Atlassian
Principal Technical Program Manager- Agent Quality and API Governance
$170K–$267K
Seattle, United States +2 · Principal · Full-time · Posted Oct 28, 2026
- Location
- Seattle, United States
Remote, Remote
Mountain View, United States or Remote - Experience
- 8–10+ years; the posting does not state alternatives.
About the job
Leads technical strategy and cross-functional programs for agent integrations, quality measurement and observability, and API governance and runtime controls.
What you'll do
- Standardize agent tool integrations and coordinate authentication, permissions, onboarding, and lifecycle management.
- Define agent quality measures, evaluation benchmarks, regression practices, and observability with engineering teams.
- Lead API governance, monetization, rate limits, quotas, resilience safeguards, and cross-functional roadmaps.
What they ask for
- 8–10+ years of experience in Technical Program Management, Platform Product Management, software engineering, or a related technical discipline.
- Experience delivering API platforms, distributed backend systems, developer ecosystems, automation platforms, or AI/ML integrations.
- Strong understanding of API architecture, distributed rate limiting, quotas, concurrency controls, resilience patterns, and API lifecycle governance.
- Working knowledge of agent execution, function calling, tool binding, action schemas, and integration protocols; understanding of agent quality measurement.
Nice to have
- Experience with standardized AI agents, agentic workflows, and agent-tool protocols such as Model Context Protocol - MCP or OpenAPI-based tool ecosystems.
- Familiarity with offline LLM evaluation harnesses, synthetic benchmarking, red-teaming, or agent observability and distributed tracing.
Pay
$204,300 - $266,725 USD base salary; $183,870 - $240,053 USD base salary; $169,569 - $221,382 USD base salary
Tools
Model Context Protocol - MCP, OpenAPI, OpenTelemetry, AWS, GCP, Azure
AI focus
Drives agent integrations and tool use, quality evaluation and observability, and safeguards and governance for agent and automation traffic.
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