Principal Engineer, API – MCP Platform

hatch I.T.

Principal Engineer responsible for defining and delivering API-first platform capabilities. Leading Babel Street’s API and MCP platform strategy and fostering robust technological solutions.

Posted 4/24/2026full-timeReston • Massachusetts, Virginia • 🇺🇸 United StatesLead💰 $220,000 - $250,000 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

BabelBigQueryCloudDistributed SystemsGoogle Cloud Platform

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Lead Babel Street’s API and MCP platform strategy
Design and deliver semantic, agent-ready APIs
Establish MCP standards and implementation patterns
Define context management patterns for agent workflows
Partner with AI and Data teams to enable agent-native architectures
Establish API governance and platform standards
Build foundational frameworks and reusable components
Provide hands-on technical leadership and mentorship
Partner with Google and other vendors on platform capabilities
Drive adoption of API and MCP standards across engineering teams

Requirements

What you’ll need

10+ years of software engineering experience
Experience operating at Principal Engineer or Staff+ level
Strong hands-on experience building distributed systems
Experience designing and building API-first platforms
Experience with cloud-native architectures (GCP preferred)
Experience building developer platforms or service-oriented architectures
Strong system design and architectural thinking skills
Proven ability to lead cross-team technical initiatives
Hands-on work with Google Cloud Platform (GCP) (preferred)
Familiarity with Vertex AI Agent Engine (preferred)
Background in ADK and reasoning frameworks such as LangChain (preferred)
Understanding of the Model Context Protocol (MCP) (preferred)
Exposure to data warehouse technologies like BigQuery and Snowflake (preferred)
Knowledge of Apigee or similar API gateway solutions (preferred)
Proven ability to design semantic APIs for AI or agent-driven use cases (preferred)
Experience managing context or building memory systems (preferred)
Development of agent-based architectures or orchestration frameworks (preferred)
Exposure to Anti-Gravity (preferred)

Benefits

Comp & perks

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Lead Babel Street’s API and MCP platform strategy
Design and deliver semantic, agent-ready APIs
Establish MCP standards and implementation patterns
Define context management patterns for agent workflows
Partner with AI and Data teams to enable agent-native architectures
Establish API governance and platform standards
Build foundational frameworks and reusable components
Provide hands-on technical leadership and mentorship
Partner with Google and other vendors on platform capabilities
Drive adoption of API and MCP standards across engineering teams 🎯 Requirements
10+ years of software engineering experience
Experience operating at Principal Engineer or Staff+ level
Strong hands-on experience building distributed systems
Experience designing and building API-first platforms
Experience with cloud-native architectures (GCP preferred)
Experience building developer platforms or service-oriented architectures
Strong system design and architectural thinking skills
Proven ability to lead cross-team technical initiatives
Hands-on work with Google Cloud Platform (GCP) (preferred)
Familiarity with Vertex AI Agent Engine (preferred)
Background in ADK and reasoning frameworks such as LangChain (preferred)
Understanding of the Model Context Protocol (MCP) (preferred)
Exposure to data warehouse technologies like BigQuery and Snowflake (preferred)
Knowledge of Apigee or similar API gateway solutions (preferred)
Proven ability to design semantic APIs for AI or agent-driven use cases (preferred)
Experience managing context or building memory systems (preferred)
Development of agent-based architectures or orchestration frameworks (preferred)
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Hard Skills & Tools

API designdistributed systemscloud-native architecturesAPI-first platformssystem designarchitectural thinkingsemantic APIscontext managementagent-based architecturesorchestration frameworks

Soft Skills

technical leadershipmentorshipcross-team collaborationinitiative driving