Software Engineer, Grok Connectors

About the Role

As a Product Engineer on the Grok Connectors team, you'll build integrations that enable Grok, Cursor, and Grok Bot to interact with everyday tools including:

• Gmail, Outlook, Google Calendar and Drive
• Microsoft Teams, OneDrive and SharePoint
• GitHub, Slack
• Finance accounts
• A marketplace of third-party MCP plugins

You will architect, implement, and deploy features end-to-end, covering:

• OAuth sign-in and token handling
• Tool schemas and reliability across millions of tool calls
• User-facing cards and approval flows on web, desktop, and mobile

You will work directly with enterprise customers and partners to ship connectors that large organizations can trust.

Key Responsibilities

• Build integrations for Grok, Cursor, and Grok Bot with various tools.
• Architect, implement, and deploy features end-to-end.
• Work with enterprise customers and partners.

Requirements & Tech Stack

• TypeScript
• Backend services and client UI development
• OAuth 2.0 and OIDC
• Large provider APIs like Google Workspace and Microsoft Graph
• Reliability concepts: concurrency, retries, rate limits, observability
• Data-driven decision making: sizing user impact from logs and metrics, measuring error rates
• Customer, partner, QA, and support interaction

Bonus Experience

• MCP protocol
• Rust
• Kubernetes and multi-cloud deployments
• Enterprise security and compliance (ZDR, audit logs, Conditional Access)
• Building LLM agents for automation

Qualifications

• Entrepreneurial spirit and drive for business impact.
• Desire for AI agents to be genuinely useful and connect to real data/actions safely.
• Deep, practical knowledge of OAuth 2.0 and OIDC, and APIs like Google Workspace and Microsoft Graph, or eagerness to become an expert.
• Strong understanding of reliability principles (concurrency, retries, rate limits, observability) and fixing root causes.
• Ability to use data to guide work, size user impact, and measure error rates.
• Proficiency in TypeScript and comfort shipping across backend services and client UI in a large codebase.
• Experience collaborating with customers, partners, QA, and support.
• Ability to clearly answer security review questions and fix bugs.

Sample Projects

• Building an automated triage system for user reports.
• Redesigning OAuth token refresh mechanisms to prevent token burnout.
• Reducing tool-call errors by generating tool definitions from API specs.
• Shipping Gmail and Outlook draft, reply, and attachment flows with user approval cards.
• Launching new partner connectors, including OAuth debugging and adoption metrics.
• Enabling connectors for enterprise and single-tenant deployments (custom CAs, Entra Conditional Access, admin controls).