AI API Orchestrator & Integrations Engineer

TCWGlobal; San Diego (CA); On-site; USD 95,000 - 116,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Salary plus performance bonus

Job summary

TCWGlobal in San Diego seeks a Graph/API Agentic Engineer to own the API and integration layer of our AI-native platform. This hands-on role emphasizes reliability, security, documentation, and business value across APIs, integrations, and inline tools powering our products.

You will partner with security, engineering, and product teams to govern APIs, implement onboarding/offboarding standards, and enable developers with clear playbooks and reusable integrations.

Qualifications

• 4+ years of experience in API operations, integration management, or related technical roles.
• Strong knowledge of REST, GraphQL, webhooks, OAuth, rate limiting, API keys, and secure credential handling.
• Hands-on experience with API management or testing tools such as Postman, Kong, Apigee, or similar platforms.
• Experience with modern cloud/serverless platforms, CI/CD workflows, GitHub-based development, observability tools, and production incident response.
• Familiarity with AI/LLM APIs, model providers, agent tools, and AI-native workflow patterns is strongly preferred.
• Experience with Supabase, Vercel, Edge Functions, GitHub Actions, Lovable, or similar tools is a plus.
• Strong documentation discipline, systems thinking, vendor-management judgment, and cross-functional communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Own the full lifecycle of APIs, integrations, and inline tools, including discovery, evaluation, onboarding, configuration, renewal, replacement, and sunsetting.
• Maintain a centralized inventory of active APIs, vendors, credentials, environments, dependency maps, owners, versions, and deprecation timelines.
• Create and enforce API onboarding and offboarding standards that support speed, security, cost awareness, and product reliability.
• Partner with cross-functional teams to evaluate emerging APIs and tools that can unlock new AI agent capabilities or workflow improvements.
• Own operational standards for API key management, credential rotation, least-privilege access, secret handling, and environment readiness.
• Partner with security and engineering teams to review vulnerabilities, uptime risks, rate limits, capacity constraints, and failure modes across critical integrations.
• Support deployment of APIs and tools across modern cloud/serverless environments, CI/CD workflows, and product surfaces.
• Define monitoring and escalation practices for API failures, degraded performance, expired credentials, vendor incidents, and breaking changes.
• Helping with client integrations and building out an ecosystem of integration partners using AI tools and
• Build internal playbooks for API selection, onboarding, security review, observability, incident escalation, versioning, and deprecation.
• Maintain practical documentation that engineering, product, support, risk, and finance partners can use.
• Collaborate with cross-functional team members to make integrations reusable, resilient, and aligned with the AI ecosystem architecture.
• Help retire legacy integrations with minimal disruption and strong knowledge transfer.

Skills

API operations

Integration management

Platform engineering

Developer operations

REST & GraphQL

CI/CD workflows

Tools

Postman

Kong

Apigee

GitHub Actions

Supabase

Vercel

Edge Functions

Lovable

Job description

TCWGlobal in San Diego seeks a Graph/API Agentic Engineer to own the API and integration layer of our AI-native platform. This hands-on role emphasizes reliability, security, documentation, and business value across APIs, integrations, and inline tools powering our products.

You will partner with security, engineering, and product teams to govern APIs, implement onboarding/offboarding standards, and enable developers with clear playbooks and reusable integrations.