Senior Engineer, Agentic Engineering Governance, Open Source
College Board6 days ago
Remote, United StatesSenior
Base Salary
$153k - $166k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design and implement guardrails, permission models, and policy-as-code controls governing AI coding agents’ access to source code, infrastructure, and production systems.
- Build and maintain sandboxing, audit logging, rollback, infrastructure lifecycle automation, and internal tooling solutions.
- Establish organization-wide standards, acceptable-use policies, governance frameworks, playbooks, and documentation for AI-assisted and open-source software development.
- Develop the program for open-source license compliance, dependency risk management, and review of externally published code.
- Evaluate emerging agentic programming tools, frameworks, protocols, and LLM development technologies and recommend adoption approaches.
- Partner with Security, Legal/Compliance, Architecture, Infrastructure, Network, Observability, Operations, and software engineering stakeholders to assess risks and approve AI coding use cases.
- Participate in architecture reviews, peer reviews, agile ceremonies, production issue resolution, and the daytime on-call rotation.
- Contribute to cloud engineering strategy and implement cloud infrastructure, serverless applications, and developer tooling using infrastructure as code.
- Mentor technical staff and developers, lead technical efforts, and deliver training materials and office hours on safe and compliant agentic coding practices.
- Serve as an escalation point for AI coding tool policy and governance questions.
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience with Infrastructure as Code, CI/CD frameworks, immutable infrastructure, automation, orchestration, and modern DevOps patterns.
- Significant hands-on experience with AI coding agents or assistants such as Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, Cursor, or Windsurf, or other LLM-based developer tooling.
- Experience with LLM platforms and APIs such as Anthropic Claude or OpenAI, including agent orchestration, function calling, and MCP concepts.
- Understanding of AI and LLM security considerations including prompt injection, data exfiltration, permission scoping, and sandboxing.
- Experience establishing technical standards, guardrails, or review processes across an engineering organization, responsible AI governance, or an adjacent discipline such as security.
- Technical knowledge of cloud computing, DevOps, microservices, and distributed cloud infrastructure; AWS experience is preferred.
- Experience with AWS services such as Lambda, SNS, SQS, S3, Step Functions, EC2, ECS, VPC, IAM, CloudWatch, and DynamoDB is a plus.
- Experience building event-driven, cloud-based serverless applications.
- Strong programming background in Python, JavaScript, React.js/Node.js, Java, or comparable languages, with the ability to learn new languages quickly.
- Strong communication, collaboration, documentation, mentoring, research, prioritization, and stakeholder-presentation skills, including communication with nontechnical stakeholders.
- Experience supporting developers as internal customers, gathering requirements and feedback, and driving adoption of engineering standards.
- Authorization to work in the United States for any employer.
- Ability to work collaboratively, learn independently, experiment with emerging technologies, and operate in a high-pressure environment.
Benefits
- Remote role, with employees near College Board offices able to choose fully remote or hybrid work with Tuesdays and Wednesdays in the office.
- Occasional travel is required for in-person business purposes.
- Full-time position.
- Comprehensive benefits package and a supportive, mission-driven nonprofit work environment.
- Compensation is location-adjusted and based on qualifications, experience, impact, and market data.
About College Board
College Board is a nonprofit education organization that builds and administers programs such as the SAT, PSAT/NMSQT, Advanced Placement, CLEP, and BigFuture planning tools for students, schools, and colleges. It generates revenue primarily through exam and program fees and services to educational institutions. Founded in 1900 and headquartered in New York, it works with U.S. secondary schools and higher-ed admissions to deliver assessments and course frameworks.