Staff Engineer, Applied AI
Match Group7 hours ago
Base Salary
$225k - $265k/yr
Responsibilities
- Own the design and roadmap of the agent platform, including gateways, connectors, identity, policy, guardrails, observability, and cost management.
- Design agent identity, delegation, scoped credentials, access control, human approvals, and traceability to responsible users.
- Build tool-boundary guardrails against prompt injection, confused-deputy access, data exfiltration, and over-broad scopes.
- Implement tracing, audit trails, regression evaluations, and per-team cost attribution for agent behavior.
- Define onboarding, review, versioning, sandboxing, and safe defaults for connectors and third-party MCP servers.
- Operate the platform in production, including latency budgets, failure modes, rate limits, quotas, kill switches, on-call, and incident response.
- Partner with Security, forward deployed engineers, and platform teams, and mentor engineers contributing to the platform.
Requirements
- 8+ years building backend, infrastructure, or platform systems that other teams depend on, with recent hands-on work on LLM agents, tool use, or MCP.
- Experience shipping identity or authorization systems involving OAuth 2.0, OIDC, token exchange or delegation, service identity, and RBAC, ABAC, or relationship-based policy models.
- Experience operating gateways, proxies, or other services in the critical request path, including on-call, observability, and incident response.
- Strong Python or TypeScript skills and daily use of AI coding tools with an understanding of their limitations.
- Ability to work with security teams and internal customers to develop safe solutions.
- Preferred experience with policy engines, workload identity, production LLM gateways, model routers, MCP servers, OpenTelemetry, tracing for non-deterministic systems, agent identity or MCP authorization standards, application protection, identity and access management, or threat detection and incident response.
Benefits
- Flexible vacation and 10 sick days.
- Volunteer time off and charitable donations matched up to $15,000 annually.
- Comprehensive health, vision, and dental coverage.
- 100% 401(k) employer match up to 10% and an employee stock purchase plan.
- 100% paid parental leave, including for non-birthing parents, and family-forming benefits.
- Mentorship through MentorMatch, access to 6,000+ Udemy courses, and a $3,000 annual professional development stipend.
- Mental health support through Modern Health, paid concierge medical membership, pet insurance, fitness membership subsidy, and commuter subsidy.
- Free Tinder Gold subscription.
- Full-time employee position.
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About Match Group
Match Group builds and operates a global portfolio of online dating apps, including Tinder, Hinge, Match, OkCupid, Plenty of Fish, Meetic, The League, and HER. It monetizes through freemium subscriptions, à la carte in‑app features, and advertising; the public company trades on NASDAQ and is headquartered in Los Angeles, serving users across many markets and languages.