Senior Principal Platform Architect – Developer APIs

Blyncsy; Philadelphia (Philadelphia County); Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Bentley Impact Day

Competitive compensation

Job summary

Bentley Systems is seeking a Senior Principal Engineer to build and own the end-to-end technical architecture of the Bentley Developer Platform. You will drive API design standards, security models, and the developer experience from frontend to API registry, with hands-on coding and leadership across global teams.

In this role you will shape cloud-native platforms, mentor engineers, and coordinate with Product teams to publish API Design Standards.

Qualifications

• 12+ years of software engineering and architecture experience.
• Experience with API Management platforms (MuleSoft, Apigee, Kong, Workato).
• Experience defining global API standards and security models.
• Hands-on coding and ability to lead across teams.

Responsibilities

• Define and execute the architecture of the developer platform, including API gateway, authentication, and billing integration.
• Own end-to-end platform architecture from UX to API registry, including commercialization and analytics.
• Set API standards with Product teams to enable monitoring, authentication, metering and registration.
• Write production code and review pull requests; act as senior hands-on contributor.
• Publish API Design Standards and drive adoption across engineering teams.
• Define telemetry schema, security patterns, and platform governance across API families.

Skills

API architecture

Distributed systems

OAuth 2.0 / OIDC

Cloud-native design

Tools

MuleSoft

Apigee

Kong

Workato

Backstage

Job description

Bentley Systems is seeking a Senior Principal Engineer to build and own the end-to-end technical architecture of the Bentley Developer Platform. You will drive API design standards, security models, and the developer experience from frontend to API registry, with hands-on coding and leadership across global teams.

In this role you will shape cloud-native platforms, mentor engineers, and coordinate with Product teams to publish API Design Standards.