Principal Systems Engineer - Enterprise API Platform & GraphQL Engineering
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. What You'll Do Act as the technical SME for our enterprise API ecosystem, leading engineering efforts across Apigee OPDK, Apigee Hybrid (Azure), and Apollo GraphQL platforms. Design and deliver secure, scalable, and highly available API gateway solutions that support critical business applications. Lead API platform modernization initiatives, including Apigee On-Prem to Apigee Hybrid migrations and cloud-native platform adoption. Drive GraphQL platform strategy, architecture, and optimization utilizing Apollo Federation, Apollo Router, and schema governance. Implement enterprise API security controls including OAuth 2.0, JWT, mTLS, traffic management, and API governance standards. Automate platform deployments and operations using GitLab CI/CD, Kubernetes, Helm, Ansible, and Infrastructure as Code. Improve platform reliability through monitoring, observability, incident response, performance tuning, and capacity planning. Partner with Architects, Security, Infrastructure, and Development teams while mentoring engineers and advancing AI-driven engineering practices.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree, or equivalent work experience
- At least 7 years of experience within a total information technology (IT) environment
- At least 7 years of experience with the design, development and support of technology infrastructure
Nice To Haves
- Experience administring and engineering Apigee OPDK (On-Prem) including API management, proxy development, traffic management, analytics, and platform administration.
- Experience engineering and supporting enterprise platforms, middleware, API management solutions, cloud infrastructure, or distributed application environments.
- Hands-on expertise deploying and supporting Apigee Hybrid on Azure AKS/Kubernetes environments.
- Strong experience with Apollo GraphQL, including Federation, Router, schema design, governance, and performance optimization.
- Deep knowledge of API security including OAuth 2.0, OIDC, JWT, mTLS, and enterprise security best practices.
- Experience building and supporting cloud-native platforms using Kubernetes, Helm, containers, and Azure services.
- Strong automation and DevSecOps skills utilizing GitLab CI/CD, Ansible, Python, Bash, and GitOps methodologies.
- Experience with observability platforms such as Datadog, distributed logging, monitoring, and Site Reliability Engineering (SRE).
- Proven ability to lead large-scale platform engineering initiatives, influence architecture decisions, and mentor technical teams.
Responsibilities
- Act as the technical SME for our enterprise API ecosystem, leading engineering efforts across Apigee OPDK, Apigee Hybrid (Azure), and Apollo GraphQL platforms.
- Design and deliver secure, scalable, and highly available API gateway solutions that support critical business applications.
- Lead API platform modernization initiatives, including Apigee On-Prem to Apigee Hybrid migrations and cloud-native platform adoption.
- Drive GraphQL platform strategy, architecture, and optimization utilizing Apollo Federation, Apollo Router, and schema governance.
- Implement enterprise API security controls including OAuth 2.0, JWT, mTLS, traffic management, and API governance standards.
- Automate platform deployments and operations using GitLab CI/CD, Kubernetes, Helm, Ansible, and Infrastructure as Code.
- Improve platform reliability through monitoring, observability, incident response, performance tuning, and capacity planning.
- Partner with Architects, Security, Infrastructure, and Development teams while mentoring engineers and advancing AI-driven engineering practices.
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
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Principal
Education Level
Associate degree
