Lead Software Engineer - API, AI, and Agentic Gateway Platform

U.S. Bank • Atlanta, GA

6d • Hybrid

About The Position

At U.S. Bank, we’re on a journey to do our best. Helping the customers and businesses we serve to make better and smarter financial decisions and enabling the communities we support to grow and succeed. We believe it takes all of us to bring our shared ambition to life, and each person is unique in their potential. A career with U.S. Bank gives you a wide, ever-growing range of opportunities to discover what makes you thrive at every stage of your career. Try new things, learn new skills and discover what you excel at—all from Day One. About the Team The Platform Engineering team designs, builds, and operates secure, compliant, and scalable API, AI, and cloud-native platforms that power digital services across the organization. We function as a platform engineering organization, enabling domain teams to accelerate delivery through self-service infrastructure, strong governance, and automation-first design. We partner closely with Cloud Engineering, IAM, Information Security, Networking, and FinOps teams to ensure our platforms meet regulatory expectations while delivering a high-quality developer experience. Our mission is to enable secure, standardized, and high-performance platform ecosystems across hybrid and multi-cloud environments while enforcing enterprise standards through automation and policy-driven controls. In this role you will lead Enterprise API Solution Engineering in building the API, AI, and Agentic Gateway Platform.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree, or equivalent work experience
• Six to eight years of relevant experience

Nice To Haves

• Expertise in Platform Engineering, API Gateway Engineering, and Cloud Infrastructure within large-scale enterprise environments.
• Strong hands-on experience with Apigee (Hybrid/OPDK), including platform architecture, API proxy development, deployment, operations, and performance optimization.
• Advanced knowledge of API Security including OAuth 2.0, JWT, API Keys, mTLS, secure token flows, and threat protection controls.
• Experience with Kubernetes platforms (AKS, EKS, GKE), containerized applications, and cloud-native architectures.
• Proficiency with Infrastructure-as-Code and automation tools including Terraform, Helm, and Ansible.
• Strong understanding of Networking and Traffic Management, including DNS, TCP/IP, TLS, load balancing, Azure Application Gateway, Front Door, ALB, NLB, and F5 BIG-IP.
• Experience implementing CI/CD, DevOps, and SRE practices, observability solutions (Prometheus, Grafana, Splunk, Datadog), and production support processes.
• Hands-on experience with Identity & Access Management, Entra ID (Azure AD) integration, HashiCorp Vault, Azure Key Vault, and enterprise authentication/authorization patterns.

Responsibilities

• Lead the design, engineering, and operation of scalable API, AI, and cloud-native platform solutions supporting enterprise business domains.
• Architect and manage enterprise API gateway platforms including Apigee, AWS API Gateway, and Azure API Management.
• Develop and maintain API proxies, shared flows, gateway policies, and GraphQL services to enable secure, high-performance integrations.
• Build and enhance Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform) and automation frameworks to support platform provisioning, governance, and lifecycle management.
• Implement and maintain CI/CD pipelines and self-service deployment capabilities that improve developer productivity and platform adoption.
• Drive security, compliance, and governance standards, including OAuth 2.0, JWT, mTLS, RBAC, audit logging, and policy-as-code controls.
• Design resilient multi-cloud networking and connectivity solutions, including private endpoints, load balancing, disaster recovery, and traffic management.
• Provide technical leadership, mentorship, incident management, and cross-functional collaboration with Cloud, Security, IAM, Networking, and FinOps teams.

Benefits

• Healthcare (medical, dental, vision)
• Basic term and optional term life insurance
• Short-term and long-term disability
• Pregnancy disability and parental leave
• 401(k) and employer-funded retirement plan
• Paid vacation (from two to five weeks depending on salary grade and tenure)
• Up to 11 paid holiday opportunities
• Adoption assistance
• Sick and Safe Leave accruals of one hour for every 30 worked, up to 80 hours per calendar year unless otherwise provided by law

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: Associate degree