Cloud Platform Engineer - API
State Street2 months ago
Base Salary
$90k - $158k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design, deploy, maintain, and automate enterprise API management platforms and infrastructure.
- Develop, secure, deploy, and manage enterprise-grade APIs on Microsoft Azure.
- Implement API versioning, lifecycle management, governance standards, authentication, authorization, rate limiting, transformations, caching, and filtering policies.
- Automate API deployment, configuration, testing, and policy management through CI/CD and infrastructure as code.
- Implement OAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect, JWT validation, certificate-based authentication, Zero Trust, and least-privilege access controls.
- Integrate APIs with Azure services including Entra ID, Functions, App Service, Service Bus, Event Grid, Storage, and Key Vault.
- Monitor API health, performance, reliability, and scalability; develop dashboards, alerts, and automated reporting.
- Support production incidents, troubleshooting, performance optimization, and root cause analysis.
- Perform API security assessments, remediate vulnerabilities, and maintain compliance with organizational security standards.
- Collaborate with application teams, architects, security teams, and DevOps engineers in a global distributed engineering environment.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, information technology, engineering, or a related field.
- 10+ years of API engineering or cloud development experience.
- Strong experience with enterprise API management solutions, API gateways, REST APIs, cloud-native development, security, automation, and integration patterns.
- Experience with API versioning, lifecycle management, governance, OpenAPI/Swagger, and service mesh concepts.
- Experience implementing CI/CD pipelines using Azure DevOps and GitHub Actions, and managing IaC with ARM Templates, Bicep, and Terraform.
- Experience with OAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect, JWT validation, certificate-based authentication, Microsoft Entra ID, and Zero Trust controls.
- Experience with Azure API management infrastructure, cloud services, monitoring, incident response, and operational engineering.
- Experience with gRPC and event-driven APIs is preferred.
- Azure certifications such as Azure Developer Associate, Azure Administrator Associate, Azure DevOps Engineer Expert, Azure Solutions Architect Expert, or Azure Security Engineer Associate are preferred.
- Experience with financial services, regulated environments, change management, security audit processes, or large-scale enterprise cloud platforms is preferred.
- Ability to work independently, document engineering decisions, drive technical initiatives, and contribute to team knowledge sharing.
Benefits
- Retirement savings plan with 401(k) company match.
- Insurance coverage including basic life, medical, dental, vision, long-term disability, and optional additional coverages.
- Paid time off including vacation, sick leave, short-term disability, and family care responsibilities.
- Employee Assistance Program.
- Eligibility for annual performance-based incentive compensation and certain tax-advantaged savings plans.
- Inclusive development opportunities, flexible work-life support, paid volunteer days, and employee networks.
About State Street
State Street is a global custodian bank and asset manager serving institutional investors with investment servicing, fund accounting, trading/FX, data, and index/active strategies. Its products include State Street Global Advisors’ funds and ETFs, the Charles River Investment Management Solution, and the front-to-back State Street Alpha platform. Founded in 1792 and headquartered in Boston, the company is publicly traded on the NYSE (ticker: STT) and operates across major markets worldwide.