Software Engineer; AI Governance

We’re looking for a Software Engineer to help shape AI governance for developer tooling s role sits on our AI Governance team, which builds and maintains two enterprise-grade components of Coder's AI governance stack.

AI Gateway is a centralized LLM gateway that sits between coding agents and providers such as OpenAI or Anthropic, providing organizations with audit trails, token tracking, cost control, and centralized authentication. Agent Firewall wraps those agents with default‑deny network policies, controlling which domains and methods they can reach inside work spaces.

This team works across the full stack – from Go backend and React frontend, to integrating with LLM provider APIs. Day‑to‑day, you’ll be shipping features, hardening security boundaries, collaborating with enterprise customers on real‑world policy needs, and contributing to Coder's open‑source ecosystem.

• Design and build product features that push the standard for remote development in self-hosted environments

• Create and improve upon popular open source projects that integrate with VS Code, Jet Brains, and other developer tools

• Champion best practices to both internal team members and external contributors

• Collaborate with Product and Design teams at Coder, as well as with partners like Jet Brains, to execute key product integrations

• Document the design, implementation, and operations of systems for knowledge sharing within the team

• Work alongside Customer Success teams to support Coder’s enterprise user base

• Work with cutting-edge AI technologies to create seamless, painless developer experiences

• Rapidly iterate from prototype to implementation in a highly adaptive, reactive team environment

• 3+ years of full-stack experience writing code in a professional setting, with 1+ year(s) writing Go (ideally in current or most recent position)

• Proficiency in building distributed systems in Go

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills

• Exceptional debugging and troubleshooting skills, and the tenacity to drive a solution to a conclusion

• You are self‑motivated with a creative and analytical mindset

• Frontend:
  Typescript, React, Vite

• Backend:
  Go, Postgres, GCP, Kubernetes, gRPC

• IDE Extensions:
  Typescript, Kotlin

• Observability:
  Prometheus, Grafana

• CI/CD:
  Git Hub Actions

• General:
  Git Hub, Slack, Discord, Notion

• (Tacos? If you need an ice‑breaker, ask how we say thanks by giving tacos!)

• Experience with Type Script and React

• You have a background in developer tooling, platform engineering, or IaC

• You have a curiosity about the latest tech trends and what is going on in the world of developer tools

We are committed to providing equal employment opportunities to qualified applicants and do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, pregnancy, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, national origin, age, marital status, genetic information, disability, protected veteran status or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local laws.