Software Development Engineer III - API Platform

About the Role:

• Design and scale API frameworks, define long-term versioning systems, and architect the backbone that powers thousands of partner integrations and developers
• Collaborate across engineering, product, and platform groups to ensure our API surface is reliable, scalable, discoverable, and future-proof
• Helping us deliver a seamless developer experience in a fast-growing, multi-tenant SaaS environment

Responsibilities:

• Own API lifecycle management: versioning, migration, deprecation, and compatibility guarantees.
• Build frameworks for API reliability: rate limiting, circuit breaking, retry semantics, idempotency, and data consistency patterns
• Improve API observability via structured logging, telemetry standards, SLO-driven dashboards, and API analytics.

Requirements:

• Proven experience owning or designing public-facing API frameworks, developer platforms, or integration ecosystems.
• Deep knowledge of API paradigms (REST, GraphQL, event-driven APIs), Versioning strategies, Authentication & security standards & Schema evolution, OpenAPI management, and contract testing
• Experience with distributed systems: queues, event buses, CRON schedulers, idempotency, message ordering, and failure recovery