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)

Principal Engineer, API – MCP Platform

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