Principal Engineer, API & MCP Platform
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Babel StreetAI and Data Analytics
This is a hybrid role working out of either our Reston, VA or Somerville, MA office. Full remote may be considered.Full-TimePrincipal
Salary220,000 - 250,000 USD per year
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Job Details
- Experience
- 10+ years
- Required Skills
- GCPSnowflakeBigQueryLangChainDistributed Systems
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
Responsibilities
- Partner closely with Architecture to define and 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
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