Senior GraphQL Platform Engineer — High-Scale APIs

Bloomberg; New York (NY); On-site; USD 160,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Bloomberg Senior Software Engineer - Media API Platform in New York leads the API layer for Bloomberg Media, building reliable, scalable GraphQL and REST endpoints and overseeing authentication, authorization, and job scheduling.

You will collaborate across product and content teams, bring AI-assisted tooling into workflows, and mentor engineers while shaping a high-velocity GraphQL ecosystem that serves millions of users.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience building and running backend services in production.
• Solid grasp of distributed systems, including service-to-service communication, caching, rate limiting, and reliability at scale.
• Real use of AI-assisted and agentic engineering tools in your work.
• Experience debugging production issues at web scale with HTTP, DNS, TLS, proxies, load balancers, and observability.
• Strong cross-team collaboration and ability to design APIs with other teams.

Responsibilities

• Provide expert GraphQL guidance to client developer teams.
• Grow and secure the graph for current and future client use.
• Develop and promote internal and open-source GraphQL tooling for deployments and adoption.
• Implement agentic workflows to improve graph quality and development speed.
• Drive IAM adoption, observability improvements, and scheduling services for offline workflows.
• Mentor engineers and lead technical decisions across teams.

Skills

Backend services

Distributed systems

AI-assisted tooling

Production debugging

Cross-team collaboration

CI/CD

Mentoring engineers

Tools

GraphQL

Apollo Federation

MySQL

PostgreSQL

OAuth

JWT

AWS

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

Bloomberg Senior Software Engineer - Media API Platform in New York leads the API layer for Bloomberg Media, building reliable, scalable GraphQL and REST endpoints and overseeing authentication, authorization, and job scheduling.

You will collaborate across product and content teams, bring AI-assisted tooling into workflows, and mentor engineers while shaping a high-velocity GraphQL ecosystem that serves millions of users.