Senior Enterprise API Platform Engineer

About the Role

We are seeking a highly skilled Senior Software Engineer to join our growing Enterprise API Platform this role you will be responsible for designing developing securing and maintaining our API platforms using Google Apigee and Azure API Management. You will play a key role in building the next-gen enterprise API platform establishing governance practices and ensuring high performance security and scalability across Fergusons API ecosystem.

If youre passionate about building secure and scalable API ecosystems and want to work in a collaborative high-impact environment wed love to hear from you.

Key Responsibilities

• Design implement and maintain robust API proxies and gateways on enterprise-wide API platforms using Google Apigee and Azure API Management.
• Develop API policies transformation logic and automation with javascript and C#.
• Manage API specifications across multiple versions and environments based on OpenAPI best practices and tools like SwaggerHub.
• Champion best practices for API versioning reusability and scalability. Ensure consistent API governance lifecycle management and design standards.
• Troubleshoot and resolve platform and integration issues related to routing security and connectivity across multiple environments.
• Support internal and external API consumers through Developer Portals to enable self-service onboarding and smooth integration.
• Monitor and track live API traffic across platforms to detect anomalies and performance issues using tools like DataDog Azure Log Analytics and Grafana.
• Analyze logs and metrics to support investigations alerting/reporting and performance tuning.
• Collaborate closely with Technical Architects Product Owners and Business Analysts to align API platform features with business goals.

Required Qualifications

• Experience in API platform or middleware integration with internal and external business systems.
• Experience in development configuration and administration on Google Apigee and Azure API Management.
• Strong understanding of RESTful APIs OpenAPI/Swagger event-based non-REST API (SOAP Pub/Sub etc.) and API-first development approaches.
• Familiarity with OAuth 2.0 JWT API Keys and other modern API security protocols.
• Proficient in troubleshooting API failures and performance bottlenecks using logs metrics and platform APIs.
• Proven ability to work across cross-functional teams including architecture operations and product.
• Experience supporting developer onboarding and usage of API Developer Portals.
• Experience contributing to Agile processes backlog refinement and user story development based on business requirements.

Preferred Qualifications

• Exposure to API monetization rate limiting and traffic management in large-scale environments.
• Familiarity with microservices architecture and containerized environments.
• Hands-on experience with automated API functional and performance testing.
• Experience with CI/CD tools such as Jenkins GitHub Actions or similar for automated API deployment and testing.