Principal Platform Engineer, Agents & Apps Platform

Openkrill; United States; Remote; USD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive compensation

AI native culture

Health & Wellness

Flexible time off

Remote-first

Job summary

Atlan is building the shared context layer that enables enterprise AI to operate on trusted, governed data. We’re seeking a Principal Software Engineer to guide the agent registry and gateway platform at scale and across global teams.

You will own end-to-end technical problems, design platform primitives, and mentor engineers to raise the bar for reliability, observability, and performance in a remote‑first, globally distributed environment.

Qualifications

• 14+ years of experience in platform engineering, infrastructure, or backend systems, ideally in a SaaS environment.
• Strong 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 and reliability concerns.

Responsibilities

• Design and build platform services for agents, tools, and MCP servers, including registries, gateways, authentication, authorization, routing, policy enforcement, audit logging, and tracing.
• Evolve workflow and runtime infrastructure using Temporal, Kubernetes, and cloud-native technologies to improve reliability, scalability, and cost.
• Collaborate with product and engineering teams on architecture, RFCs, and technical standards.
• Mentor engineers and raise technical bar through reviews and leadership.
• Operate multi-tenant distributed systems for enterprise workloads at scale, solving isolation and capacity challenges.

Skills

Kubernetes

Distributed systems

Backend engineering

Cloud infrastructure

Tools

Temporal

Terraform

Helm

GitOps

Karpenter

Prometheus

Grafana

Job description

Atlan is building the shared context layer that enables enterprise AI to operate on trusted, governed data. We’re seeking a Principal Software Engineer to guide the agent registry and gateway platform at scale and across global teams.

You will own end-to-end technical problems, design platform primitives, and mentor engineers to raise the bar for reliability, observability, and performance in a remote‑first, globally distributed environment.