ngrok
Full-stack Software Engineer III/Senior, AI Gateway
$166K–$248K
San Francisco, CA · Senior · Full-time · Posted May 26, 2026
- Visa sponsorship
- Unable to provide visa sponsorship. Applicants must be authorized to work in the United States on a permanent, ongoing basis without the need for current or future sponsorship.
About the job
Builds ngrok’s AI Gateway systems for identifying, enforcing policies on, tracking, and explaining AI traffic in production.
What you'll do
- Build AI-aware gateway components that classify and handle live AI traffic.
- Implement traffic policies and systems for usage and token tracking, enforcement, and observability.
- Collaborate with product, design, and Gateway, Customer Data, and Platform teams to ship reliable customer-facing features.
What they ask for
- Experience in frontend engineering, including expertise in TypeScript, React, HTML, and CSS.
- Comfort with a statically typed, compiled language such as Go, Rust, C++, or Java.
- Experience working with AI/LLMs.
Nice to have
- Experience with AI platforms or inference infrastructure, API gateways, usage limits or billing-adjacent systems, or customer-facing observability tools.
- Go.
Pay
$202,500 – $247,500 USD base salary; $186,300 – $227,700 USD base salary; $180,000 – $220,000 USD base salary; $165,600 – $202,400 USD base salary
Tools
Go, TypeScript, React, HTML, CSS, Postgres, Kafka, Protobuf
AI focus
Build AI Gateway features for real-time AI traffic classification, policy enforcement, usage and token measurement, and observability.
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