Software Engineer (API Platform)

• The Software Engineer on the API Platform team helps build the internal API layer that connects NodeZero’s services and powers the interfaces that customers and integrations rely on. API Platform owns the gateway, the API contracts, and the shared platform capabilities that other teams consume — your work directly determines the reliability, latency, and developer experience of NodeZero’s service mesh
• You’ll join a small team anchored by a P5 technical lead and a P4 senior engineer, shipping against a roadmap that includes API consolidation, versioning, rate limiting, and observability. This role reports to the API Platform Engineering Manager
• Implement and maintain API endpoints, middleware, and platform services in Go
• Build and evolve the API gateway layer — routing, authentication, rate limiting, and request/response shaping
• Write and maintain API contracts (OpenAPI/gRPC definitions) and communicate breaking changes to internal consumers
• Contribute to service reliability: monitoring, alerting, SLA tracking, and incident response for platform APIs
• Write clear, reviewable code with tests that cover both the happy path and failure modes
• Collaborate with Data Ingestion, Integrations Platform, and Client Platform teams who consume the APIs you build

Benefits

• Growth Opportunities: Be part of a dynamic and growing team with numerous career advancement opportunities
• Innovation-Driven Culture: Work in a collaborative environment that encourages creativity and out-of-the-box thinking
• Flexible Work Environment: Enjoy the convenience and work-life balance that comes with remote work
• Inclusive and Diverse Team: We value diversity and promote an inclusive culture where everyone can thrive- Solid understanding of REST API design principles and HTTP semantics; experience with gRPC is a plus
• Ability to reason about service reliability: latency, error rates, retry behavior, and circuit breaking
• 2+ years of professional software engineering experience building production backend services
• Proficiency in Go or strong motivation to ramp quickly — Go is the primary language on this team
• Comfort working in Kubernetes-based environments — deploying, debugging, and understanding how services interact
• Familiarity with API authentication patterns (OAuth 2.0, API keys, JWT)
• Experience with containerized development workflows (Docker)
• Comfortable working asynchronously across a distributed team
• You communicate blockers early and ask for help without prompting
• You write code that your teammates can read and review without decoding — clear naming, small functions, meaningful tests
• Experience with API gateway technologies (Kong, Envoy, NGINX, or cloud-native equivalents)
• Exposure to service mesh architectures (Istio, Linkerd)
• Experience with gRPC and protobuf-defined service contracts
• Background in cybersecurity or experience building APIs consumed by security tools