API Gateway Engineer - Secure, Scalable APIs

Element Fleet Corporation

San Francisco (CA)

On-site

USD 102,000 - 140,000

Full time

3 days ago

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Benefits offered by this job

Health and welfare benefits

Paid time off programs

Retirement savings plan

Tuition reimbursement

Job summary

Element Fleet Management is seeking a Software Engineer, API Gateway to design, implement, secure, and maintain our API gateway platform and API ecosystem. You will work with application development, cloud infrastructure, security, DevOps, and architecture teams to enable secure, scalable API services across internal, customer-facing, and partner integrations.

The role focuses on governance, reliability, developer enablement, and platform modernization, with collaboration across teams to drive

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.
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.