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Senior API Platform Engineer
Digital Transformation | API Platform & Agentic Ecosystem
📍 United States | Remote
🕒 Full-Time
🌍 ABOUT YPO
YPO is a global leadership community of 35,000+ chief executives across 142 countries, built on peer learning, shared experiences and trusted relationships.
Our digital transformation is building a platform where members can discover relevant peers and experiences, understand why they see what they see, control their data and trust every interaction.
At the center of that transformation is a modern data and intelligence platform - with APIs serving as the connective tissue across YPO’s digital ecosystem.
💡 THE OPPORTUNITY
We’re looking for a Senior API Platform Engineer with deep backend and API engineering experience to help build the platform powering YPO’s member ecosystem, chapter operations and emerging Agentic AI capabilities.
This is more than an API implementation role.
You’ll work through complex questions around API architecture, highly connected data, scalability, caching, consistency, performance, security and governance - and turn those decisions into production-quality solutions.
You’ll own technical implementation end-to-end, make thoughtful architectural tradeoffs and partner across Product, Data, IT and Security to build systems that are scalable, secure, observable and maintainable.
⚙️ WHAT YOU’LL DO
API Architecture & Engineering
Design and build production-scale REST and GraphQL APIs using AWS API Gateway
Create stable API contracts that remain decoupled from underlying data and backend schemas
Design APIs over complex, highly connected and relationship-driven data
Solve architectural challenges involving caching, data consistency, concurrency, latency and performance
Define clear API and service boundaries using Domain-Driven Design principles
Design for scalability, reliability, resilience, security and observability
Implement versioning, backward compatibility and breaking-change strategies
Build within a serverless-first architecture using AWS Lambda and Step Functions
Event-Driven & Distributed Systems
Apply event-driven patterns using technologies such as Kafka, EventBridge and CDC
Design idempotent and resilient distributed workflows
Address data consistency, failure recovery and system behavior across interconnected services
Implement performance controls including caching, pagination and rate limiting
Agentic Ecosystem Engineering
Build governed API boundaries for AI agents using technologies including OpenAI, RAG and Gemini
Ensure agents interact through approved APIs rather than unrestricted raw data access
Support structured retrieval, provenance and deterministic fallback patterns
Build security, governance and observability into agent interactions
API Lifecycle & Governance
Own the API lifecycle from design and development through testing, documentation, versioning and deprecation
Maintain backward compatibility and clear breaking-change policies
Support CI/CD pipelines, observability and uptime requirements
Manage infrastructure through Infrastructure as Code using Terraform and/or AWS CDK
Partner with Security and Data teams on identity, authorization, privacy and consent requirements
🧩 WHAT YOU’LL HELP BUILD
Member & Relationship APIs
Identity, peer discovery, member relationships and graph-based data
Chapter APIs
Chapter operations, events and access
Agentic APIs
Governed API access and structured retrieval for AI agents
⚡ WHAT WE’RE LOOKING FOR
6–8+ years of backend/API engineering experience, with deep hands-on experience designing and building API layers for complex, production-scale systems
Strong REST and/or GraphQL API design experience, including contracts, versioning and lifecycle management
Experience designing APIs over complex or highly connected data models, including graph-based or relationship-driven data
Strong understanding of non-functional requirements at the API layer, including scalability, reliability, resilience, latency, security and observability
Experience solving caching, data consistency, concurrency and performance challenges in distributed systems
Ability to evaluate architectural tradeoffs and translate business and product requirements into maintainable technical solutions
Experience with AWS API Gateway and serverless architecture, including Lambda and Step Functions
Experience with event-driven systems such as Kafka, EventBridge and CDC patterns
Infrastructure as Code experience using Terraform and/or AWS CDK
Experience with OAuth2 and identity platforms such as Auth0 or Okta
Understanding of Domain-Driven Design and clear service/API boundaries
Experience building privacy- and consent-aware systems, including GDPR/CCPA considerations
Strong cross-functional communication skills and the ability to explain complex technical decisions clearly
Active use of AI development tools such as Copilot or Cursor
🌎 ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Travel: 10–15% domestic and international
Schedule: Flexible hours to support global teams
💰 COMPENSATION & PAY TRANSPARENCY
Compensation at YPO is one part of a broader Total Rewards philosophy built to attract, motivate and retain talented people in every country and function where we operate. We aim to be fair, consistent and thoughtful stewards of our resources, grounding pay decisions in market data, role scope and internal equity rather than negotiation alone.
Compensation ranges are based on the associate’s primary work location.
For United States applicants: USD $119,200–$155,000 annually
We believe pay is only part of how YPO invests in its people. Associates are also eligible for performance-based bonus opportunities, remote work flexibility and a comprehensive rewards package built around their wellbeing and growth. Your Talent Acquisition Business Partner will share details specific to your location as part of the interview process.
EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER
YPO is an Equal Opportunity Employer. YPO takes pride in supporting a diverse workforce and demonstrates this through its policies and practices. YPO does not discriminate in recruiting, hiring, training, promotion or other employment practices for reasons of race, color, religion, gender, national origin, age, sexual orientation, marital or veteran status, disability or any other legally protected status.
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