Senior API Gateway engineer ( Kong & Python)& Middleware Administrator Full Time NEW

We are seeking a highly skilled Senior API Gateway engineer & Middleware Administrator with 10-12 years of experience to architect, develop, and manage our API gateway and enterprise middleware infrastructure. This role combines strong demonstrated hands-on development expertise in Lua and Python with deep operational knowledge of Kong API Gateway and enterprise middleware platforms.

Job Requirements

As a key member of our Platform Engineering team, you will be responsible for:

• Developing custom Kong plugins using Lua/Python to implement complex business logic, security policies, and integrations
• Administering Kong Gateway infrastructure, ensuring high availability, performance, and scalability
• Managing enterprise middleware platforms including Oracle Fusion, NGINX, and application servers
• Building CI/CD pipelines using Azure DevOps for automated deployment of Kong plugins and middleware components
• Architecting API and integration solutions that power our microservices ecosystem

The ideal candidate is a technical expert who thrives at the intersection of development and operations, possesses strong coding skills in Lua and Python, has proven experience managing enterprise middleware at scale, and brings a DevOps mindset to automate and optimize platform operations.

Must Have Skills

• Kong Plugin Development (2+ years) – MANDATORY
• Strong demonstrated experience in custom Kong plugin development using Lua, Python and Kong PDK
• Strong demonstrated experience in Kong lifecycle management
• Authentication, authorization, transformation, traffic control, and logging plugins
• Plugin testing, debugging, optimization, versioning, and deployment
• Kong Administration (2+ years) – MANDATORY
• Kong Gateway installation, configuration, and administration
• Architecture, clustering, HA, and load balancing
• Kong Admin API, and best practices
• Service/route/upstream/consumer/plugin management
• Performance tuning, SSL/TLS management, upgrades, monitoring
• Development (3+ years) – MANDATORY
• Strong demonstrated experience in Lua, Python, Kong SDK and Java
• Microservices, async programming (asyncio), and database connectivity
• Message queue integration (RabbitMQ, Kafka), and Azure SDK
• Middleware automation, ETL scripts, and monitoring solutions
• Testing and code quality
• Middleware Administration (2+ years) – MANDATORY

App/Web Servers

• Tomcat/Nginx/IIS/JBoss: Installation, configuration, deployment, tuning, and load balancing
• CI/CD Pipeline Development (3+ years) – Preferred
• CI/CD pipelines for Kong plugins and middleware
• Automated build/test/deployment, multi-environment strategies
• Quality gates, security scanning, deployment strategies

Education

IC – Typically requires a minimum of 8 years of related experience.Mgr & Exec – Typically requires a minimum of 6 years of related experience.

At NetApp, we embrace a hybrid working environment designed to strengthen connection, collaboration, and culture for all employees. This means that most roles will have some level of in-office and/or in-person expectations, which will be shared during the recruitment process.

Equal Opportunity Employer

NetApp is firmly committed to Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) and to compliance with all federal, state and local laws that prohibit employment discrimination based on age, race, color, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, religion, disability or genetic information, pregnancy, protected veteran status, and any other protected classification.

Why You’ll Thrive at NetApp

At NetApp, you won’t wait for the perfect moment—you’ll make it. The early planning, the extra thought, the bold idea that turns good into great: That’s how our people operate and how we continue to push the boundaries of data infrastructure.

NetApp is the trusted partner for organizations transforming data into opportunity. As the only enterprise-grade storage service natively embedded in Google Cloud, AWS, and Microsoft Azure, we empower customers to run everything from traditional workloads to enterprise AI with unmatched performance, resilience, and security.

Our culture

We celebrate mold breakers, bold thinkers, and problem solvers. We reward initiative, impact, and ownership. We provide flexibility so you can balance professional ambition with your personal life. Here, differences are not just welcomed—they drive everything we do.

If you’re ready to innovate, rise to the challenge, and own every moment – make your next move your best one. Apply now.