Keycard
identity & access infrastructure
StaffPlatformEngineer
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“Staff Platform Engineer at Keycard. Skills: platform engineering, distributed systems, identity and access infrastructure, agent-native systems. build the core systems and infrastructure that power Keycard. identity services”
What You'll Achieve.
deliver trusted agent-native experiences at global scale; empowering every engineer to deliver quickly and with confidence; advance both developer productivity and security posture
Industry & Context.
think in terms of dynamic, reactive systems; expertise in consensus, coordination, and state management; build systems that are secure, resilient, and fault-tolerant; create automation, pipelines, and developer platforms that make shipping reliable software the default; tackling complex distributed systems
hiring focused in North and South America
What They're Looking For.
Must Have
Go, Rust, developer-facing platforms, Kubernetes operators, CI/CD abstractions, internal tooling, core services, dynamic, reactive systems, distributed systems instincts, consensus, coordination, state management, secure systems, resilient systems, fault-tolerant systems, observability, automation, pipelines, developer platforms, 0→1 environments, technical excellence
Nice to Have
identity and access protocols (OIDC, OAuth, mTLS), emerging agent protocols like MCP and A2A, edge computing, intelligent routing, globally distributed systems, eBPF, service meshes, custom Kubernetes operators, plugin-driven architectures (WASM, dynamic policy engines), coding agents (Claude Code, Cursor, MCP)
What You'll Do.
build the core systems and infrastructure that power Keycard
build Kubernetes operators
contribute to core product services
provide deterministic guarantees around delivery
shape how we use agents internally
contribute to how Keycard becomes an agent-native engineering organization
How You'll Work.
Team & Collaboration
work directly with founders, product, design, and the engineers building our SDKs and core services; collaborate with the founders and investors
Communication Scope
communicate clearly through written plans and async updates; know when to jump on a call
Process & Methodology
make hard trade-offs to ship today while laying groundwork for the long-term system, use iteration to accelerate the learning loop
Full Job Description
ABOUT KEYCARD At Keycard http://keycard.ai, we’re building identity & access infrastructure for the agent-native era—where software isn’t static, but a dynamic, constantly changing system of AI agents working on behalf of people and businesses to complete dynamic tasks at runtime. Our mission is to unlock the agent economy by empowering developers and enterprises with the secure, scalable foundations they need to build, deploy, adopt, and trust agentic applications. To do this, we’re building the real-time, in-band, contextual guardrails required to transition from human-driven to truly autonomous and agentic workflows that give users, builders, and security teams the confidence and control they need to bring agents out of the lab and into production. At our core, we’re laser-focused on delivering a delightful, best-in-class developer experience that gives them the tools they need to create category-defining applications and experiences while giving platform and security teams the security, scalability, visibility, control, and enablement they need to accelerate their organizations journey to becoming agent native. We’re a small, distributed team of repeat founders and builders, with backgrounds from Snyk https://www.snyk.io, Auth0 https://auth0.com, HashiCorp https://hashicorp.com, and Heroku https://heroku.com. Joining Keycard now means helping define not just our technology, but also the culture and company we’re building together—during a once-in-a-generation platform shift. THE ROLE We're hiring a Staff Platform Engineer to build the core systems and infrastructure that power Keycard — from identity services and enforcement paths to the developer platforms and automation that let every engineer ship with confidence. Keycard is a control plane for agents: identity propagation, policy enforcement, audit logging, and runtime governance. You'll move up and down the stack — building Kubernetes operators and CI/CD automation one day, contributing to core product serv
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