API Engineer
Booz Allen Hamilton21 days ago
Base Salary
$87k - $198k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design, develop, deploy, operate, and support enterprise-scale API platforms.
- Build secure, reliable, high-performance, real-time, low-latency API solutions at scale.
- Apply backend engineering, distributed systems, API design, caching, load balancing, API security, and protocol expertise.
- Operate cloud-native API gateways and Kubernetes-based deployments using DevOps and GitOps practices.
- Collaborate with clients, architects, developers, and operations teams and gather requirements.
- Support integrations across mission-critical applications and services.
Requirements
- Experience in backend or platform engineering, distributed systems, API design, and software development using Java or Python.
- Experience designing, deploying, and operating API platforms using Apigee, Gravitee, Kong, AWS API Gateway, or MuleSoft.
- Experience with Docker, Helm, Kubernetes, and GitOps workflows.
- Experience with caching, load balancing, API security, and HTTP, gRPC, or WebSockets.
- Experience with AWS, Azure, or GCP and with Git and collaboration tools such as Jenkins, Jira, Confluence, Nexus, or Bitbucket.
- Experience gathering requirements and engaging with clients.
- Secret clearance is required.
- HS diploma or GED is required.
- Ability to obtain a Security+ Certification within 30 days of hire.
- Preferred experience includes SQL, server-side development, middleware, application or data integration, API development, core application systems, Node.js, Groovy, Scala, Spring Cloud, Spring Core, Spring Boot, Spring Data, Kafka, or RabbitMQ.
- A bachelor's degree in IT, Cybersecurity, or a related field and DoD 8140 Certification are preferred.
Benefits
- Hybrid work arrangement with work at a Booz Allen or customer facility according to leadership expectations and role needs.
- Health, life, disability, financial, and retirement benefits.
- Paid leave, professional development, tuition assistance, work-life programs, and dependent care.
- Recognition awards and access to employee benefit programs for eligible full-time and part-time employees working at least 20 hours per week.
Tech Stack
Apache KafkaAWSAzureDockerGitGoogle Cloud PlatformGroovygRPCHelmJavaJenkinsKubernetesNode.jsPythonRabbitMQScalaSpring BootSQL
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About Booz Allen Hamilton
Booz Allen Hamilton builds and integrates software, analytics, AI, cloud, and cybersecurity solutions while providing engineering and consulting services, primarily for U.S. defense, intelligence, and civil government clients, with select commercial partnerships. Its business is largely government contracting and professional services delivering mission systems and cyber defense. Founded in 1914 and headquartered in McLean, Virginia, Booz Allen is a public company traded on the NYSE (ticker: BAH).