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San Francisco, California, United States
Hybrid
Nextdoor (NYSE: NXDR) is the essential neighborhood network. Neighbors, public agencies, and businesses use Nextdoor to connect around local information that matters in more than 350,000 neighborhoods across 11 countries. Nextdoor builds innovative technology to foster local community, share important news, and create neighborhood connections at scale. Download the app and join the neighborhood at nextdoor.com.
As a Client Platform Engineer, you will connect IT and Engineering for AI tools and automation at Nextdoor. As more teams start using AI agents, assistants, and connectors, you will manage the IT platforms that keep these tools safe and scalable. This includes handling identity and access for non-human and user-delegated agent identities in Okta, overseeing governance and reviews for new agents and MCP connectors, tracking usage and adoption, and managing costs and licenses to keep our AI use sustainable. You will work with teams in Business Technology, Engineering, Security, and Finance to create processes that help teams launch AI tools quickly while following IT guidelines. Your work will help make AI a valuable resource across the company.
At Nextdoor, we operate in an AI-first environment and expect every team member to actively use AI tools as part of their workflow. We aren't looking for prompt engineers; we’re looking for people who use tools like Claude, Gemini, ChatGPT, and Glean to challenge their own thinking and take full ownership of AI-assisted outputs.
We also offer a warm and inclusive work environment that embraces a hybrid employment model, blending an in office presence and work from home experience for our valued employees. The hiring team will go over these expectations with you if you are being considered for a role near one of our offices in San Francisco, Los Angeles, Chicago, Dallas, New York, and London.
If you have experience making IT platforms reliable, secure, and easy to use, and you want to apply those skills to AI tools across the business, this role could be a great fit. You will set the standards for how every AI agent at Nextdoor authenticates, what it can access, what it costs, and how teams are alerted if issues arise. You will be responsible for the standards, review processes, and monitoring that turn one-off AI projects into a dependable platform for the company.
Your responsibilities will include:
Preferred Qualifications
Bonus Points
Compensation, benefits, perks, and recognition programs at Nextdoor come together to create our total rewards package. Compensation will vary depending on your relevant skills, experience, and qualifications.
The starting salary for this role is expected to range from $140,000-$150,000 on an annualized basis, or potentially greater in the event that your 'level' of proficiency exceeds the level expected for the role. The salary range will be determined by the candidate’s geographic location.
We expect to award a meaningful equity grant for this role. With quarterly vesting, your first vest date will take place within 3 months of your start date.
When it comes to benefits, we have you covered! Nextdoor employees can choose between a variety of health plans, including a 100% covered employee only plan option, and we also provide a OneMedical membership for concierge care.
At Nextdoor, we empower our employees to build stronger local communities. To create a platform where all feel welcome, we want our workforce to reflect the diversity of the neighbors we serve. We encourage everyone interested in our mission to apply. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, gender, religion, sexual orientation, age, or any other trait that unfairly targets a group of people. In accordance with the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we always consider qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.
For information about our collection and use of applicants’ personal information, please see Nextdoor's Personnel Privacy Notice, found here.