Adaption
Platform Engineer, APIs and Security
San Francisco · Hybrid · Full-time · Posted Sep 24, 2026
- Experience
- 5+ years; backend, infrastructure, or platform engineering, including ownership of a multi-tenant API or control plane.
About the job
Build and operate the multi-tenant platform and public APIs that connect enterprise and sovereign customers to Adaption’s inference infrastructure, with security and auditability at the core.
What you'll do
- Build the control plane for credentials, quotas, rate limits, and tenant isolation; test and strengthen tenant boundaries.
- Own public inference APIs, including streaming, versioning, compatibility, and migrations.
- Implement usage metering, credit reservation, entitlements, and enterprise features such as SSO, access controls, audit logs, and data residency.
What they ask for
- 5+ years in backend, infrastructure, or platform engineering, including ownership of a multi-tenant API or control plane.
- Deep knowledge of authentication, credential management, rate limiting, quotas, and tenant isolation.
- Strong Python skills and sound API design judgment.
- Experience with metering, billing, credits, or entitlements, including idempotency, reconciliation, and audit trails; and with enterprise or regulated environments.
Tools
Python, SSO, SAML/OIDC, SOC 2
AI focus
Build platform infrastructure for inference APIs; the company describes its broader goal as developing efficient AI that adapts in real time.
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