U.S. Bank

Lead Software Engineer - API, AI, and Agentic Gateway Platform

U.S. Bank$120K — $145K *
Information Technology
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent work experience
  • 6-8 years of relevant experience
  • Expertise in Platform and API Gateway Engineering
  • Strong hands-on experience with Apigee
  • Advanced knowledge of API Security mechanisms
  • Experience with Kubernetes and containerized applications
  • Proficiency in Infrastructure-as-Code and automation tools

Responsibilities

  • Lead design and operation of scalable API and cloud-native solutions
  • Architect and manage enterprise API gateway platforms
  • Develop and maintain API proxies and gateway policies
  • Build Infrastructure-as-Code frameworks for platform management
  • Implement CI/CD pipelines for improved developer productivity
  • Drive security and compliance standards in platform engineering
  • Design resilient multi-cloud networking solutions
  • Provide technical leadership and cross-functional collaboration

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
  • Up to 11 paid holiday opportunities
  • Adoption assistance
  • Sick and Safe Leave accruals up to 80 hours per year
Full Job Description
Job Description

About the Team

The Platform Engineering team designs, builds, and operates secure, compliant, and scalable API, AI, and cloud-native platforms that power digital services across the organization. We function as a platform engineering organization, enabling domain teams to accelerate delivery through self-service infrastructure, strong governance, and automation-first design.

We partner closely with Cloud Engineering, IAM, Information Security, Networking, and FinOps teams to ensure our platforms meet regulatory expectations while delivering a high-quality developer experience. Our mission is to enable secure, standardized, and high-performance platform ecosystems across hybrid and multi-cloud environments while enforcing enterprise standards through automation and policy-driven controls.

In this role you will lead Enterprise API Solution Engineering in building the API, AI, and Agentic Gateway Platform.

Job 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 to enable secure, high-performance integrations.
  • Build and enhance Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform) and automation frameworks to support platform provisioning, governance, and lifecycle management.
  • Implement and maintain CI/CD pipelines and self-service deployment capabilities that improve developer productivity and platform adoption.
  • 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, mentorship, incident management, and cross-functional collaboration with Cloud, Security, IAM, Networking, and FinOps teams.


Basic Qualifications
  • Bachelor's degree, or equivalent work experience
  • Six to eight years of relevant experience


Preferred Skills & Experience
  • Expertise in Platform Engineering, API Gateway Engineering, and Cloud Infrastructure within 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, 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, Front Door, ALB, NLB, and F5 BIG-IP.Experience implementing CI/CD, DevOps, and SRE practices, observability solutions (Prometheus, Grafana, Splunk, Datadog), and production support processes.Hands-on experience with Identity & Access Management, Entra ID (Azure AD) integration, HashiCorp Vault, Azure Key Vault, and enterprise authentication/authorization patterns.


Location expectations
This role requires working from a U.S. Bank location three (3) or more days per week.

Benefits:

Our approach to benefits and total rewards considers our team members' whole selves and what may be needed to thrive in and outside work. That's why our benefits are designed to help you and your family boost your health, protect your financial security and give you peace of mind. Our benefits include the following:
  • 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


Review our full benefits available by employment status here.

Posting may be closed earlier due to high volume of applicants.

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