API Gateway Engineer - Build Secure, Scalable APIs

elementfleet; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 102,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

Elementfleet is seeking a Software Engineer, API Gateway to design, implement, secure, and maintain its API gateway platform and API management ecosystem. You’ll work with development, cloud, security, DevOps, and architecture teams to enable secure, scalable API services across internal apps, customer products, and third-party integrations.

You will drive governance, reliability, developer enablement, and platform modernization while contributing to architecture reviews and technical guidance

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or related field.
• 2-3+ years of experience in API management, middleware, integration engineering, platform engineering, or related disciplines.
• Hands-on experience administering enterprise API gateway platforms such as Kong, Apigee, Azure API Management, AWS API Gateway, IBM API Connect, MuleSoft, WSO2, or similar technologies.
• Strong experience with RESTful APIs, GraphQL, JSON, XML, and microservices architecture.
• Experience implementing OAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect (OIDC), JWT, mutual TLS (mTLS), API security controls, and identity management practices.
• Experience with cloud platforms such as AWS, Microsoft Azure, or Google Cloud Platform.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and support API gateway platforms with routing, load balancing, caching, policy enforcement, API publishing, versioning, and lifecycle management.
• Implement API security controls including authentication/authorization, API keys, OAuth 2.0, OIDC, JWT, and mTLS; collaborate on security standards.
• Monitor availability, latency, throughput, and platform health; troubleshoot incidents and optimize scalability and reliability.
• Develop automation and DevOps capabilities; build IaC for deployments using Terraform, CloudFormation; create CI/CD pipelines.
• Collaborate with architects and dev teams to design API integration solutions and provide technical guidance.
• Maintain technical documentation, API standards, and operational procedures.
• Evaluate emerging API management technologies and improve developer experience and platform efficiency.

Skills

API management

Middleware

Platform engineering

RESTful APIs

GraphQL

OAuth 2.0

OIDC

JWT

mTLS

Cloud platforms

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science/Engineering/IT

Tools

Kong

Apigee

Azure API Management

AWS API Gateway

IBM API Connect

MuleSoft

WSO2

Job description

Elementfleet is seeking a Software Engineer, API Gateway to design, implement, secure, and maintain its API gateway platform and API management ecosystem. You’ll work with development, cloud, security, DevOps, and architecture teams to enable secure, scalable API services across internal apps, customer products, and third-party integrations.

You will drive governance, reliability, developer enablement, and platform modernization while contributing to architecture reviews and technical guidance