Job Description
Role Purpose
Seeking an experienced API Gateway Engineer to design, build, secure, and operate API gateway platforms that support high‑volume, business‑critical services at scale. The ideal candidate brings deep expertise in API design, development, integration, and lifecycle management, with strong hands‑on experience delivering reliable and secure API connectivity across distributed systems.
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REQUIRED_SKILL:
6+ years of overall software engineering or platform engineering experience
4+ years of hands‑on experience designing, developing, and supporting API platforms or API gateway–based architectures
Strong background in API design and development, including RESTful APIs, versioning strategies, error handling, and backward compatibility
Proven experience implementing authentication and authorization mechanisms (e.g., OAuth2, JWT, mTLS, API keys)
Extensive experience troubleshooting and resolving issues in large‑scale, distributed, production environments
Proficiency in Java, particularly for API, gateway, or middleware development
Strong development experience with Python for automation, scripting, and platform tooling
Experience with API integration testing and automated testing tools, including functional, regression, and performance testing
Solid understanding of observability and telemetry concepts, including logging, metrics, tracing, and alerting
Hands‑on experience with source‑control systems and collaborative development workflows (e.g., Git)
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DESIRED_SKILL:
Experience with enterprise‑grade API gateway platforms (e.g., Apigee, Kong, Azure API Management, AWS API Gateway, or equivalent)
Strong understanding of API lifecycle management, including onboarding, versioning, deprecation, and retirement strategies
Hands‑on experience implementing traffic management and governance policies, such as rate limiting, throttling, quota management, and request/response transformation
Familiarity with service mesh or ingress technologies and their interaction with API gateways
Experience integrating APIs with identity providers and enterprise authentication systems (e.g., OAuth2 providers, OpenID Connect, SSO platforms)
Knowledge of CI/CD pipelines and automated deployment strategies for API and gateway configurations
Exposure to performance testing and load testing tools for validating API scalability and resilience
Experience working in cloud or hybrid environments, including network connectivity and security considerations
Strong analytical mindset with the ability to diagnose complex integration and runtime issues across multiple systems
Excellent communication skills, with the ability to collaborate effectively across engineering, security, and operations teams
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POSITION_SUMMARY
This role focuses on implementing and managing API gateway capabilities including routing, transformation, policy enforcement, authentication and authorization, rate limiting, and traffic management. The candidate will work closely with application teams, platform engineers, and security partners to ensure APIs are scalable, observable, resilient, and secure by design.
Success in this role requires strong troubleshooting skills in complex, large‑scale environments, along with experience building automation and tooling in Python to support API onboarding, testing, deployment, and operational workflows. A solid understanding of observability and telemetry, including metrics, logging, and tracing, is essential for ensuring platform reliability and rapid issue resolution.
The ideal candidate has strong Java experience, particularly in API, gateway, or service‑oriented architectures, and is fluent in automated testing practices for validating API behavior, integrations, and performance across environments.
Competencies
Experience: 5-8 Years .
The expected compensation for this role ranges from $60,000 to $135,000 .
Final compensation will depend on various factors, including your geographical location, minimum wage obligations, skills, and relevant experience. Based on the position, the role is also eligible for Wipro's standard benefits including a full range of medical and dental benefits options, disability insurance, paid time off (inclusive of sick leave), other paid and unpaid leave options.
Applicants are advised that employment in some roles may be conditioned on successful completion of a post-offer drug screening, subject to applicable state law.
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