Gap

Principal Engineer, Agent Platform

Gap
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Dallas, TX, USA or Folsom, CA, USAStaff+
H1B sponsor

Responsibilities

  • Design and build core platform services for enterprise AI agent development and operations.
  • Define architecture, engineering patterns, and technical standards for the AI agent platform.
  • Develop and maintain a centralized model gateway for routing, governance, resiliency, and cost management.
  • Build agent runtime capabilities for long-running workflows, orchestration, and human-in-the-loop processes.
  • Design secure identity, authorization, and policy-enforcement mechanisms for agents and tools.
  • Establish capabilities for context management, memory, retrieval, and data isolation.
  • Create testing, evaluation, and release frameworks for agent quality, safety, and performance.
  • Implement observability, auditability, and operational tooling for monitoring and troubleshooting agent behavior.
  • Partner with Security, Data Governance, and Cloud Infrastructure teams on platform controls and guardrails.
  • Mentor engineers, influence technical direction, and raise engineering standards across multiple teams.

Requirements

  • Extensive experience building and operating large-scale distributed systems in production.
  • Strong software engineering background with expert-level Python development skills.
  • Hands-on experience delivering production LLM, generative AI, or agent-based solutions.
  • Deep understanding of agent architectures, orchestration patterns, and enterprise AI platforms.
  • Experience with retrieval systems, embeddings, vector search, and context management strategies.
  • Knowledge of AI evaluation, testing methodologies, and quality assurance for non-deterministic systems.
  • Proficiency with Google Cloud services including Vertex AI, Gemini, GKE, Cloud Run, BigQuery, and Pub/Sub.
  • Experience with cloud security, workload identity, OAuth, policy-as-code, and secure-by-design architectures.
  • Strong understanding of distributed-system reliability patterns, including resiliency, retries, observability, and fault tolerance.
  • Proven ability to influence technical direction, drive adoption of architectural standards, and lead through expertise rather than authority.

Tech Stack

Google BigQueryPython
Gap

About Gap

10,000+ employees

Gap Inc. is a public U.S. apparel retailer that operates the Gap, Old Navy, Banana Republic, and Athleta brands, selling clothing and accessories for men, women, and children. It generates revenue through company-operated and franchise stores and e-commerce across global markets. Founded in 1969 and headquartered in San Francisco, it trades on the NYSE.

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