1 day ago
Base Salary
$119k - $206k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and operate cloud-scale distributed security services with high availability, scalability, and resilience.
- Architect low-latency, high-reliability backend systems and APIs that handle failures across regions, services, and dependencies.
- Use Claude Code, Cursor, and agentic coding workflows for design, implementation, refactoring, testing, code review, and incident investigation.
- Develop guardrails for safe AI-assisted development, including automated verification, scoped permissions, sandbox execution, review patterns, and agent behavior boundaries.
- Design and operate MCP servers and integrations connecting AI agents to telemetry, runbooks, policy stores, deployment tooling, and ticketing systems.
- Improve observability, automate engineering toil, contribute to postmortems and design reviews, and mentor others on responsible AI-assisted engineering.
Requirements
- 7+ years of software engineering experience with a focus on distributed systems.
- Bachelor’s or master’s degree, or equivalent experience, in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
- Strong programming skills in Java and/or Go.
- Knowledge of replication, consistency models, leader election, consensus, and fault tolerance.
- Production experience with agentic coding tools such as Claude Code and Cursor, including CLI and headless workflows.
- Ability to define verification, testing, review, and permission guardrails for AI-generated production and security-sensitive code.
- Experience with microservices, event-driven or component-based architectures, SQL and NoSQL datastores, and distributed messaging systems.
- Experience building security or infrastructure platforms such as IAM, policy engines, secrets management, or encryption services.
- Familiarity with MCP, Kubernetes, service meshes, Zero Trust, cloud-native security patterns, or compliance-focused systems is preferred.
Benefits
- Base salary range of $118,800–$205,600, excluding potential bonus and restricted stock units.
- Benefits may include medical, financial, and other benefits, 401(k) eligibility, PTO, and parental leave.
- The role is based in Austin, Texas; remote roles are not eligible for U.S. visa sponsorship.
About TCGplayer
TCGplayer operates an online marketplace and software tools for buying and selling trading card games and related collectibles, serving hobby shops and individual sellers. It generates revenue through marketplace fees, seller subscriptions, and fulfillment programs such as TCGplayer Direct. An eBay subsidiary, the company provides authentication and logistics services that help stores list inventory at scale and reach buyers across the U.S. and internationally.