Senior API Platform Developer (Apigee)

Job Title: Senior API Platform Developer Engineer (Apigee Edge / Non Hybrid Automation & CI/CD)

Location: NYC NY (3 days onsite minimum)

Duration: 6 months

Job Summary:

Role Summary: Senior development engineer responsible for building and operating an automation-first API delivery platform on Apigee Edge (Non Hybrid). Focus is on secure API proxy workloads engineering plus CI/CD modernization self-service deployments and governance at scale using API Management APIs Grunt and scripting.

• Apigee API workflow Engineering: design and standardize API proxies development at scale policies shared flows and reusable bundles.
• API Management APIs & Deployment Mechanisms (Core): automate API proxy Lifecycle using import/deploy/undeploy/redeploy revision governance promotion across environments and rollback patterns via management APIs.
• Parallel Multi Environment Multi Plant Releases orchestrate controlled concurrent deployments with safe sequencing and environment-specific configuration injection.
• Lifecycle Governance: multi-version management drift detection compliance validation (policy baselines OpenAPI alignment) and lifecycle analytics.
• Release Safety Controls: one-click rollback revision freeze/locks guardrails to prevent unintended changes.
• Self Service Enablement: automated request/approval/deploy workflows and deployment failure analysis.
• Automated Tollgates: Implement automated CI/CD tollgates that validate API policy compliance security controls OpenAPI/spec integrity dependency health and configuration drift producing auditable pass/fail evidence and a quantified release readiness score
• Operational Visibility & Monitoring: dashboards and reporting for usage quota burn capacity spikes; real-time anomaly alerts
• API Pipeline Modernization simplify and standardize onto Copilot-assisted Python pipelines; guardrail-driven deployments using Artifactory.

Core Skills

• Apigee Edge: Design and build Apigee proxies shared flows and policies (including JavaScript/Java callouts) and troubleshoot runtime issues such as latency quota enforcement caching behavior and routing
• API Management APIs: deployment automation revision strategy promotion/rollback deployment state interrogation auditability.
• Automation Engineering: Grunt Python/PowerShell scripting Git-based release workflows.
• CI/CD: gated promotions approvals artifact versioning automated rollback compliance enforcement.
• API Design: OpenAPI/Swagger contract validation schema/version governance.
• Security: OAuth2/JWT mTLS/cert lifecycle HTTPS fundamentals.
• Observability: logs/metrics/analytics alerting integrations; performance tuning mindset.
• Foundations: Linux CLI networking basics (TCP/IP DNS LB firewalls).