AI Engineer - MCP Platform Governance

We are looking for an AI Engineer to build the automations and controls that enable APIs to be exposed to AI agents in a secure, traceable, and scalable way. In this role, you will work at the intersection of backend development, cloud infrastructure, and AI platform governance, helping teams safely connect their services to AI agents. You will collaborate closely with architecture and security teams to design robust, well-documented solutions.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain services and automations to register, modify, consume, and revoke MCP servers and tools
• Integrate with AWS Bedrock AgentCore Gateway, including targets, interceptors, and authentication
• Develop on the internal developer portal (Backstage or a similar platform), including plugins, forms, approval workflows, and backend services
• Implement fine-grained permissions by consumer, tool, operation, and environment, with idempotency and reconciliation
• Write and run tests for authorization, revocation, retries, and partial failures
• Build infrastructure as code, pipelines, and observability (correlated logs and alerts)
• Create documentation and runbooks, and support onboarding and training for receiving teams
• Partner with the architecture team to define and evaluate design alternatives

Requirements

• 2+ years of backend development experience (Python, TypeScript, or Java) with a focus on API design
• Hands-on experience with AWS (e.g., Lambda, API Gateway, or IAM)
• Working knowledge of OAuth 2.0 and OIDC
• Experience with infrastructure as code and CI/CD
• Experience with automated testing
• Clear communicator with both technical and security teams
• Ability to quickly learn new technologies and work with guidance when needed
• Strong ownership of your own dependencies and deliverables, with the ability to document and explain what you build
• Advanced Spanish and the ability to read technical documentation in English

Nice to have

• Experience with MCP, AI agents, or AWS Bedrock/AgentCore
• Experience with Backstage or other developer portals
• Familiarity with Entra ID, Istio, and Kubernetes
• Experience in the financial sector or other regulated environments

Benefits

• Comprehensive wellness: WellHub Plan (Gympass) with access to thousands of centers, annual ophthalmological operation and exclusive discounts on health and beauty
• 100% Payroll Scheme
• Legal Benefits
• Benefits Package
• Professional Development Plan
• Multicultural Collaboration
• Referal Program
• Commercial Agreements and Discounts: Through exclusive agreements with partner companies, EPAMers and their families have access to special prices on products and services, offered as discounts for being part of EPAM
• Development opportunities