API Gateway Engineer

Job Title: API Gateway Engineer

Location: Bellevue, WA / Atlanta, GA

Duration: / Term: 6+ months

Job Description:

Experience Desired: 8+ Years.

Key required skills

• The Senior Engineer API Gateway & Production Support is responsible for deploying, managing, and optimizing API gateway solutions, as well as ensuring reliable production operations for business-critical applications.
• This role works closely with development, operations, and security teams to deliver robust APIs and maintain high service availability.
• Responsibilities: API Gateway configuration and support for enterprise applications
• Design, implement, and maintain API gateway configurations (e.g., Apigee, Kong, AWS API Gateway, etc.).
• Build secure, scalable, and highly available API infrastructure.
• Implement policies for authentication, authorization, rate limiting, caching, and monitoring. - Collaborate with development teams on API lifecycle management, onboarding, and documentation.
• Troubleshoot performance issues and optimize API traffic handling.
• Troubleshoot production issues related to API connectivity and latency.
• Provide L2/L3 support for API gateways and related production environments.
• Monitor health, performance, and capacity of production systems.
• Diagnose and resolve incidents, ensuring rapid response and clear communication.
• Conduct root cause analysis and implement permanent fixes.
• Coordinate deployments, patches, and upgrades with minimal downtime.
• Develop and maintain runbooks, knowledge base articles, and standard operating procedures. Security & Compliance: Implement API security best practices and ensure compliance with organizational policies. Schedule regular security reviews, vulnerability assessments, and audits.
• Stakeholder Collaboration: - Communicate effectively with internal teams (Dev, QA, Security, Infra) and external partners. - Participate in architectural reviews and production readiness assessments.

Skills: -

• Bachelor s or Master s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related discipline.
• 5+ years of experience in API gateway technologies and production support.
• Strong expertise in API design, management, and security (REST, OAuth2, JWT, etc.).
• Hands-on experience with one or more API gateways: Apigee, Kong, AWS API Gateway, Azure API Management, etc.
• Expert in troubleshooting production incidents in cloud or on-prem environments.
• Proficiency with automation tools (Python, Shell, Ansible, Jenkins, etc.).
• Experience with monitoring and logging solutions (Datadog, ELK, Prometheus, Grafana).
• Strong understanding of network protocols, firewalls, load balancers, and DNS.
• Excellent problem-solving, analytical, and communication skills.
• Familiarity with CI/CD and DevOps practices.

Key Skills:

API Architecture, API Gateway, Apigee, kong, DevOps, Python, Java