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# Senior Software Engineer - Agentic AI security - 2 positions at Tigera

- **Company:** Tigera
- **Location:** Vancouver, Canada
- **Posted:** 2026-10-10
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-18
- **Apply:** https://boards.greenhouse.io/tigera/jobs/4742843005?gh_jid=4742843005

## Job description

Tigera—the pioneer behind Calico and Lynx—is defining the future of AI agent security, workload governance, and cloud-native networking. As autonomous AI agents, LLM frameworks, and microservices proliferate across enterprise infrastructure, Tigera delivers the deep visibility, runtime protection, and eBPF-driven enforcement control required to secure the next generation of computing.

From modern cloud-native architectures to cutting-edge AI agent ecosystems, our technology safeguards over 1 million Kubernetes clusters across multicloud and hybrid environments. Trusted by world-class innovation leaders—including NVIDIA, Royal Bank of Canada, Bloomberg, Chipotle, GoDaddy, and Upwork—we empower enterprises to build, scale, and innovate with AI safely and without compromise.

At Tigera, our customers are the heroes of our story. We aim high, move fast, foster continuous learning, and build a high-trust, highly collaborative environment where every voice shapes the future of AI security. If you are looking to help make a substantial impact, and our values and products align with your vision of your career growth, we want to hear from you!

## About Your Role

Tigera is looking for passionate and skilled software engineers to join us in our mission to secure the next generation of agentic AI workloads running on Kubernetes and beyond. With Lynx by Tigera, we have a platform that discovers agentic AI on any host, secures it through the kernel and our gateway. You will get to work at the cutting edge of AI agent security and help define what makes an agent an agent. You will help build the tools to distinguish an AI agent from a standard workload and secure it  so it cannot go rogue! You will get to work with technologies such as eBPF, Go, Python, Cedar, agentgateway, OpenTelemetry, ClickHouse and more.

You will be joining a team that is highly engineering-focused with a culture that values diversity, collaboration, agility, and innovation, keeping us one step ahead in the exciting and fast moving cloud-native technology space. You’ll work on the hardest parts of the stack: traffic interception, policy enforcement, and observability for agentic workloads. You’ll take ideas from prototype to production quickly.

For this role, we are looking to hire in Vancouver (Hybrid).

Vancouver Salary Range: CAD $125,000 to CAD $150,000

You Have

- 5+ years 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 (hosts, VMs, cloud infrastructure)
- Thrives on fast iteration and MVP work, and likes taking on hard, open-ended technical problems
- Comfortable owning features end to end in a fast-moving, early-stage product environment
- CS degree or equivalent practical experience

Nice-to-Haves

- Expertise in proxy or service mesh technologies such as Envoy and/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 (e.g., SPIFFE/SPIRE)
- Open source contributions in the cloud-native ecosystem

But more than any specific experience, the most important criteria for success will be your talent, energy, and passion to help build and shape the future within a collaborative, agile, community-based environment. With offices in San Francisco, San Jose, Vancouver (Canada), Cork (Ireland), and London (England), we have a thriving team of diverse individuals from all over the world. We believe in a collaborative, flexible work environment based on respect for, and commitment from, every employee. We also offer a competitive compensation package along with full health, vision, and dental benefits. These benefits, coupled with an amazing team of individuals who believe in our mission and value openness, collaboration, and teamwork, make Tigera an awesome place to work.

## About Tigera

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Tigera provides unified security, observability, and authorization control for AI agents and Kubernetes workloads through its Calico and Lynx platforms.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series B; $53M total funding)
- **Headquarters**: San Jose, California, USA
- **Founded**: 2016
- **Founders**: Ratan Tipirneni (CEO), Pervez Sikora (former President), Alain Mayer (CTO)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Kubernetes-native networking and security; AI agent security and governance
- **Target customers**: AI & Platform Engineering teams, Security teams at large enterprises (B2B, Enterprise)
- **Mission statement**: "Control and visibility for every AI workload and agent, wherever they run"

## Products & Services
- **[Calico Platform](https://www.tigera.io/)**: Unified platform for Kubernetes networking, security, and observability. Powered by Calico Open Source, Istio, Envoy, and eBPF. Provides full visibility into AI agents, runtime enforcement, and policy automation across any Kubernetes distribution, VM, or bare metal host. Used by 1M+ clusters daily.
- **[Lynx](https://www.tigera.io/)**: AI Agent Security, Observability & Enforcement for Kubernetes. Allows teams to audit, observe, and enforce what AI agents are authorized to do *before* they act. Audit-ready by default with traceable logs for every agent action and policy decision.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation**: Not publicly disclosed
- **Key Metrics**:
  - Annual Revenue: ~$10.5M per [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/company/tigera)
  - Total Funding: $53M (Series B closed Dec 2018 for $30M; Series A $13M in 2016; Venture round $10M)
  - Nodes Secured Daily: 8M+
  - Clusters Under Management: 1M+
- **Notable Customers**: NVIDIA, Royal Bank of Canada, Bloomberg, Chipotle, GoDaddy, Upwork
- **Investors/Partners**: 4 investors in Series B, 3 in Series A (exact names not fully disclosed in source)
- **Growth Signals**: Operating across 6 countries (USA, Canada, Ireland, India, Israel, UK); named GigaOM Leader and Outperformer; expanding into AI agent security (Lynx product launch)

## Competitive Advantages
- **Deep Kubernetes expertise**: Created and maintains Calico Open Source, the most widely adopted container networking and security solution
- **NSX alternative**: Migrate off VMware NSX without rearchitecting the network
- **Proactive enforcement**: Unlike traditional security tools that audit after the fact, Tigera enforces authorization *before* agents act
- **Proven at scale**: 8M+ nodes secured daily across 1M+ clusters in production at demanding enterprises
- **No vendor lock-in**: Works across every Kubernetes distribution, cloud provider, and on-premises environment
- **Single console**: One operator installs, configures, and manages the full networking and security stack

## Strategic Focus
- **AI Agent Security**: Extending policy enforcement and observability to govern autonomous AI agents as they become embedded in critical business processes
- **Simplification**: Reducing operational burden with automated policy recommendations, testing, and deployment
- **Unified platform**: Eliminating tool sprawl and fragmented controls across Kubernetes environments
- **Open-source commitment**: Maintaining Calico Open Source as the leading standard while offering advanced capabilities commercially

## Why Work Here
- **Company culture**: Collaborative, flexible work environment based on respect and commitment. Core values include continuous learning, building, and testing. 4.6/5.0 employer rating (63 reviews) with high marks for culture (4.6), work-life balance (4.5), and career growth (4.5) per [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/company/tigera)
- **Remote/hybrid policy**: Global team with offices in USA, Canada, Ireland, and England; emphasizes flexible work environment
- **Perks**: Competitive salary with stock options, top-tier health/vision/dental benefits, monthly wellness allowance, quarterly team events, weekly team lunches, happy hours
- **Engineering culture**: Emphasis on continuous learning, certification, and open-source contribution. Team includes former engineers from Metaswitch, VMware, Microsoft, NGINX, and Project Calico
- **Team composition**: 87 employees currently; 44 in technical roles, 9 in product, 8 in marketing. Senior-heavy team (29 senior, 17 other management)
- **Active openings**: 6 positions including Senior AI/ML Engineer, Senior TestOps Engineer, Senior UI Engineer, Senior SDET, and Enterprise Account Executives

## Sources
1. [tigera.io](https://www.tigera.io/)
2. [tigera.io/about](https://www.tigera.io/about/)
3. [tigera.io/careers](https://www.tigera.io/careers/)
4. [LinkedIn - Tigera](https://www.linkedin.com/company/tigera)
5. [Workable - Tigera openings](https://apply.workable.com/tigera/?lng=en)

## Other roles at Tigera

- [Pre-Sales Solutions Architect – AI Agent & Workload Security](https://feeny.ai/job/pre-sales-solutions-architect-ai-agent-workload-security-tigera-cork-city-fmsfcry4tvrg) — Cork City, Ireland
- [Senior Field and Event Manager](https://feeny.ai/job/senior-field-and-event-manager-tigera-vancouver-hwz37kqwd6mn) — Vancouver, Canada
- [SDR Manager](https://feeny.ai/job/sdr-manager-tigera-vancouver-nga765tt4tmm) — Vancouver, Canada
- [ML Engineer](https://feeny.ai/job/ml-engineer-tigera-vancouver-cd0mp0wdha0t) — Vancouver, Canada
- [Senior SDET](https://feeny.ai/job/senior-sdet-tigera-vancouver-k80na5c9zjfk) — Vancouver, Canada
- [Principal Product Manager](https://feeny.ai/job/principal-product-manager-tigera-san-francisco-bay-area-hqc606evdzhe) — San Francisco Bay Area, United States