21 hours ago
Bucharest, RomaniaSenior
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and maintain API Gateway platform components for inbound and outbound traffic.
- Develop NGINX-based configurations and custom modules for gateway and front-end hosting use cases.
- Build automation tooling for resource management, configuration deployment, and release orchestration.
- Implement reliability patterns including circuit breakers, canary deployments, and DDoS mitigation across multiple data centers.
- Collaborate with platform engineers, SREs, security teams, and product teams to onboard domains and define gateway standards.
- Handle P1/P2 incidents, emergency production changes, troubleshooting, and postmortem analysis.
- Contribute to CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, configuration validation, and controlled production rollouts.
Requirements
- At least 5 years of hands-on software engineering experience building and operating distributed systems or platform/infrastructure products.
- Proficiency in Java.
- Experience with Go, Python, C, or Bash is a plus.
- Familiarity with containerization, orchestration, and CI/CD pipelines.
- Knowledge of NGINX configuration, modules, and reverse proxy patterns, or comparable technologies such as Envoy, HAProxy, or Kong.
- Understanding of HTTP/HTTPS, TLS/mTLS, DNS, load balancing, firewalls, and DMZ architectures.
- Strong debugging and incident response skills, including comfort handling P1/P2 incidents.
- Experience or knowledge of API gateways at scale, authentication and authorization protocols, observability tooling, SRE practices, and high-availability or disaster-recovery patterns is preferred.
- Strong communication and collaboration skills in a globally distributed, cross-functional environment.
Benefits
- Flexible way of working in a collaborative environment.
- The role supports production deployments twice per week and operates across development, test, acceptance, and production environments.
About ING
ING is a Dutch multinational bank providing retail, private, and wholesale banking, with strong digital and mobile services for consumers and businesses. Founded in 1991 and headquartered in Amsterdam, it operates across Europe and beyond, earning revenue from interest income, fees, and financial services. ING is a public company with shares traded in New York.