Senior API Platform Engineer — GraphQL & Apigee Expert

U.S. Bank; Saint Paul (MN); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 141,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare

401(k)

Paid vacation

Parental leave

Sick leave

Job summary

U.S. Bank is seeking an experienced API Platform Engineer to act as a technical SME for our enterprise API ecosystem. You will lead efforts across Apigee OPDK, Apigee Hybrid on Azure, and Apollo GraphQL platforms to design secure, scalable gateway solutions.

You will drive modernization, governance, and automation using GitLab CI/CD, Kubernetes, and IaC, while mentoring engineers and collaborating with Architects, Security, and Infrastructure teams.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree, or equivalent work experience.
• 7+ years in an IT environment.
• 7+ years in design, development and support of technology infrastructure.

Responsibilities

• Act as the technical SME for our enterprise API ecosystem across Apigee OPDK, Apigee Hybrid, and Apollo GraphQL platforms.
• Design and deliver secure, scalable API gateway solutions for critical business applications.
• Lead API platform modernization including migrations from Apigee On-Prem to Apigee Hybrid.
• Drive GraphQL platform strategy using Apollo Federation, Router, and governance.
• Implement enterprise API security: OAuth 2.0, JWT, mTLS, governance standards.
• Automate deployments/ops using GitLab CI/CD, Kubernetes, Helm, Ansible, IaC.
• Improve reliability via monitoring, observability, incident response, and capacity planning.
• Mentor engineers and collaborate with Architects, Security, Infrastructure.

Skills

API gateway design

Security controls

Cloud-native platforms

DevSecOps

Mentoring engineers

GraphQL

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Tools

Apigee OPDK

Apigee Hybrid

Azure AKS

Kubernetes

Helm

Ansible

GitLab CI/CD

Datadog

Job description

U.S. Bank is seeking an experienced API Platform Engineer to act as a technical SME for our enterprise API ecosystem. You will lead efforts across Apigee OPDK, Apigee Hybrid on Azure, and Apollo GraphQL platforms to design secure, scalable gateway solutions.

You will drive modernization, governance, and automation using GitLab CI/CD, Kubernetes, and IaC, while mentoring engineers and collaborating with Architects, Security, and Infrastructure teams.