Senior API Platform Engineer Apigee X/Edge - cvshealth

We’re building a world of health around every individual — shaping a more connected, convenient and compassionate health experience. At CVS Health®, you’ll be surrounded by passionate colleagues who care deeply, innovate with purpose, hold ourselves accountable and prioritize safety and quality in everything we do. Join us and be part of something bigger – helping to simplify health care one person, one family and one community at a time.

Position Summary

API Platforms supports CVS Health's digital transformation by delivering secure, scalable, and reliable API management capabilities across the enterprise.

As a Senior API Platform Engineer, you will design, build, and operate enterprise API gateway services that enable secure and scalable integration across mission-critical applications. This role is responsible for API platform engineering, API governance, platform operations, and technical leadership, with opportunities to leverage automation, cloud, and reliability engineering practices to improve platform performance and developer experience. Experience with Apigee is strongly preferred; however, candidates with experience on other enterprise API management platforms are encouraged to apply.

*This role is remote. We are open to candidates based in CST or EST time zones in the United States.

Responsibilities

Design, develop, and maintain API proxies, shared flows, policies, and reusable platform components using Apigee X and enterprise API management technologies

Define and implement API governance, security, traffic management, observability, and operational standards across the enterprise

Participate in on-call rotations and major incident management activities

Lead API platform modernization and migration initiatives, partnering with application teams to onboard APIs and adopt platform best practices

Support and operate enterprise API gateway services by monitoring platform health, troubleshooting incidents, performing root cause analysis, and ensuring high availability

Drive continuous improvement through automation, CI/CD, Infrastructure as Code, and self-service capabilities that enhance platform reliability and engineering productivity

Collaborate with Engineering, Security, Architecture, and Product teams while providing technical leadership, mentorship, and guidance on API platform solutions

Required Qualifications

5+ years of software, platform, or infrastructure engineering experience

3+ years of hands-on experience with API management platforms such as Apigee X, Apigee Edge, Kong, Azure API Management, MuleSoft, or IBM API Connect

Experience designing, developing, and supporting RESTful APIs and enterprise API gateway solutions

Strong understanding of API security concepts, including OAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect, JWT, TLS, certificates, and API threat protection