Platform Engineer, APIs and Security

Adaption

$135K — $160K *
Enterprise Technology
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5+ years in backend, infrastructure, or platform engineering with multi-tenant API or control plane ownership.
  • Deep knowledge of authentication, credential management, rate limiting, quotas, and tenant isolation.
  • Strong Python skills and sound API design judgment, especially with high-throughput or streaming APIs.
  • Experience with metering, billing, credits, or entitlements including idempotency, reconciliation, and audit trails.
  • Familiarity with enterprise or regulated environments, such as SSO, SAML/OIDC, SOC 2, data residency, or sovereign deployments.

Responsibilities

  • Build the multi-tenant control plane including credentials, quotas, rate limits, and tenant isolation.
  • Own public inference APIs, focusing on streaming, versioning, compatibility, and migrations.
  • Implement accurate usage metering, credit reservation, and entitlement enforcement.
  • Develop enterprise capabilities like SSO, access controls, audit logs, and data residency.
  • Test and continuously strengthen tenant boundaries.

Benefits

  • Flexible work arrangements, combining in-person collaboration and a distributed global-first team.
  • Adaption Passport offering an annual travel stipend to explore a new country.
  • Weekly lunch stipend for take-out or grocery delivery.
  • Comprehensive medical benefits and generous paid time off.
Full Job Description
The role

You'll build the multi-tenant platform that turns our inference infrastructure into a product enterprises and sovereign customers can trust.

You'll own the systems between customers and our inference stack: authentication, tenant isolation, quotas, metering, entitlements, and the public API. Security and auditability are core product requirements, not layers added later.

Responsibilities
  • Build the multi-tenant control plane, including credentials, quotas, rate limits, and tenant isolation.
  • Own our public inference APIs, including streaming, versioning, compatibility, and migrations.
  • Implement accurate usage metering, credit reservation, and entitlement enforcement.
  • Build enterprise capabilities such as SSO, access controls, audit logs, and data residency.
  • Test and continuously strengthen the tenant boundary.
Qualifications
  • 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, ideally with high-throughput or streaming APIs.
  • Experience with metering, billing, credits, or entitlements, including idempotency, reconciliation, and audit trails.
  • Experience with enterprise or regulated environments, such as SSO, SAML/OIDC, SOC 2, data residency, or sovereign deployments.


Above all, we're looking for great teammates who make work feel lighter and aren't afraid to go out on a limb with bold ideas. You don't need to be perfect, but you do need to be adaptable. We encourage you to apply, even if you don't check every box.

Benefits
  • Flexible work: In-person collaboration in the Bay Area, a distributed global-first team, and team offsites.
  • Adaption Passport: Annual travel stipend to explore a country you've never visited. We're building intelligence that evolves alongside you, so we encourage you to keep expanding your horizons.
  • Lunch Stipend: Weekly meal allowance for take-out or grocery delivery.
  • Well-Being: Comprehensive medical benefits and generous paid time off.

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