Senior API & AI Platform Engineer — Gateway & Cloud-Native

U.S. Bank; Chicago (IL); Hybrid; USD 127,000 - 149,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare (medical, dental, vision)

Life insurance

Disability insurance

Paid vacation

401(k)

Paid holidays

Adoption assistance

Sick leave

Job summary

U.S. Bank is seeking a senior engineer to lead Enterprise API Solution Engineering, building the API, AI, and gateway platforms across hybrid and multi-cloud environments. You will drive secure, scalable integrations and governance to empower enterprise domains.

You will architect API gateways (Apigee, AWS API Gateway, Azure API Management), implement IaC and CI/CD, and mentor teams while maintaining strong security postures and reliable delivery.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent work experience.
• Six to eight years of relevant experience.

Responsibilities

• Lead the design, engineering, and operation of scalable API, AI, and cloud-native platform solutions supporting enterprise business domains.
• Architect and manage enterprise API gateway platforms including Apigee, AWS API Gateway, and Azure API Management.
• Develop and maintain API proxies, shared flows, gateway policies, and GraphQL services to enable secure, high-performance integrations.
• Build and enhance Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform) and automation frameworks to support platform provisioning, governance, and lifecycle management.
• Implement and maintain CI/CD pipelines and self-service deployment capabilities that improve developer productivity and platform adoption.
• Drive security, compliance, and governance standards, including OAuth 2.0, JWT, mTLS, RBAC, audit logging, and policy-as-code controls.
• Design resilient multi-cloud networking and connectivity solutions, including private endpoints, load balancing, disaster recovery, and traffic management.
• Provide technical leadership, mentorship, incident management, and cross-functional collaboration with Cloud, Security, IAM, Networking, and FinOps teams.

Skills

Platform Engineering

API Gateway Engineering

Cloud Infrastructure

Apigee Hybrid/OPDK

API Security

Kubernetes

Infrastructure as Code

CI/CD

SRE/Observability

IAM & Azure AD

Education

Bachelor’s degree, or equivalent work experience

Tools

Apigee Hybrid/OPDK

Terraform

Helm

Ansible

Kubernetes (AKS/EKS/GKE)

Azure App Gateway

Azure Front Door

F5 BIG-IP

Prometheus

Grafana

Datadog

Splunk

HashiCorp Vault

Azure Key Vault

Job description

U.S. Bank is seeking a senior engineer to lead Enterprise API Solution Engineering, building the API, AI, and gateway platforms across hybrid and multi-cloud environments. You will drive secure, scalable integrations and governance to empower enterprise domains.

You will architect API gateways (Apigee, AWS API Gateway, Azure API Management), implement IaC and CI/CD, and mentor teams while maintaining strong security postures and reliable delivery.