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Tigera

Cloud-native network security & observability platform

Senior Software Engineer - Agentic AI security

Backend EngineeringConfirmed live in the last 24 hours
Full-timeVancouver, BC, CanadaCA$125k - CA$150k

About the Job

Requirements

  • At least 5 years of experience as a software engineer, with a track record of shipping and supporting production code.
  • Strong proficiency in one or more of Go, C/C++, Rust, or Python.
  • Solid working knowledge of Kubernetes and containers, including how workloads are deployed, networked, and secured.
  • Understanding of Linux systems and networking outside Kubernetes, including hosts, virtual machines, and cloud infrastructure.
  • Ability to take on hard, open-ended technical problems in a fast-iteration, minimum viable product environment.
  • Ability to own features end to end in a fast-moving, early-stage product environment.
  • A Computer Science degree or equivalent practical experience.

Responsibilities

  • Build tools to distinguish AI agents from standard workloads and secure them against rogue behavior.
  • Work on traffic interception, policy enforcement, and observability for agentic workloads.
  • Take technical ideas from prototype to production.

Desired Qualifications

  • Expertise in proxy or service mesh technologies such as Envoy or Istio, including Kubernetes Gateway API or AI Gateway implementations.
  • Experience building detection, discovery, or asset inventory systems, such as traffic analysis, workload fingerprinting, or runtime telemetry.
  • Experience with eBPF or other kernel-level observability.
  • Experience with AI/ML systems, data pipelines, analytics, or modeling.
  • Familiarity with emerging agent protocols such as MCP (Model Context Protocol) and A2A (Agent-to-Agent).
  • Background in cloud-native security, zero-trust networking, or workload identity such as SPIFFE/SPIRE.
  • Open-source contributions in the cloud-native ecosystem.

About the Company

Tigera

Cloud-native network security & observability platform

Tigera offers an open-core enterprise platform for secure application connectivity in cloud-native environments. Its Calico product line provides Kubernetes networking, security, and observability across major clouds and distributions, using a high-performance eBPF data plane plus Ingress and Egress Gateways to manage traffic and policy enforcement for both containers and traditional workloads. The company differentiates itself with deep open-source roots from Project Calico and by selling enterprise-grade features in Calico Enterprise and Calico Cloud, including full-stack observability and CNAPP-style security. Its goal is to help organizations securely connect, monitor, and protect cloud-native apps across multi-cloud and multi-cluster environments with scalable, policy-driven operations.

Company size
51-200
Company stage
Series B
Total funding
$53M
Headquarters
San Jose, CA
Founded
2016

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