American Family Insurance

Senior Platform Engineer – API Management

American Family Insurance

full-time

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Location Type: Hybrid

Location: MadisonMassachusettsWisconsinUnited States

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Salary

💰 $99,000 - $167,000 per year

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About the role

  • Support API platform migration from Layer 7 to Apigee, ensuring smooth cutover and improved developer experience
  • Expand platform automation and IaC: Terraform for Apigee prod/non-prod environments
  • Automated proxy/shared-flow deployments
  • Self-service API product creation and lifecycle workflows
  • Disaster recovery/failover procedures
  • Build and operate API infrastructure (proxies, shared flows, API products) using standard policies (OAuth/JWT, rate limiting, mediation, service callouts)
  • Implement enterprise Postman automation/integrations: GitLab CI/CD workflows to sync collections/specs with repos
  • Automate publishing specs to Apigee for proxy generation
  • Automate publishing API docs to the software catalog
  • Define workspace governance and collaboration patterns
  • Operate Apigee X in hybrid multi-cloud (GCP/AWS): install, configure, upgrade, maintain
  • Own API security operations: OAuth policies, cert management, IdP integrations (Ping/ForgeRock/Azure Entra/Okta), vulnerability management
  • Improve developer enablement: self-service publishing/catalog workflows, docs/troubleshooting guides, shared libraries/templates, design standards/governance
  • Integrate with modern delivery/runtime platforms: Apigee + Postman + GitLab CI/CD, Kubernetes (GKE/EKS), Cloud Run, container orchestration
  • Strengthen observability with Datadog: performance/alerts, log analysis/RCA, SLO/SLA + error budgets, dashboards and incident playbooks
  • Support API consumers: roles/permissions, developer app onboarding, complex runtime/network troubleshooting
  • Drive adoption via documentation, training, and office hours

Requirements

  • 7+ years middleware and API platform experience (platform operations and increasing scope)
  • 4+ years Apigee administration (OPDK/Hybrid/X): proxy/shared-flow development, API products
  • Apigee architecture expertise (Nginx routers, Cassandra, Kubernetes integration, advanced troubleshooting)
  • 4+ years Google Cloud + Linux administration experience
  • CI/CD and automation in production: GitLab pipelines, Terraform (IaC), Python/shell scripting
  • API security expertise: OAuth, JWT, API keys, mTLS; grant types (Auth Code/PKCE, Client Credentials, Refresh Token)
  • Container/Kubernetes experience: Docker, GKE/EKS, cloud-native deployment patterns
  • API testing/documentation: Postman, OpenAPI/Swagger, API catalog management; Postman automation integrated with CI/CD
  • Observability/monitoring: Datadog (logs, performance tuning)
  • Relevant certifications (Apigee, Layer 7, GCP, Terraform)
Benefits
  • comprehensive medical, dental, vision and wellbeing benefits
  • competitive 401(k) contribution
  • pension plan
  • annual incentive
  • 9 paid holidays
  • paid time off program (23 days accrued annually for full-time employees)
  • student loan repayment program
  • paid-family leave
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Hard Skills & Tools
API platform migrationTerraformPostman automationGitLab CI/CDOAuthJWTKubernetesLinux administrationPythonshell scripting
Soft Skills
developer experiencecollaborationtroubleshootingdocumentationtraininggovernance
Certifications
ApigeeLayer 7GCPTerraform