Coder

Software Engineer (AI Governance)

Coder$90K — $120K *
Information Technology
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 3+ years of full-stack development experience, 1+ year in Go
  • Proficiency in building distributed systems in Go
  • Strong communication skills, both verbal and written
  • Expert debugging and troubleshooting abilities
  • Self-motivated with a creative and analytical mindset

Responsibilities

  • Design and build innovative product features for remote development
  • Enhance open source projects that work with popular developer tools
  • Advocate for best practices among team members and contributors
  • Collaborate with Product and Design teams for integration projects
  • Document system designs and implementations for team knowledge sharing
  • Support the enterprise user base in collaboration with Customer Success teams
  • Utilize advanced AI technologies to improve developer experiences
  • Iterate rapidly from prototype to implementation in a dynamic team setting

Benefits

  • Transparent and efficient interview process typically completed in 2-4 weeks
  • Opportunity to work with cutting-edge AI technologies
  • Engaged in a culture that appreciates creativity and curiosity
  • Supportive approach to AI use in interviews, ensuring fairness and transparency
  • Possibility of interaction with a mix of individual contributors and senior leaders throughout the interview process
Full Job Description
We're looking for a Software Engineer to help shape AI governance for developer tooling at Coder. This 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 workspaces.

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.

What you'll do here
  • 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, JetBrains, 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 JetBrains, 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

What we're looking for
  • 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


Our tech stack
  • Frontend: Typescript, React, Vite
  • Backend: Go, Postgres, GCP, Kubernetes, gRPC
  • IDE Extensions: Typescript, Kotlin
  • Observability: Prometheus, Grafana
  • CI/CD: GitHub Actions
  • General: GitHub, Slack, Discord, Notion


Bonus tacos if you have
  • (Tacos? If you need an ice-breaker, ask how we say thanks by giving tacos!)
  • Experience with TypeScript 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


Interview process

We believe that the interview process should be transparent, consistent, and enjoyable. We value your time and hope to complete the interview process in two to four weeks, if schedules allow. Through your interviews, you will meet a mix of individual contributors, managers, and senior leaders.

AI use during the interview process

As an AI company, Coder embraces the use of AI tools, and we want to be transparent about our expectations as you navigate our interview process.

Not permitted: Using AI assistance during conversational interviews.

Permitted: Using AI tooling for take-home assessments. Please flag where and to what extent it was used in your take-home. Your submission will not be penalized for using AI as long as it is done honestly.

Our use of AI in hiring

We use AI tools to help manage our recruitment process efficiently and fairly. Specifically:
  • Ashby helps us review inbound applications by surfacing candidates who best match the role requirements we've defined. This tool does not make hiring decisions - it helps our team prioritize which applications to review first.
  • Granola takes notes during our interview calls so our team can focus on the conversation with you.

All hiring decisions are made by humans. Our team reviews applications, conducts interviews, and makes final selections. AI tools assist us but never replace human judgment, and these practices are conducted in compliance with applicable data protection, AI governance, and labor laws. Your data is not used to train AI models.

In accordance with New York City Local Law 144, an independent bias audit has been conducted on "Automated Employment Decision Tools"; results are available for Ashby.

If you're applying for a role at Coder and have questions about how we use AI in our process, or if you'd like to request information about the data we collect, please contact [redacted].

About Coder

Coder is a software development company that provides a platform for developers to collaborate and build software more efficiently. The company's platform includes tools for code review, testing, and deployment, as well as features for project management and communication. Coder's clients include major technology companies and startups, and the company has raised over $130 million in funding to date.
Learn more about Coder
Size
200 employees
Industry
Founded
2016

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