Senior Apigee Engineer - AI-Driven API Gateway Lead

Axos Bank; New York (NY); On-site; USD 130,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, Dental, Vision

Life Insurance

Paid time off

Job summary

Axos Bank is hiring a Senior Apigee Engineer for its on-site API gateway platform. You will own Apigee X, manage proxies, shared flows, and security policies while collaborating with Infrastructure, Network, and Security teams to uphold standards and enable AI workloads under strict controls.

You will design, implement, and document platform architecture, runbooks, and CI/CD practices, and mentor consuming teams on API design and gateway usage.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in related field required.
• 5+ years of enterprise API architecture or engineering experience, including hands-on ownership of Apigee (X or Edge).
• Experience working with cloud platforms, especially Google Cloud (IAM, VPC, and networking) strongly preferred.

Responsibilities

• Own the Apigee X platform: API proxies, shared flows, policies, environments, deployments, and day-to-day operations
• Document the platform: architecture, standards, and runbooks
• Define and enforce proxy standards: structure, naming, versioning, deprecation, error handling, and reusable shared flows
• Manage the supporting pieces with Infrastructure and Network: DNS, certificates, TLS, and environment configuration
• Implement gateway security: OAuth 2.0 and OIDC, JWT validation, mTLS, quota and spike arrest, and threat protection
• Define risk tiers and approval gates for API changes in a regulated environment, and support audit and examination
• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines and promotion gates for proxy and policy artifacts
• Monitor platform health and API performance; define SLOs, alerts, and runbooks; lead root-cause analysis for gateway incidents
• Onboard consuming teams and advise them on API design
• Route LLM API traffic through the gateway with provider abstraction, failover, authentication, rate limiting, and logging
• Apply AI safety controls using Model Armor or an equivalent
• Establish patterns for exposing MCP servers and tools to internal agents through the gateway, with the same authentication and audit controls

Skills

Apigee

API design

Cloud experience

Security policies

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Terraform

Python

Java

Node.js

Google Cloud

Job description

Axos Bank is hiring a Senior Apigee Engineer for its on-site API gateway platform. You will own Apigee X, manage proxies, shared flows, and security policies while collaborating with Infrastructure, Network, and Security teams to uphold standards and enable AI workloads under strict controls.

You will design, implement, and document platform architecture, runbooks, and CI/CD practices, and mentor consuming teams on API design and gateway usage.