PROJECT

• These roles will focus on continuing the evolution of the API Security, Certification and automation platform, Stargate. Stargate provides centralized, self-service API gateway for applications as well as cataloging and quality assurance tools.
• Immediate efforts for the project focus on tracking and managing APIs provide by applications hosted on public cloud providers.

ADDITIONAL PROJECT DETAILS

• API Gateway to develop certification and self-service automation to extend tracking and control of APIs deployed on premises and public cloud. Integrate preferred on premises API gateway with PEP automation platform, PRM.

IDEAL BACKGROUND:

• Proficient in several modern programming languages (Python/Java/C++/LUA)
• Experience with the an API gateway
• Experience running containerized workloads
• Experience with DevOps, Continuous Integration, and Continuous Delivery

TOP REQUIREMENTS

• 1 year experience: API Gateways; Nginx/OpenResty/Kong or equivalent
• 2 years experience: Java
• 2 years experience: Familiar with container platforms (docker)
• 2 years experience: CI/CD - Jenkins, Ansible

Experience will set candidates apart from one another:

• Direct support of an API Gateway.
• Experience both with networking hardware and software development
• Security background

TEAM STRUCTURE

• 8-12 Engineers 1 Engineering Manager.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Design, modify, develop, write and implement software programming applications in support of the API Gateway.
• Participate in the testing process through test review and analysis, and skilled in Agile development methodologies, including unit testing and continuous integration.
• Working on an Agile team, participating in Scrum ceremonies and working as a team to fix bugs and work on new features for Kong API Gateway and supporting applications.
• Customer interaction providing support for Gateway issues by reading Splunk logs and troubleshooting the network stack.
• Developing Plugins and features into Kong API Gateway product and contributing back to open source.
• Enhancing monitoring/alerting of application using Splunk and Grafana/Prometheus.
• Troubleshooting of network issues using Splunk and working with other teams such as Firewall, F5, and private cloud teams.
• Part of an on-call support rotation to handle support issues working with application teams to troubleshoot and fix issues.
• Responsible for large and more complex components, while influencing overall product architecture and patterns.
• Influences the team designs and solutions. Mentors software engineers through code reviews, and hands on design sessions.

Required Qualifications:

• Undergraduate degree or equivalent experience in Software Engineering
• 2+ year in platform engineering
• 2+ year software development or engineering
• Experience in full software lifecycle activities
• Experience with Agile methodology
• Experience operationalizing larger products

Preferred Qualifications:

• OSI L4 and L7 networking knowledge, TCP/IP, TLS, IP/DNS
• Kong/OpenResty API Gateway
• Java/Python/LUA development
• Identifies solutions to non-standard requests and problems
• Solves complex problems and/or conducts complex analyses
• Works with minimal guidance; seeks guidance on only the most complex tasks
• Experience with Cassandra, Splunk, Prometheus, Grafana
• Experience working in agile environment
• CI/CD leveraging Github/Docker/Jenkins
• Direct API Gateway knowledge including Nginx, OpenResty/Kong
• System Reliability Engineering practices
• Familiar with HTTP and REST API best practices
• Administration of Cassandra

INTERVIEW PROCESS:

• a. How many rounds? 2 with the second one being the longest (1st manager screen, 2nd panel interview)
• b. Video vs. phone? Video