Job Description
As a Software Engineer, API Governance at Upsun, you own the vision and execution of our API governance strategy. You bring consistency, clarity, and quality to how our APIs are designed, built, and maintained—ensuring they are secure, compliant, and developer-friendly. Partnering closely with the Senior Director of Engineering, you drive initiatives that elevate the reliability, usability, and performance of our API ecosystem.
Lead strategic initiatives to standardize API design, defining naming conventions, schemas, and patterns across microservices. Manage the full API lifecycle from architecture reviews and documentation to deprecation policies and backward compatibility. Collaborate across Engineering, Product, and Security teams to embed governance policies and controls into API design and delivery.
Solve complex challenges in data consistency and interoperability across microservices. Ensure our API strategy supports scalability, integration, and innovation, empowering developers and enabling AI agents to consume data efficiently. Drive adoption of best practices that improve developer experience, speed of delivery, and system reliability. Contribute to Upsun’s API-first culture, where robust, well-documented APIs become the backbone of every product and service.
About Upsun
Upsun is the cloud application platform humans and robots love and is built for today’s hybrid teams, where AI agents write and test code and humans focus on solving problems.