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Atlan is hiring a Principal Software Engineer to set technical direction for its agent registry and gateway platform. The role owns significant platform problems end-to-end, including services for agents, tools, and MCP servers; agent execution and lifecycle primitives; workflow and runtime infrastructure; multi-tenant distributed systems; and technical leadership. The position requires 14+ years of experience in platform engineering, infrastructure, or backend systems, along with expertise in distributed systems, Kubernetes, cloud infrastructure, and reliability. It is remote-first and offers health, dental, vision, and mental health benefits.

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Platform services
API gateways
Service registries
Distributed systems
Kubernetes
Temporal
AWS
GCP
MCP
Terraform

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Required Previous Experiences: 14+ years of experience in platform engineering, infrastructure, or backend systems, ideally in a SaaS environment
Experience building platform services, API gateways, service registries, control planes, or similar systems
Deep expertise in distributed systems and multi-tenant architectures, including event-driven systems, service communication, orchestration, retries, idempotency, and failure recovery
Strong Kubernetes, containerization, and cloud infrastructure experience across AWS and/or GCP
Experience designing systems with reliability, latency, capacity, and cost requirements across 0→1 and mature production environments
Preferred Qualifications: Experience with MCP, A2A, agent frameworks, agent runtimes, LLM gateways, or agent observability
Experience building marketplaces, plugin ecosystems, extension platforms, developer platforms, or workflow/automation systems
Experience with identity and authorization for non-human actors, secure sandboxing, context propagation, or multi-tenant agent execution
Experience with Temporal, Terraform, Helm, GitOps, CI/CD, or container registries
Experience operating enterprise-scale production systems with demanding SLOs, observability, distributed tracing, or cost attribution
Translation Company Name: Atlan

About Atlan

Atlan

Metadata management

Atlan is the context layer for enterprise AI. It continuously reads your warehouses, databases, pipelines, BI tools, and business systems to reverse construct an enterprise data graph that captures assets, lineage, entities, metrics, policies, and relationships. On top of that graph, it enriches and curates machine-readable semantics — descriptions, popular joins, KPI and metric definitions, ontologies, and business rules — and organizes them into governed, versioned context repos: bounded bundles of context that reflect how your company defines key concepts and makes decisions. These context repos are then exposed through open interfaces (SQL, APIs, SDKs, OSI/MCP-style protocols) so that agents, copilots, and AI applications can call the same trusted context in real time, rather than each team hard-coding its own logic. Human-on-the-loop governance workflows for conflict resolution, deprecation, feedback, and certification keep that context trustworthy as the business, data, and models evolve.

Founded: 2019

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General Motors
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