3 days ago

Associate Director, Software Engineering (Guardrail Platform Control Plane & Observability Track) (Shenzhen, GD, CN, 518010)

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Job Summary

Design and build an AI Guardrail Control Plane that manages safety policies, detector configurations, evaluation workflows, and enforcement across enterprise AI apps. Lead platform engineering for policy lifecycle, governance, runtime decision management, and tightly integrate with the runtime engine and AI gateway components. Own end-to-end observability, including LLM tracing (OpenTelemetry/OpenInference) and evaluation frameworks with production quality monitoring. Deliver scalable, production-grade backend services and operations.

Location: Shenzhen, Guangzhou, Xi'an

Workplace: Onsite

Employment Type: Full time

Job Function: Software Engineering

Seniority: Director level

Key Responsibilities

•Design and build the Guardrail Control Plane to manage AI safety policies, detector configurations, evaluation workflows, and enforcement strategies across enterprise AI applications.
•Develop scalable guardrail platform capabilities including policy lifecycle management, detector registry, configuration management, versioning, rollout/rollback, governance workflow, and runtime decision management.
•Design system architecture and APIs to integrate the Guardrail Control Plane with Runtime Engine, AI Gateway, RAG, Agent, and other AI platform components.
•Build AI platform observability capabilities for end-to-end visibility across AI workloads, including safety decisions, model interactions, performance metrics, cost insight, and operational analytics.
•Own hands-on delivery for the Guardrail Service, including coding, testing, troubleshooting, performance optimization, and production operations.

Key Requirements

•Bachelor’s degree or above in Computer Science or related discipline, with 8+ years of professional software engineering experience building production-grade backend platforms and distributed systems.
•Proven experience designing and implementing platform systems such as API platforms, workflow platforms, governance platforms, or internal developer platforms.
•Strong system design skills including service architecture, domain modeling, API design, configuration-driven systems, version management, and extensibility patterns.
•Hands-on programming experience with Python (FastAPI) and/or Go, independently designing, implementing, and operating backend services.
•Experience building observability and LLM tracing solutions, including OpenTelemetry/OpenInference and integrating tools such as Arize Phoenix, Langfuse, LangSmith, or MLflow.

Experience:Distributed systemsBackend platforms

Education:Bachelor's in Computer Science

Tech Stack:PythonGoFastAPIKubernetesDockerRedisPostgreSQLKafkaPubSubWebSocketSSEGRPCOpenTelemetryGCPAWSAzureOpenInference

Company Brief

HSBC

Global banking and financial services organisation offering retail, commercial, corporate and investment banking, wealth management, and global markets services across Europe, Asia, the Americas and the Middle East.

Industry: Banking

Company Size: Enterprise (1,001+ employees)

Revenue: USD 1B+

Growth: Public Company

Valuation: Public Company (Market Cap in USD)

Funding: IPO / Publicly Listed

Headquarters: London, United Kingdom

Founded: 1865

Glassdoor: 3.6

Website LinkedIn

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3 days ago

Associate Director, Software Engineering (Guardrail Platform Control Plane & Observability Track) (Shenzhen, GD, CN, 518010)

✓ Verified Job

Canonical indexed version, validated from employer's careers page.

Source: Company careers pageValidated by: Fursa AI

Last checked: 20 hours agoStatus: Live

Job Summary

Location: Shenzhen, Guangzhou, Xi'an

Workplace: Onsite

Employment Type: Full time

Job Function: Software Engineering

Seniority: Director level

Key Responsibilities

•Design and build the Guardrail Control Plane to manage AI safety policies, detector configurations, evaluation workflows, and enforcement strategies across enterprise AI applications.
•Develop scalable guardrail platform capabilities including policy lifecycle management, detector registry, configuration management, versioning, rollout/rollback, governance workflow, and runtime decision management.
•Design system architecture and APIs to integrate the Guardrail Control Plane with Runtime Engine, AI Gateway, RAG, Agent, and other AI platform components.
•Build AI platform observability capabilities for end-to-end visibility across AI workloads, including safety decisions, model interactions, performance metrics, cost insight, and operational analytics.
•Own hands-on delivery for the Guardrail Service, including coding, testing, troubleshooting, performance optimization, and production operations.

Key Requirements

•Bachelor’s degree or above in Computer Science or related discipline, with 8+ years of professional software engineering experience building production-grade backend platforms and distributed systems.
•Proven experience designing and implementing platform systems such as API platforms, workflow platforms, governance platforms, or internal developer platforms.
•Strong system design skills including service architecture, domain modeling, API design, configuration-driven systems, version management, and extensibility patterns.
•Hands-on programming experience with Python (FastAPI) and/or Go, independently designing, implementing, and operating backend services.
•Experience building observability and LLM tracing solutions, including OpenTelemetry/OpenInference and integrating tools such as Arize Phoenix, Langfuse, LangSmith, or MLflow.

Experience:Distributed systemsBackend platforms

Education:Bachelor's in Computer Science

Tech Stack:PythonGoFastAPIKubernetesDockerRedisPostgreSQLKafkaPubSubWebSocketSSEGRPCOpenTelemetryGCPAWSAzureOpenInference

Company Brief

HSBC

Industry: Banking

Company Size: Enterprise (1,001+ employees)

Revenue: USD 1B+

Growth: Public Company

Valuation: Public Company (Market Cap in USD)

Funding: IPO / Publicly Listed

Headquarters: London, United Kingdom

Founded: 1865

Glassdoor: 3.6

Website LinkedIn