296,000 USD
Requirements listed
5
Length
1,147 words

In the posting’s own words

We're a small, high-leverage team organized around three pillars: Platform & Tooling, Infrastructure & Hosting, and Applied AI Builds. This role anchors the Infrastructure & Hosting pillar. This is the runtime layer everything else depends on.

What it asks for · 5

  • 5+ years of software engineering experience, with significant time in infrastructure, platform, or backend engineering
  • A track record of building internal platforms or paved paths that other engineers and teams adopted, not just maintained, with excellent communication skills collaborating across security, IT, and business teams
  • Strong system design skills and experience architecting resilient, observable production systems
  • Hands-on experience with LLM operations: model gateways or routing, agent runtimes, evals, or cost/usage instrumentation
  • Experience with identity and access management in an enterprise environment (e.g., Okta, SSO, secure service-to-service auth)

Also a plus

  • Experience building internal AI platforms or workspaces (the Ramp Glass / JPMorgan LLM Suite category) or developer platforms at a comparable scale
  • Familiarity with MCP, agent orchestration frameworks, or skill/plugin registry patterns
  • Experience working within audit and compliance programs (SOX/ITGC) or building systems with audit requirements
  • A history of being the first infrastructure hire on a small team, comfortable setting standards from scratch across a broad scope of responsibilities

What the job covers

  • Design and build the hosting golden path for internal AI applications, bots, and agents, including runtime patterns for long-running workflows, scheduled jobs, and agent execution
  • Build the model routing layer that directs tasks across frontier and lower-cost models based on cost, capability, and policy with a full audit trail
  • Stand up observability, usage analytics, audit logging, and per-team cost attribution for AI workloads across the company
  • Integrate identity, access, and security patterns (Okta-connected by default) so every internal AI app is safe on day one, including the sanctioned path for workflows touching customer, financial, or people data
  • Partner with engineers on our product AI infrastructure teams to share gateways and telemetry rather than building parallel systems
  • Help shape the team's platform strategy, roadmap, and engineering best practices as a founding member of the infrastructure pillar

Tools and skills named

Security & compliance
  • Audit5×
  • Security4×
  • IAM
Product & design
  • Figma8×
  • Roadmap
Models & research
  • LLM2×
  • Evaluations
Cloud & infra
  • Observability
Frameworks
  • Rails
Operations & finance
  • Recruiting

Words the posting leans on

  • infrastructure8×
  • platform8×
  • experience7×
  • design6×
  • internal6×
  • agent5×
  • audit5×
  • build5×
  • building5×
  • model5×
  • engineering4×
  • hosting4×
  • layer4×
  • path4×
  • patterns4×
  • security4×

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