
Senior Platform Engineer – API Management
American Family Insurance
full-time
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Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Madison • Massachusetts • Wisconsin • United States
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Salary
💰 $99,000 - $167,000 per year
Job Level
Tech Stack
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
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
API platform migrationTerraformPostman automationGitLab CI/CDOAuthJWTKubernetesLinux administrationPythonshell scripting
Soft Skills
developer experiencecollaborationtroubleshootingdocumentationtraininggovernance
Certifications
ApigeeLayer 7GCPTerraform