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About the Role

Tinder is seeking an engineer to own the design and functions of its agent platform. This role involves close collaboration with internal teams to develop real use cases, ensuring the platform is secure, reliable, and simple to build upon. You will be responsible for making the platform safe by default for agents handling sensitive data and consequential actions, ensuring it is fast and reliable for teams to build on, and simplifying the process for adding new connectors or agents.

Responsibilities

Work closely with internal teams to build real solutions for challenges they are facing day to day.
Own the design of the agent platform across gateway, connectors, identity, policy, guardrails, observability and cost, and write the roadmap for how it evolves.
Design identity and delegation for agents: acting on behalf of a user, agent-owned identities for unattended jobs, short-lived scoped credentials, and every action traceable to a responsible human.
Build access control beyond tool allowlists: per-action, per-argument and per-data-class policy, human approval for irreversible actions, and policy that's reviewable and tested.
Build guardrails enforced at the tool boundary, not in prompts, against prompt injection through tool output, confused-deputy access, data exfiltration and over-broad scopes.
Make agent behavior observable: traces of tool calls and decisions, audit trails investigators can use, evals that catch regressions when models or prompts change, and per-team cost attribution.
Set the bar for connectors and third-party MCP servers: onboarding, review, versioning, sandboxing and safe defaults.
Run the platform as production and own its on-call: latency budgets, failure modes, rate limits and quotas, kill switches and incident response.
Partner with Security, our forward deployed engineers and platform teams, and mentor the engineers who build on and contribute to the platform.

Requirements

Great communication and collaboration skills, experience working with real challenges of customer
8+ years building backend, infrastructure or platform systems that other teams depend on, with recent hands-on work on LLM agents, tool use or MCP.
Experience shipping identity or authorization systems: OAuth 2.0 and OIDC, token exchange or delegation, service identity, and policy models (RBAC, ABAC or relationship-based).
An attacker's mindset about agent systems, and the ability to explain why prompt-level defenses aren't enough.
Experience operating gateways, proxies or other services in the critical request path, including on-call, observability and incident response.
Strong skills in Python or TypeScript, and daily use of AI coding tools with a clear sense of where they fail.
A track record of working well with security teams and impatient internal customers, turning "no" into a safe "yes, like this."

Skills

LLM agents
tool use
MCP
OAuth 2.0
OIDC
token exchange
delegation
service identity
RBAC
ABAC
Python
TypeScript
AI coding tools
gateways
proxies
on-call
observability
incident response
policy engines
workload identity
LLM gateway
model router
MCP server
OpenTelemetry
tracing
agent identity
MCP authorization standards
application protection
identity and access management
threat detection
incident response

Location

Palo Alto, California

Work Type

Hybrid

Experience Level

8+ years

Salary/Compensations

$225,000 - $265,000

Benefits

Flexible Vacation
10 Sick Days
Time off to volunteer
Charitable donations matched up to $15,000 annually
Comprehensive health, vision, and dental coverage
100% 401(k) employer match up to 10%
Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP)
100% paid parental leave (including for non-birthing parents)
Family forming benefits
Mentorship through our MentorMatch program
Access to 6,000+ online courses through Udemy
Annual $3,000 stipend for professional development
Access to mental health support via Modern Health
Paid concierge medical membership
Pet insurance
Fitness membership subsidy
Commuter subsidy
Free subscription to Tinder Gold

About the Company

As humans, there are few things more exciting than meeting someone new. At Tinder, we’re inspired by the challenge of keeping the magic of human connection alive. With tens of millions of users, hundreds of millions of downloads, 2+ billion swipes per day, 20+ million matches per day, and a presence in 190+ countries, our reach is expansive—and rapidly growing.
We work together to solve complex problems. Behind the simplicity of every match, we think deeply about human relationships, behavioral science, network economics, AI and ML, online and real-world safety, cultural nuances, loneliness, love, sex, and more.
Take the Lead: We don't ghost our work or each other. Just as users don't leave their matches hanging, we don't let each other down.
Move Fast: We have a bias for action and urgency. Something that could be done tomorrow would be better if done today.
Better Together: We keep connection at the heart of dating and at the heart of how we work. Just as our users are better when they connect with others, so are we when we collaborate.
Real Talk: We say the hard thing the human way. Just as we ask our users to behave with kindness and candor in our community, we expect Team Tinder to do the same.
Safety First: We act with integrity, transparency, and consistency so people feel safe—whether they're swiping, matching, or working alongside us.
Spark Fun: We have fun to unlock creativity, fuel innovation, and help us build better experiences for daters.

Equal Opportunity

At Tinder, we don’t just accept difference, we celebrate it. We strive to build a workplace that reflects the rich diversity of our members around the world, and we value unique perspectives and backgrounds. Even if you don’t meet all the listed qualifications, we invite you to apply and show us how your skills could transfer. Tinder is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace where we welcome people of all sexes, gender identities, races, ethnicities, disabilities, and other lived experiences. Learn more here: https://www.lifeattinder.com/dei
If you require reasonable accommodation to complete a job application, pre-employment testing, or a job interview or to otherwise participate in the hiring process, please speak to your Talent Acquisition Partner directly.