API Gateway Engineer: Platform & Security

Element Fleet Management

San Francisco (CA)

On-site

USD 102,000 - 140,000

Full time

14 days+

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Job summary

Element Fleet Management is seeking a Software Engineer, API Gateway to design, implement, secure, and maintain the organization's API gateway platform and management ecosystem for internal and customer-facing services.

You will partner with application teams, cloud security, DevOps, and architecture to ensure reliable, scalable APIs, contribute to governance, and drive platform modernization with IaC and CI/CD pipelines.

Qualifications

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related field; equivalent combination of education, training, and experience may be considered.
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. Configure and maintain enterprise API gateway capabilities, including routing, traffic management, load balancing, caching, policy enforcement, API publishing, versioning, and lifecycle management to provide secure, scalable, and reliable API services.
Implement API security and governance controls. Configure and maintain authentication, authorization, API key management, OAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect (OIDC), JWT, mutual TLS (mTLS), rate limiting, throttling, and related API security controls. Partner with Cybersecurity teams to support vulnerability remediation, compliance initiatives, and alignment with organizational security standards.
Support platform operations and performance. Monitor API gateway availability, latency, throughput, utilization, and platform health. Troubleshoot production issues, perform root cause analysis, participate in incident response, and optimize gateway scalability, resilience, and operational performance.
Develop automation and DevOps capabilities. Build and maintain Infrastructure as Code (IaC) for API gateway deployments using Terraform, CloudFormation, or similar tools. Develop CI/CD pipelines to automate deployment, configuration management, monitoring, logging, alerting, and operational tasks to improve consistency and reduce manual effort.
Collaborate on architecture and provide technical guidance. Partner with Solution Architects, application development teams, cloud infrastructure, DevOps, and Security teams to design API integration solutions aligned with enterprise standards. Review API designs, contribute to architecture discussions, mentor junior engineers, and support platform modernization initiatives.
Maintain documentation and drive continuous improvement. Develop and maintain technical documentation, API standards, operational procedures, and implementation guidance.
Evaluate emerging API management technologies, recommend improvements, and contribute to better developer experience, operational efficiency, and platform reliability.