The API Solutions Engineer role is a technical solution engineer who works with internal and external partners to facilitate API Platform onboarding and API consumption. The SE will collaborate with the API Engineering team(s), Technical Writers, and Product Management to help clarify and prioritize partner needs and help foster an environment for ongoing strategic success of the API initiative.
Responsibilities
- Primary responsibility for the API Solutions Engineer is to work with development teams to implement OAuth2 security via the API Platform and API offerings
- Collaborate with API Platform teams to manage interactions with the client s/provider s development staff on API capabilities, use cases, and technical solutions
- Assist clients in onboarding to the platform and API gateway
- Develop tooling and automation around manual consulting process
- Work with clients to understand their use cases and provide guidance
- As a API Solutions Engineer, you will collaborate with technical writers to create API documentation, tutorials, and demo applications
- Provide examples and sample code to client developers as needed
- Act as a liaison with gateway engineers to assist with development team questions and troubleshooting problems
Required Skills
- Understanding of Restful API standards and development
- Knowledge of OAuth2 authentication and authorization
- Past development experience using OAuth2 security both as consumer and API provider
- Good communication skills, both written and verbal
- Experience with troubleshooting and solving problems