Founding Engineer – Agent Control Plane

Guild.ai

Founding Engineer building the infrastructure for AI agents at Guild.ai. Designing secure, scalable systems for managing AI agents in production environments.

Posted 4/12/2026full-timeSan Francisco • California • 🇺🇸 United StatesMid-LevelSeniorWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AWSAzureCloudGoogle Cloud PlatformKubernetesPythonTypeScript

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

You will build core infrastructure that enables:
Systems for running and managing autonomous agents
Multi-agent coordination and lifecycle management
Observability, tracing, evaluation, and reliability tooling
State management and memory systems
Secure execution of agent tools (e.g., GitHub, Slack, internal APIs)
Tool abstraction layers and permission boundaries
Sandboxed and policy-controlled tool invocation
Extensible plugin systems
Fine-grained, role-based access control (RBAC) and policy systems
Enterprise-grade auth (OAuth, SAML, SCIM, API keys)
Multi-tenant architecture
Secure identity propagation between users, agents, and tools
Agent permission scoping and guardrails
Data isolation and tenant separation
Audit logging and traceability
SOC2-minded system design
Secure execution environments
Deploying and operating systems on GCP, AWS, and Azure
Kubernetes-native systems (GKE today)
Infrastructure as Code
Scalable, resilient backend services
Deep integration with foundation models from OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google
Model routing and abstraction layers
Cost control and performance optimization
Structured tool calling and agent frameworks

Requirements

What you’ll need

Experience building distributed backend systems
Deep understanding of authentication & authorization systems
Experience with Kubernetes and cloud-native infrastructure
Experience integrating with LLM APIs or building agentic systems
Strong Python and/or TypeScript proficiency
Comfort designing multi-tenant SaaS systems
Bonus Experience building developer platforms
Experience with security-critical systems
Experience in compliance-aware environments (SOC2, ISO, etc.)
Experience with GitHub/Slack/Enterprise API integrations
Background in infrastructure tooling or control planes

Benefits

Comp & perks

What You’ll Own
Agent Runtime & Orchestration
Tooling & Integrations
Authentication & Authorization
Security & Compliance
Cloud Infrastructure
Foundation Model Integration

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Hard Skills & Tools

PythonTypeScriptKubernetesInfrastructure as CodeDistributed backend systemsAuthentication systemsAuthorization systemsMulti-tenant architectureLLM APIsSecurity-critical systems