Senior Platform Engineer

• Design and build platform services that power the entire Kagi product ecosystem including auth and identity, billing, configuration, and shared internal infrastructure. • Join a small team responsible for the foundational services that every Kagi product depends on. • Think carefully about API contracts and service boundaries with strong opinions about correctness in auth and data migration.

• Have 5 or more years of backend or platform engineering experience in production environments. • Have proficiency in one or more of Go, Rust, or Crystal. • Have experience designing and operating distributed services with well-defined boundaries and know how to split a monolith safely. • Have a strong understanding of auth and identity systems including OIDC, OAuth 2.0, SSO, token validation, and the failure modes that come with them. • Have comfort with data migration at scale having moved users or records between systems without losing data or trust. • Have the discipline to write internal services that others can depend on with good API design, useful error messages, and clear documentation.

• Have experience building compliance and regulatory tooling for markets such as the EU, UK, and Australia. • Have experience with billing and subscription infrastructure. • Have experience contributing to developer tooling and open-source scaffolding. • Have experience working in a small deliberate team that values correctness over speed.

• Own the kagi-configuration service, the shared configuration and settings layer that all Kagi products read from. • Build and maintain identity infrastructure including OIDC integration, user migration pipelines, SSO, and MFA enforcement. • Build compliance and trust tooling including harm reporting and regulatory tooling required to operate in the EU, UK, Australia, and other markets. • Define internal platform APIs and service contracts that product teams can build reliably on top of. • Contribute to developer tooling and open-source scaffolding to improve engineering velocity across the organisation.

• Work fully remote from anywhere in the world. • Join a company building a friendly internet free from ads, tracking, and distractions. • Build foundational platform services that power the entire Kagi product ecosystem.

Kagi is building a better web with a companion for exploration, learning, and interaction free from ads, tracking, and distractions. Products include Kagi Search, Orion browser, Kagi Assistant, Kagi News, Kagi Summarizer, and Kagi Translate. Every product reflects a commitment to a surveillance-free internet designed around the user.