Senior Apigee Engineer: AI-Powered API Gateway

Axos Bank; Omaha (NE); On-site; USD 130,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, Dental, Vision, and Life Ins.

Paid Sick Leave, 3 weeks’ Vacation, &

HSA or FSA

401(k) Retirement Saving Plan with 2

Employee Mortgage Loan Program

Job summary

Axos Bank is seeking a Senior Apigee Engineer to support and grow the bank’s API gateway platform. This onsite role focuses on Apigee X/Edge, security, and platform automation.

You will own the gateway, define standards, build CI/CD pipelines, and collaborate with Infrastructure, Network, and Security teams to extend capabilities, including AI workloads under strong controls. Remote work is not available.

Qualifications

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

Responsibilities

• Own the Apigee X platform: API proxies, shared flows, policies, environments, deployments.
• 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 X/Edge

Google Cloud

API design

Security policies

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Python

Java

Node.js

Terraform

Job description

Axos Bank is seeking a Senior Apigee Engineer to support and grow the bank’s API gateway platform. This onsite role focuses on Apigee X/Edge, security, and platform automation.

You will own the gateway, define standards, build CI/CD pipelines, and collaborate with Infrastructure, Network, and Security teams to extend capabilities, including AI workloads under strong controls. Remote work is not available.