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Sales Engineer

About Keycard

Identity and access infrastructure that authenticates AI agents, assigns task-scoped permissions, enforces dynamic policy at runtime, and audits agent activity for enterprises.

Series A · 11–50 people

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category-defining applications and experiences while giving platform and security teams the security, scalability, visibility, control, and enablement they need to accelerate their organizations journey to becoming agent native. We’re a small, distributed team of repeat founders and builders, with backgrounds from Snyk, Auth0, HashiCorp, and Heroku. Joining Keycard now means helping define not just our technology, but also the culture and company we’re building together—during a once-in-a-generation platform shift. This is a true founding role: create the playbook, shape the product, and set the standard for the team that follows. You will run everything from fast proofs of value with small technical teams to first-of-kind enterprise deployments that pass security review. If you want a finished machine, this is not it. If you want to build one, keep reading. What You'll Build Own
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About Keycard At Keycard, we’re building identity & access infrastructure for the agent-native era—where software isn’t static, but a dynamic, constantly changing system of AI agents working on behalf of people and businesses to complete dynamic tasks at runtime. Our mission is to unlock the agent economy by empowering developers and enterprises with the secure, scalable foundations they need to build, deploy, adopt, and trust agentic applications. To do this, we’re building the real-time, in-band, contextual guardrails required to transition from human-driven to truly autonomous and agentic workflows that give users, builders, and security teams the confidence and control they need to bring agents out of the lab and into production. At our core, we’re laser-focused on delivering a delightful, best-in-class developer experience that gives them the tools they need to create category-defining applications and experiences while giving platform and security teams the security, scalability, visibility, control, and enablement they need to accelerate their organizations journey to becoming agent native. We’re a small, distributed team of repeat founders and builders, with backgrounds from Snyk, Auth0, HashiCorp, and Heroku. Joining Keycard now means helping define not just our technology, but also the culture and company we’re building together—during a once-in-a-generation plat [... source excerpt omitted ...] ll technical teams to first-of-kind enterprise deployments that pass security review. If you want a finished machine, this is not it. If you want to build one, keep reading. What You'll Build Own the technical win end to end, across discovery, demos, architecture, evaluation, security review, and rollout. Translate identity, policy, delegation, and audit into customer outcomes, not jargon, whether you are talking to a staff engineer or a CISO. Map Keycard into complex identity, cloud, policy, SIEM, API, and agent ecosystems. Design and lead high-stakes workshops, pilots, and executive technical narratives. Prototype integrations and unblock teams from evaluation to produc [... source excerpt omitted ...] t as the market moves. Turn first-of-kind customer work into reusable demo assets, technical content, reference architectures, and the first SE operating system. What You Bring Customer-facing technical depth plus the presence to run the room. Hands-on ability with APIs, SDKs, OAuth/OIDC, cloud systems, and modern developer workflows, and fluency in identity or security architecture, distributed systems, or cloud infrastructure. Experience navigating enterprise security reviews, proofs of value, and complex integrations. A builder's bias: you can debug, prototype, teach, and simplify on the fly, and move from whiteboard to code to executive conversation without losing the t

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