Lead Software Engineer - API, AI, and Agentic Gateway Platform
About The Position
The Platform Engineering team designs, builds, and operates secure, compliant, and scalable API, AI, and cloud-native platforms that power digital services across U.S. Bank. The team enables domain groups to accelerate delivery through self-service infrastructure, governance, and automation-first design, partnering with Cloud Engineering, IAM, Information Security, Networking, and FinOps. In this role, you will lead Enterprise API Solution Engineering in building the API, AI, and Agentic Gateway Platform. You will lead the design, engineering, and operation of scalable platform solutions and provide technical leadership across enterprise business domains. The position requires working from a U.S. Bank location three or more days per week.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent work experience.
- Six to eight years of relevant experience.
- Expertise in Platform Engineering, API Gateway Engineering, and Cloud Infrastructure in 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, mutual TLS (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, Azure Front Door, ALB, NLB, and F5 BIG-IP.
- Experience implementing CI/CD pipelines, DevOps, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) practices, and observability platforms such as Prometheus, Grafana, Splunk, and Datadog.
- Hands-on experience with IAM, Microsoft Entra ID (Azure AD), HashiCorp Vault, Azure Key Vault, and enterprise authentication and authorization frameworks.
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 for secure, high-performance integrations.
- Build and enhance Terraform infrastructure-as-code and automation frameworks for platform provisioning, governance, and lifecycle management.
- Implement and maintain CI/CD pipelines and self-service deployment capabilities.
- 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 and mentorship, manage incidents, and collaborate with Cloud, Security, IAM, Networking, and FinOps teams.
Benefits
- Healthcare (medical, dental, and 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 (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 hours worked, up to 80 hours per calendar year unless otherwise provided by law
- Incentive and recognition programs
- Equity stock purchase
- Pension
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
