Senior Principal Platform Architect for Developer APIs

Bentley Systems; Philadelphia (Philadelphia County); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Bentley Impact Day

Colleague recognition programs

Bentley Achievers platform

Inclusion and wellbeing initiatives

Job summary

Bentley Systems is seeking a delivery-focused Senior Principal Engineer to own the end-to-end architectural direction of the Bentley Developer Platform, including API gateway, authentication, and metering. You will write production code, review PRs, and set standards in collaboration with Product and engineering teams.

Hybrid role based in Philadelphia. The position emphasizes hands-on contribution and strategic influence on API design, security models, and platform governance to enable

Qualifications

• 12+ years in software engineering with large-scale system architecture.
• End-to-end developer platform architecture from frontend to API registry.
• Hands-on with API Management platforms (MuleSoft, Apigee, Kong) and developer portals (Backstage).
• Proven ability to collaborate with product teams to define global API standards.

Responsibilities

• Define and execute the architecture of the developer platform, including API gateway, authentication, metering, and billing integration.
• Own end-to-end platform architecture from developer experience to registry, covering commercialization, adoption, support, monitoring, and analytics.
• Collaborate with Product to set API standards for monitoring, auth, metering and registration.
• Write production code, review PRs, and unblock engineers on the critical path.
• Serve as the primary technical interface between platforms and product engineering teams.
• Publish API Design Standards to reflect real-world usage across teams.
• Own platform standards and governance: telemetry, hub listings, security patterns.
• Establish IMS OAuth as the standard authentication model across platform surfaces.
• Document migration paths for existing APIs to meet platform standards.
• Ensure AI and MCP surfaces are first-class citizens with integration patterns.
• Partner with Engineering Manager on hiring, team structure, and delivery sequencing.
• Collaborate with CIO on ERP integration and unified architecture.

Skills

Software architecture

Technical leadership

API management

OAuth 2.0/OIDC

Distributed systems

Cloud-native

Code review

Tools

MuleSoft

Apigee

Kong

Backstage

Job description

Bentley Systems is seeking a delivery-focused Senior Principal Engineer to own the end-to-end architectural direction of the Bentley Developer Platform, including API gateway, authentication, and metering. You will write production code, review PRs, and set standards in collaboration with Product and engineering teams.

Hybrid role based in Philadelphia. The position emphasizes hands-on contribution and strategic influence on API design, security models, and platform governance to enable