# Staff Engineer, Applied AI at Match Group

- Company: Match Group
- Company website: https://www.match.com
- Type: Startups (AI role)
- Level: Senior
- Location: Palo Alto, California
- Work setup: On-site
- Pay: $225K to $265K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-11-05
- Apply by: 2026-12-20
- Apply: https://jobs.lever.co/matchgroup/a658764a-1f7a-4c59-80f2-d922a46b8ba9?utm_source=1752vc&utm_medium=careers
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/match-group-staff-engineer-applied-ai/

## About the role

Work closely with internal teams to build real solutions for challenges they are facing day to day. Own the design of the agent platform across gateway, connectors, identity, policy, guardrails, observability and cost, and write the roadmap for how it evolves. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.

## What they're looking for

- Great communication and collaboration skills, experience working with real challenges of customer
- 8+ years building backend, infrastructure or platform systems that other teams depend on, with recent hands-on work on LLM agents, tool use or MCP
- Experience shipping identity or authorization systems: OAuth 2.0 and OIDC, token exchange or delegation, service identity, and policy models (RBAC, ABAC or relationship-based)
- An attacker's mindset about agent systems, and the ability to explain why prompt-level defenses aren't enough
- Experience operating gateways, proxies or other services in the critical request path, including on-call, observability and incident response
- Strong skills in Python or TypeScript, and daily use of AI coding tools with a clear sense of where they fail

Tags: Engineering

Source: 1752vc Careers, https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/match-group-staff-engineer-applied-ai/