API Gateway Engineer — Secure, Scalable API Platforms

CEI Fleet Collision and Safety; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 102,000 - 140,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Tuition reimbursement

Retirement savings plans

Paid time-off programs

Job summary

Element Fleet Management is hiring a Software Engineer, API Gateway to design, implement, and support API gateway platforms and security controls. You will partner with cybersecurity, DevOps, and architecture teams to enable secure, scalable API services for internal and customer-facing applications.

You will monitor performance, contribute to platform reliability, and drive automation using IaC and CI/CD pipelines, while providing technical guidance across teams and documenting standards.

Qualifications

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

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and support API gateway platforms and enterprise API gateway capabilities.
• Configure authentication, authorization, API key management, OAuth 2.0, OIDC, JWT, mTLS, rate limiting, and related security controls.
• Collaborate with Cybersecurity for remediation and compliance alignment.
• Monitor gateway availability, latency, throughput, and platform health; troubleshoot issues.
• Develop IaC for API gateway deployments using Terraform, CloudFormation, or similar; build CI/CD pipelines.
• Review API designs, mentor engineers, and support platform modernization.
• Maintain API documentation, standards, and operational procedures; evaluate new technologies.

Skills

API Management

RESTful APIs

OAuth 2.0

Cloud Platforms

Kubernetes

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/IT/Engineering

Tools

Kong

Apigee

Azure API Management

AWS API Gateway

MuleSoft

WSO2

Job description

Element Fleet Management is hiring a Software Engineer, API Gateway to design, implement, and support API gateway platforms and security controls. You will partner with cybersecurity, DevOps, and architecture teams to enable secure, scalable API services for internal and customer-facing applications.

You will monitor performance, contribute to platform reliability, and drive automation using IaC and CI/CD pipelines, while providing technical guidance across teams and documenting standards.