About the Role
C1.ai is building a horizontal identity platform that any company and AI agent can plug into to understand and manage access. We are a small, fast-moving company where engineers have real ownership and contribute to building the platform from the ground up.
Responsibilities
- Take on projects that matter and see them through to production.
- Build features end-to-end, from data model to UI, and own them after launch.
- Make decisions about architecture, scope, and tradeoffs without waiting around for direction.
- Work closely with customers, design, and product to figure out what’s actually worth building.
- Contribute to a high standard of code quality, system design, and operational reliability.
Requirements
- Have built and operated real production systems.
- Are comfortable moving across the stack, and know when to go deep.
- Prefer getting things done over debating ownership or process.
- Communicate clearly, especially in writing.
- Use AI tools because they make you more effective.
- Deep experience in identity, security, distributed systems, or large-scale data systems.
- Worked at a fast-growing startup and know what that environment demands.
- Built products or platforms for other developers.
Skills
- Identity
- Security
- Distributed systems
- Large-scale data systems
- SaaS applications
- Infrastructure
- Internal tools
- AI agents
Location
- Portland
- San Francisco
- New York
Work Type
- In-office
Experience Level
- Senior level or above
Salary/Compensations
- $180k – $250k
Benefits
- Meaningful equity
- Full medical, dental, and vision coverage
- Solid benefits across the board
About the Company
- C1.ai is building a horizontal identity platform.
- Identity is becoming the control plane for modern companies.
- The old approach involves IT teams duct-taping systems together or rigid IGA tools that only work across a narrow set of HR and SSO integrations.
- We’re building something more foundational: a horizontal identity platform that any company—and increasingly, any AI agent—can plug into to understand and manage access.
- SaaS apps, infrastructure, internal tools, AI agents—if it has a concept of “who,” it should connect to us.
- We’re still small, and we move fast.
- Impact matters more than ownership.
- We’d rather ship something real than talk about it.
- People here are trusted to operate independently.
- If something isn’t working, we fix it properly—we don’t paper over it.
- Using AI effectively is expected, not optional.
Equal Opportunity
- c1.ai is an equal opportunity employer. We consider all qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or veteran status.
