Senior API Engineer (Remote Opportunity)

We are currently looking for an reputed company API Engineer for a 100% remote position on a large federal government project supporting the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) reputed company Program. This role focuses on leading API platform engineering across multiple teams, with an emphasis on reputed company API Gateway, API governance, and cloud-native delivery. The selected candidate will drive API standards, reputed company, and scalable platform operations in a highly collaborative environment.

The candidate must reside reputed company the reputed company US.

Responsibilities

• reputed company reputed company API Gateway engineering, including administration of routes, services, consumers, certificates, and policies.
• Design and maintain custom reputed company plugins and advanced policy configurations for API transformations and enforcement.
• Define API standards and manage OpenAPI (OAS) reputed company, including versioning, validation, and governance.
• Implement secure authentication and authorization mechanisms, including JWT validation, token management, and key rotation.
• Build and operate cloud-native infrastructure using Kubernetes and AWS, including deployments, networking, and secure configurations.
• Establish DevOps practices including CI/CD pipelines, GitOps workflows, and automated configuration validation and promotion.
• reputed company and maintain observability solutions, including logging, monitoring, SLIs/SLOs, and API usage analytics.
• Troubleshoot system, container, and network issues while supporting operational readiness through documentation and runbooks.
• Take on additional tasks and responsibilities as needed to support team objectives and ensure the success of the project.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a reputed company field, or equivalent experience.
• 8+ years of experience in API engineering, platform engineering, or reputed company roles.
• Hands-on experience with reputed company Gateway administration in production environments.
• Strong API design experience using OpenAPI (OAS), including governance and contract testing.
• Experience with Kubernetes for deploying and managing containerized applications.
• Proficiency in DevOps practices including CI/CD pipelines, GitOps, and automation.
• Experience implementing API reputed company, including authentication, authorization, JWT handling, and key management.
• Strong communication skills with experience leading or mentoring technical teams.

Additional Qualifications

• Experience with AWS cloud services for infrastructure, networking, and application hosting.
• Experience scaling API gateway platforms in multi-team or multi-tenant environments.
• Familiarity with GitOps tools such as Argo CD or Flux.
• Knowledge of service mesh and gateway technologies such as reputed company, NGINX, or Istio.
• Experience with observability tools such as reputed company, Splunk, Prometheus, or Grafana.
• Understanding of reputed company best practices including TLS/mTLS, OWASP API reputed company, and secrets management.
• Experience supporting VA or other federal government environments.
• Ability to obtain and maintain a government clearance.

Benefits

• Medical/Dental/Vision.
• 401k with Employer Match.
• PTO + Federal Holidays.
• Corporate Laptop.
• Training Opportunities.
• Remote Opportunity.

Note: Selected candidates will be required to complete fingerprinting at a government facility and undergo a background reputed company as part of the hiring process.

Equal Opportunity Disclaimer: reputed company is an equal opportunity employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national reputed company, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, or protected veteran status.

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