Senior Engineer, Agentic Engineering Governance, Open Source

College Board – Technology – Platform Operations

Location: This is a remote role. Candidates who live near CB offices have the option of being fully remote or hybrid (Tuesday and Wednesday in office). All CB employees are required to occasionally travel to meet in person for business purposes.

Role Type: This is a full-time position

About the Team

The Platform Operations team at College Board builds solutions to help reimagine and elevate engineering practices around cloud infrastructure, architecture, networking, CI/CD, IaC, and developer experience. We operationalize the platforms that are core to our development environment within our growing AWS ecosystem. We also lead the organization’s approach to agentic and AI-assisted software development, helping engineering teams safely and effectively adopt AI coding agents and tools. Our team consists of engineers with a unique blend of skills and experiences that foster a collaborative working environment where each individual member contributes to the success of the team. We learn and teach. We are creative and value the merit of ideas.

About the Opportunity

As a Senior Engineer focused on Agentic Engineering Governance for Open Source software, you are an idea-generator, a catalyst, and a collaborator who sets the standard for how College Board engineers use AI coding agents and agentic development tools safely, responsibly, and effectively. You understand cloud software delivery, tools, and processes that empower efficient and resilient delivery, and you bring that same rigor to the guardrails, policies, and standards that govern how developers use AI coding assistants (such as Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, and similar agentic tools). You are technologically curious and seek opportunities to research emerging technologies and trends, standards, and products. Your eagerness and vision enable you to create and learn complex solutions.

Your focus will be on the fast-moving area of agentic governance for open-source software, where you build the program for license compliance, dependency risk, and review of the code we publish externally. You thrive in an environment with a strong mix of creativity and productivity, splitting your time between hands-on building and setting the standards others follow. You work closely with Security, Legal, and the developers who rely on us. Your excellent communication and mentoring skills allow you to effectively articulate solutions and policies to the team, enabling all to make healthy, well-governed contributions. The result is that the teams building for 7 million students each year can adopt AI with confidence.

In this role, you will:

Design & Implementation (60%)

• Design and implement guardrails, permission models, and policy-as-code controls that govern how AI coding agents (e.g., Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, and similar agentic tools) interact with source code, infrastructure, and production systems
• Build solutions using the best practices of Agile, CI/CD, and DevOps
• Build and maintain tooling for sandboxing, audit logging, and rollback of agent-driven code and infrastructure changes
• Continuously develop the skills required to work as part of the agile team in a poly-skilled development environment, including hands-on use of agentic coding tools
• Be a subject matter expert in current technological capabilities such as cloud networking, API integrations, infrastructure resiliency, cloud design, and agentic/AI-assisted development patterns
• Write code to automate the infrastructure lifecycle, create and support internal tools utilizing IaC, and be able to use CLIs
• Evaluate and pilot emerging agentic programming tools, frameworks, and protocols (e.g., MCP, agent orchestration frameworks), and make adoption recommendations
• Partner with domain SMEs (Delivery Team Software Engineers, Security, Infrastructure, Network, Observability and Operations) to analyze features, capabilities, and risks of agentic tooling
• Contribute to the development and growth of the Cloud Engineering Program, through thought leadership, design and implementation of tools and processes
• Participate in the Enterprise Architecture Review process, with a focus on proposals involving AI coding agents and agentic tooling

Governance & Strategy (25%)

• Establish and maintain organization-wide standards, guardrails, and acceptable-use policies for agentic and AI-assisted software development
• Partner with Security, L…