API Gateway Architect

Seeking an API Gateway Architect to lead the design, implementation, and evolution of a highly scalable, secure, and observable API gateway platform supporting enterprise-scale and business-critical services. This role is ideal for a technically deep engineer who combines strong hands-on API and gateway development experience with the ability to influence architecture, standards, and best practices across teams.
The Senior API Gateway Engineer will be responsible for defining and enforcing API design standards, implementing gateway-level capabilities such as routing, transformation, traffic management, authentication, and policy enforcement, and ensuring APIs are reliable, performant, and secure by default. You will partner closely with application teams, platform engineering, SRE, and security to enable rapid delivery while maintaining strong governance and operational excellence.
This role requires advanced expertise in troubleshooting complex issues in large-scale, distributed production environments, supported by strong capabilities in observability and telemetry. The ideal candidate proactively identifies systemic issues, drives automation using Python, and continuously improves operational resiliency.
Strong Java expertise is highly desired, particularly in API, gateway, or middleware development, along with deep experience in automated API testing strategies and tools. As a senior engineer, you will also mentor other engineers, contribute to architectural decisions, and help shape the future direction of the API platform.
8+ years of overall software or platform engineering experience

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Required Skills & Experience

8+ years of overall software or platform engineering experience
5+ years of hands-on experience designing, building, and operating API platforms or API gateway solutions in production environments
Deep expertise in API design and development, including RESTful APIs, versioning strategies, backward compatibility, and error-handling patterns
Strong experience implementing authentication and authorization mechanisms such as OAuth2, OpenID Connect, JWT, mTLS, and API key-based security
Proven ability to troubleshoot and resolve complex production issues in high-throughput, distributed systems
Advanced proficiency in Java, particularly in API, gateway, or service-oriented architectures
Strong experience using Python to build automation, tooling, and operational workflows
Hands-on experience designing and implementing automated API testing frameworks, including functional, integration, regression, and performance testing


Benefit packages for this role will start on the 1st day of employment and include medical, dental, and vision insurance, as well as HSA, FSA, and DCFSA account options, and 401k retirement account access with employer matching. Employees in this role are also entitled to paid sick leave and/or other paid time off as provided by applicable law.