Staff AI Platform Engineer

The role

You will lead the business-side AI platform work at Sysdig: configuring Bedrock runtime and gateway access, building and securing MCP servers, and setting the technical direction for the agent-hosting platform that other teams build on. You will also define health and safety standards for agents and MCP servers.

What you will do

• Drive Bedrock runtime and gateway configuration: model access, cost attribution, content-filtering guardrails, model pinning and quota management.
• Build, ship, secure and patch self-hosted and managed MCP servers for business apps and databases, and own the MCP registry.
• Partner with IT to move MCPs into stable, IT-managed assets.
• Author the MDM config payload and the Okta-group-to-IAM mapping that IT pushes and enforces, and specify desktop client setup and auth flows for non-technical employees.
• Build AI and agent-triggered automations such as approvals, spend alerts and agent-initiated workflows.
• Own the technical direction, design docs and standards for the agent-hosting substrate.
• Define what healthy and safe to ship mean for agents and MCP servers, including cost, usage and reliability telemetry and a tiered-autonomy model.
• Build governance that routes workflows by data sensitivity, enforces least privilege and auditability, and sandboxes unproven models away from production data.
• Align IT, Security and DevX on platform direction through a written standard.

Required qualifications

• 6+ years in software engineering, platform engineering or DevOps, including ownership of something in production that others depended on.
• Hands-on AWS: IAM, ECS or Lambda, CloudWatch and working VPC knowledge.
• Full-stack range: backend services, APIs, CI/CD and containerized deployments.
• Able to write an MCP server or API integration from scratch.
• Hands-on with LLMs: comfortable with LLM APIs, prompt engineering and agent development, and has shipped something with them.
• Self-direction: can take an underspecified task and work out the ambiguous parts.

Benefits

• Extra days off
• 401(k) Retirement Savings Plan with a 3% company match
• Maternity and Parental Leave
• Mental health support for you and your family through the Modern Health app
• Full health benefits package for you and your family

Before you apply

• The posting does not say whether visa sponsorship is offered.

About the company

Sysdig creates Falco, an open standard for cloud threat detection, and provides runtime cloud security. The posting says its technology is trusted by over 60% of the Fortune 500.