Principal Software Engineer - Agent & App Platform

Role overview

Principal Software Engineer - Agent & App Platform at Atlan

Responsibilities

• You’ll work across areas such as: Agent Registry & Gateways: Systems for registering, discovering, authenticating, governing, and routing agents, tools, and MCP servers.
• Build the primitives that power agent execution and lifecycle — including templates, marketplace experiences, secure sandboxing, tenant-aware context, durable sessions, checkpointing, and observability.
• You’ll thrive here if you take strong ownership, enjoy ambiguous technical problems, communicate clearly, learn quickly, and care about building reusable primitives, reliable systems, and great developer experiences.

Employment details

• Compensation: We benchmark at the top of the market and keep compensation simple: strong base salary, performance‑based variable pay, and impact‑driven equity (for most roles), so your total rewards grow in step with the value you create over time.
• AI Native Culture: Atlan is where AI-native builders come to build the systems the future of work will run on.
• AI isn’t an add-on, it’s woven into how we build, think, and work every day, empowering every Atlanian to move faster and create a bigger impact.
• Health & Wellness : From Day‑1 health, dental, vision, and mental health to flexible health stipends, we design benefits offerings that lead in each country we're in.
• Flexible Time Off & Leave Policies: We trust you to own your energy: flexible time off and modern leave so you can unplug properly, support yourself and your loved ones, and come back ready to drive an impact.
• Accelerated Growth & Learning: Develop at an uncommon velocity through cutting-edge tech, complex implementations, and an experienced team that values mastery.
• Global, Remote-First, High-Trust: Work from anywhere with a diverse team across 15+ countries, in a trust-first, async environment that gives you true flexibility and ownership over how you work.
• More About Us Atlan is building the shared context layer that enterprises need so AI can operate on trusted, governed context.
• The conversation has moved from data leaders asking: “Can we trust the data in our stack?” to businesses asking: “Can we trust AI inside the business?” We are the missing infrastructure for businesses becoming AI-forward - the connective tissue between their data stack, operational systems, and AI agents.
• To learn more, visit www.atlan.com and follow us on LinkedIn.
• Equal Opportunity Employer Atlan is committed to building an inclusive, diverse, and authentic workplace.
• We do not discriminate based on race, color, religion, national origin, age, disability, sex, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, marital status, military or veteran status, or any other legally protected characteristic.
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• Location: India

About the employer

• Who We Are Atlan is building the context layer for enterprise AI.
• Gartner has named context the defining issue in enterprise AI, and calls context graphs the essential infrastructure for AI agents, naming Atlan one of three vendors already building it.
• The Team The Agent & App Platform team builds the foundations that allow Atlan teams, partners, and customers to build, run, distribute, observe, and govern apps and agents reliably at scale .
• Evolve Atlan’s workflow and runtime infrastructure using Temporal, Kubernetes, and cloud-native technologies, while improving reliability, scalability, performance, and cost.
• Why Atlan?

Additional role details

• Enterprises are pouring money into AI and most of it dies in production because the AI does not understand the business context around the data.
• That is the problem Atlan solves.
• We are also the only vendor named a Leader across all four major Gartner and Forrester evaluations for data catalogs, data governance and metadata management, the foundation the context layer runs on.
• Come build the infrastructure that AI runs on.
• Atlan is evolving from a world of apps to a world where apps and AI agents work together .
• The Agent & App Platform team is building the foundational infrastructure that makes this possible.
• We’re looking for a Principal Software Engineer to help set the technical direction for the agent registry and gateway platform.
• Agent Platform: Shared capabilities for agent execution, including identity, context, secure execution, sessions, checkpointing, and observability.
• App Runtime: Reliable execution infrastructure built on Kubernetes and Temporal.
• Distribution & Automation: Packaging, deployment, marketplace experiences, workflows, triggers, templates, and automation capabilities.
• What You’ll Do You’ll own significant technical problems end-to-end and help build the platform primitives powering Atlan’s next generation of apps and agents.
• Depending on your strengths and interests, you may: Design and build platform services for agents, tools, and MCP servers , including registries, gateways, authentication, authorization, routing, policy enforcement, audit logging, and tracing.
• Design and operate multi-tenant distributed systems for enterprise workloads at significant scale, solving complex problems around isolation, failure recovery, capacity, and noisy neighbours.
• Partner with Product and Engineering teams on how apps and agents come together across registration, distribution, and runtime , and contribute to architecture, RFCs, and technical standards.
• Mentor engineers and raise the technical bar through strong engineering practices, design reviews, and technical leadership.
• What We’re Looking For 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, service communication, orchestration, retries, idempotency, and failure recovery.
• Strong Kubernetes, containerization, and cloud infrastructure experience across AWS and/or GCP.
• Experience designing systems with clear reliability, latency, capacity, and cost requirements, across both 0→1 and mature production environments.
• Ability to work autonomously on ambiguous, cross-functional technical problems and communicate complex trade-offs clearly.
• It’s a Plus If You Have 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.
• How We Work We’re building an AI-native engineering organization and use AI-assisted development tools such as Claude and Cursor as part of our everyday workflow.
• The Technology Go
• Python
• AWS
• GCP
• Kubernetes
• Karpenter
• Temporal
• MCP
• Terraform
• Helm
• Prometheus
• Grafana
• GitOps You don’t need experience with every technology listed above.
• We care more about strong engineering fundamentals, distributed-systems expertise, and the ability to learn quickly.
• Joining Atlan means being part of a global movement to help data teams do their life’s best work.
• Here’s what you can expect: Competitive