Founding Engineer – Agent Control Plane
Guild.ai
full-time
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Location Type: Hybrid
Location: San Francisco • California • United States
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About the role
- 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
- 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
- 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