SmartVerify — Cloud Native Sr. Engineer (Data Plane)
Core
Building the data security and compliance layer for enterprise AI by inspecting interactions between AI agents and data, enforcing policy, and producing audit trails.
Role type
Senior IC systems engineer (data plane)
Builds
Inline inspection infrastructure for enterprise AI agents and data queries
Domain
AI governance, data security, distributed systems
Deliverable
production ML models | infrastructure
Required skills
Rust or Go or C++, Kubernetes (EKS), distributed systems fundamentals, low-level networking (TCP/IP, proxies), systems debugging, open source code reasoning
Preferred skills
Envoy proxy, WebAssembly (WASM), CNCF project contributions, gRPC/Protocol Buffers, AWS platform (EKS, IAM, KMS, Kinesis), Observability (Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry), mTLS/SPIFFE/SPIRE, security/compliance/audit logging
Technologies
Rust, Go, C++, Kubernetes, Envoy, WASM, EKS, Helm, GitOps, Prometheus, Grafana, Redis, gRPC, Protocol Buffers, AWS, OpenTelemetry
Responsibilities
Develop WASM filters for deep packet inspection within the Envoy data plane, manage EKS deployments and CI/CD pipelines, build observability solutions for the hot path, integrate Redis sidecars for low-latency caching, ensure reliable audit log streaming, author architectural decision records (ADRs)
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC
