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lululemon · 2 days ago

Senior API Platform Engineer - Kong Gateway

Seattle, WA

Full-time

Hybrid

Mid, Senior Level

$136K/yr - $179K/yr

3+ years exp

lululemon is an innovative performance apparel company focused on creating transformational products and experiences. The Senior API Platform Engineer will manage the APIM platform with a specialization in KONG, optimizing and maintaining the KONG API Gateway while collaborating with cross-functional teams to define API requirements and implement security policies.

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Comp. & Benefits

No H1B

Responsibilities

Shape and influence the APIM product roadmap and solutions, including APIM standards, capabilities, integrations, platform self-service features, monitoring, cost management strategies, resiliency, and platform security

Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define API requirements, integrations, and standards

Implement and manage API security policies, including OAuth, JWT, rate limiting, IP filtering, and other industry-standard security protocols

Custom Plugin Development: Design and implement custom KONG plugins using Lua to meet specific business needs, such as advanced authentication, logging, rate limiting, and custom transformations

Monitoring, Logging & Tracing: Implement custom logging, monitoring, and distributed tracing capabilities through plugins to capture meaningful metrics, errors, and system health information. Use tracing tools (e.g., OpenTelemetry, Jaeger) to provide end-to-end visibility of API calls and identify performance bottlenecks

Provide documentation, training, and support to internal teams and stakeholders on KONG and API management practices

Develop and implement CI/CD via Gitlab

Clearly explain business value and considerations to the business groups about APIM platform services, including the required changes for organizations to be successful in their API development initiatives

Identify and anticipate new tools and features that can be leveraged to meet the company's strategic needs successfully

Qualification

KONG API GatewayKubernetesAWS infrastructureLua scriptingDatadogSplunkDevSecOps toolsAPI security policiesCI/CD via GitlabAgile developmentMentoring

Required

Bachelor's degree or diploma (or equivalent experience) in Computer Science, Software Engineering or Software Architecture preferred; candidates with substantial and relevant industry experience are also eligible

3-5 years of experience in APIM management tools with a specialization in KONG

Deep expertise in managing and optimizing API gateways, specifically KONG, and play a key role in implementing, configuring, and maintaining API management solutions for our organization

Performance, reliability, and scalability of KONG API Gateway, while also driving integration with other systems and troubleshooting any issues that arise

Experience with Kubernetes, Redis cache and any other AWS infra components needed to support Kong in AWS

Experience with Observability tool (OTEL framework) with deep skills in Datadog and Splunk for metrics and logs, respectively

LUA Experience and ideally experience in writing with Kong plugins in LUA

Expert level in DevSecOps tools and processes to include, but not limited to Git, JFrog Artifactory, Jenkins and HashiCorp Products

Desire to mentor younger team members and develop their skills

Ability to work effectively in an agile development environment and communicate with stakeholders at all levels