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Sr. Director of Engineering - API
Babel Street
Reston, USA
Director · 10+ years experience
Onsite
Discovered 3 days ago
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Key Skills for This Role
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Key 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
Required Qualifications
- 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
Preferred Qualifications
- Hands-on work with Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
- Familiarity with Vertex AI Agent Engine
- Background in ADK and reasoning frameworks such as LangChain
- Understanding of the Model Context Protocol (MCP)
- Exposure to data warehouse technologies like BigQuery and Snowflake
- Knowledge of Apigee or similar API gateway solutions
- Proven ability to design semantic APIs for AI or agent-driven use cases
- Experience managing context or building memory systems
- Development of agent-based architectures or orchestration frameworks
- Exposure to Anti-Gravity
- What Success Looks Like
- 30 Days
- Assess current API and platform architecture
- Define API and MCP platform strategy
- Identify early opportunities for standardization
- 60 Days
- Deliver initial platform frameworks and standards
- Begin rollout of semantic API patterns
- Establish MCP integration approach
- 90 Days
- Agent-ready APIs in production
- MCP-enabled services deployed
- Clear platform standards adopted across teams
- Measurable improvement in API consistency and developer velocity
- Benefits at Babel Street (just to name a few...)
- Health Benefits: Babel Street covers 85-100% monthly premium costs for Medical, Dental, Vision, Life & Disability insurances – for you and your family!
- Retirement Plans: Babel Street offers both a Traditional and Roth 401(K) with a very competitive match.
- Unlimited Flexible Leave: We trust our employees to manage their own time and balance their personal and work lives.
- Holidays: Babel Street provides employees with 12 paid Federal Holidays
- Tuition Reimbursement: We are committed to investing in our employees. One way we do that is with our Tuition Reimbursement Program for continuing education.
- Babel Street is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, color, religion, national origin, disability, protected Veteran status, age, or any other characteristic protected by law. Further, Babel Street will not discriminate against applicants for inquiring about, discussing or disclosing their pay or, in certain circumstances, the pay of their co‐worker, Pay Transparency Nondiscrimination. In addition, Babel Street's policy is to provide reasonable accommodation to qualified employees who have protected disabilities to the extent required by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances where a particular employee works. Upon request, we will provide you with more information about such accommodations.
- Range for this position based on qualifications and experience
- $220,000 — $240,000 USD
- Experience with cloud-native architectures (GCP preferred)
About Babel Street
Software300 employeesFounded 2009
AI-powered identity intelligence and risk operations software solutions.
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