Senior Software Engineer-API Gateway

About the role

GapTech is the engine behind Gap Inc.'s mission to be the world's favorite for American style. Our technologists are driving retail technology innovation, e-commerce for all Gap Inc.'s brands and delivering global, scalable, cloud-based solutions using best in class platforms. Reimagining retail has never been more fun! The API management team is driving an exciting transformation of the way software is developed, deployed and consumed globally at GapTech, using principles of API Integration through CNCF, DevOps and CI/CD. The API Gateway Engineer will operate and API gateway that optimize GapTech's software development and delivery lifecycle. The engineer will also help, guide and engage with Product Engineering teams producing and consuming APIs hosted on API platform What You'll Do Enhance and optimize our API gateway infrastructure. Implement service mesh improvements using Istio. Develop custom plugins in Go and Lua Configure and troubleshoot Envoy proxy deployments. Automate CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Runners Collaborate with the API platform team on infrastructure improvements

Requirements

• Has hands-on experience with service mesh architectures and API gateway implementations in containerized environments.
• Must have demonstrable experience delivering production-grade features written in Go and Lua, including the full lifecycle from development to deployment.
• Should be able to show examples of custom API gateway plugins, Envoy filters, or service mesh extensions they've implemented that have been successfully running in production environments.
• Experience with performance tuning and troubleshooting of API gateways at scale is essential.
• Kubernetes orchestration and deployment expertise
• Istio service mesh configuration and management
• Go programming language proficiency.
• Lua scripting experience
• GitHub Actions/Runners implementation and optimization
• Docker containerization
• Envoy proxy configuration and customization

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