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# IT Engineer, Internal AI Infrastructure

- **Company:** Figma, Inc.
- **Location:** United States (Remote available)
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $153,000.0 - $296,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Artificial Intelligence, Audit Trail, Identity and Access Management, Routing, Screen Reader, Software Engineering, AI Infrastructure, IT General Controls (ITGC), Okta, Large Language Models, Build Management, AI Platforms, Bots
- **Published:** August 29, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.workingnomads.com/job/go/1820470/

## About the Role

* 5+ years of software engineering experience, with significant time in infrastructure, platform, or backend engineering
 * A track record of building internal platforms or paved paths that other engineers and teams adopted, not just maintained, with excellent communication skills collaborating across security, IT, and business teams
 * Strong system design skills and experience architecting resilient, observable production systems
 * Hands-on experience with LLM operations: model gateways or routing, agent runtimes, evals, or cost/usage instrumentation
 * Experience with identity and access management in an enterprise environment (e.g., Okta, SSO, secure service-to-service auth), * Experience building internal AI platforms or workspaces (the Ramp Glass / JPMorgan LLM Suite category) or developer platforms at a comparable scale
 * Familiarity with MCP, agent orchestration frameworks, or skill/plugin registry patterns
 * Experience working within audit and compliance programs (SOX/ITGC) or building systems with audit requirements
 * A history of being the first infrastructure hire on a small team, comfortable setting standards from scratch across a broad scope of responsibilities, Job level and actual compensation will be decided based on factors including, but not limited to, individual qualifications objectively assessed during the interview process (including skills and prior relevant experience, potential impact, and scope of role), market demands, and specific work location.

## Description

* Design and build the hosting golden path for internal AI applications, bots, and agents, including runtime patterns for long-running workflows, scheduled jobs, and agent execution
 * Build the model routing layer that directs tasks across frontier and lower-cost models based on cost, capability, and policy with a full audit trail
 * Stand up observability, usage analytics, audit logging, and per-team cost attribution for AI workloads across the company
 * Integrate identity, access, and security patterns (Okta-connected by default) so every internal AI app is safe on day one, including the sanctioned path for workflows touching customer, financial, or people data
 * Partner with engineers on our product AI infrastructure teams to share gateways and telemetry rather than building parallel systems
 * Help shape the team's platform strategy, roadmap, and engineering best practices as a founding member of the infrastructure pillar, * Holding interviews in an accessible location
 * Enabling closed captioning on video conferencing
 * Ensuring all written communication be compatible with screen readers
 * Changing the mode or format of interviews

To ensure the integrity of our hiring process and facilitate a more personal connection, we require all candidates keep their cameras on during video interviews. Additionally, if hired you will be required to attend in person onboarding.


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