Senior Apigee Engineer - AI-Driven API Gateway Lead

Axos Bank; Irvine (CA); On-site; USD 130,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, Dental, Vision, and Life

Paid time off & holidays

401(k) with employer match

Employee mortgage program

Free Axos Bank account access

Job summary

Axos Bank is hiring a Senior Apigee Engineer to oversee the API gateway platform, drive standards, and support platform deployment. You will coordinate with Infrastructure, Network, and Security teams to implement secure, scalable API delivery and enable AI workloads within controls.

This is an onsite role with no remote option. Responsibilities include managing proxies, environments, security policies, and CI/CD, while guiding API design for consuming teams and ensuring governance for changes

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a related field is required.
• 5+ years of enterprise API architecture or engineering with hands-on Apigee.
• Experience with Google Cloud services (IAM, VPC, networking) preferred.

Responsibilities

• Own the Apigee X platform: proxies, shared flows, policies, environments, deployments.
• Document platform architecture, standards, and runbooks.
• Define and enforce proxy standards—structure, naming, versioning, deprecation, error handling.
• Collaborate with Infrastructure/Network on DNS, certificates, TLS, and env config.
• Implement gateway security: OAuth 2.0, OIDC, JWT, mTLS, quotas, threat protection.
• Define risk tiers and approval gates for API changes; support audits.
• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines and promotion gates for artifacts.
• Monitor platform health; set SLOs, alerts, and runbooks; lead root-cause analysis.
• Onboard consuming teams and advise on API design.
• Route LLM API traffic through gateway with auth, rate limiting, logging.
• Apply AI safety controls (PII, prompt-injection defense) using Model Armor or equivalent.
• Expose MCP servers/tools through gateway with auth and audit controls.

Skills

Apigee X/Edge

Enterprise API architecture

Google Cloud IAM/VPC

CI/CD pipelines

Python/Java/Node.js

API security

Education

Bachelor's degree in related field

Tools

Terraform

Git

Job description

Axos Bank is hiring a Senior Apigee Engineer to oversee the API gateway platform, drive standards, and support platform deployment. You will coordinate with Infrastructure, Network, and Security teams to implement secure, scalable API delivery and enable AI workloads within controls.

This is an onsite role with no remote option. Responsibilities include managing proxies, environments, security policies, and CI/CD, while guiding API design for consuming teams and ensuring governance for changes