Technical Engineer - API Gateway

Meta Infotech Ltd.; Mumbai; Hybrid; INR 1,200,000 - 2,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Meta Infotech Ltd. is seeking an experienced API Gateway Engineer in Mumbai to design, implement, and manage API Gateway platforms such as Kong and Apigee. You will develop and maintain security plugins and integrate APIs with authentication, authorization, and monitoring tooling.

You will collaborate with application teams to gather requirements, onboard APIs, and ensure platform stability, scalability, and observability across Elasticsearch/OpenSearch, Splunk, and Prometheus stacks.

Qualifications

• Strong understanding of REST APIs, HTTP, JSON, OpenAPI/Swagger.
• Hands-on experience with API Gateway platforms and related tooling.
• API security standards including OAuth 2.0, JWT, mTLS are required.
• Experience with rate limiting, caching, and traffic shaping.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and manage API Gateway platforms.
• Collaborate with application teams to gather requirements and integrate APIs.
• Develop and maintain custom plugins for authentication, authorization, and transformations.
• Implement and manage security controls (OAuth 2.0, JWT, mTLS).
• Monitor API performance, availability, and usage metrics with observability stacks.

Skills

REST APIs

HTTP/JSON

OpenAPI/Swagger

API security

Rate limiting

Caching

Cloud platforms

Scripting/automation

Monitoring

Logging

Tools

Kong

Apigee

AWS API Gateway

Azure API Management

Mulesoft

Lua

Python

Java

Elasticsearch/OpenSearch

Splunk

Prometheus

ELK

Terraform

Job description

Role & responsibilities

• Design, implement, and manage API Gateway platforms(e.g., Apigee, Kong, AWS API Gateway, Azure API Management, Mulesoft)
• Collaborate with the application teamto gather requirements, define plugin functionality, and integrate APIs.
• Develop and maintain custom plugins(Authentication & authorization, Transformations, Security plugins) for API Gateway platforms (e.g., Kong, Apigee, or similar) using Lua, Python, and Java.
• Implement and manage security controls such as:
• Authentication & authorization(OAuth 2.0, JWT, mTLS)
• Rate limiting, throttling, IP filtering
• Security plugins(Bot detection, IP restriction, JSON Threat Protection)
• Develop and maintain shared gateway policies(logging, caching, transformation)
• Support application teams with onboarding, troubleshooting, and optimization
• Integrate Kong API Gateway with observability and analytics platforms like Elasticsearch/OpenSearch, Splunk, and Prometheus to enable centralized API monitoring and logging.
• Monitor API performance, availability, and usage metrics
• Enabled real-time API traffic indexing into Elasticsearch or similar toolfor monitoring, troubleshooting, and audit purposes.
• Integrated API Gateway logs and metrics with Elasticsearch-based observability stacks(ELK).
• Integrate API gateways with CI/CD pipelines
• Act as an escalation point for API gateway issues

Required Skills

Technical

• Strong understanding of REST APIs, HTTP, JSON, OpenAPI/Swagger
• Hands-on experience with API Gateway platforms
• API security standards (OAuth 2.0, OIDC, JWT, mTLS)
• Experience with rate limiting, caching, traffic shaping
• Knowledge of cloud platforms(AWS, Azure, GCP)
• Scripting / automation (Python, Bash, Terraform)
• Monitoring & logging tools (Prometheus, Splunk, ELK)

Functional

• API onboarding
• API availability and latency
• Security incidents related to APIs
• Platform stability and scalability
• Cross-team collaboration
• Incident management & troubleshooting
• Documentation and knowledge sharing