Principal API Gateway Engineer
Arpu Telecommunication Services · Cairo, Egypt · 16d ago
About this Role:
This role is in one of ArpuPlus’ business units, CloudCom, and will play a key role in building and scaling the API gateway layer supporting CloudCom’s telecom and Network API capabilities.
. Design and build the API gateway layer for CAMARA-style and TM Forum-aligned APIs.
· Implement routing, authentication hooks, rate limiting, throttling, request validation, and policy enforcement.
· Define gateway patterns for multi-tenancy, versioning, API lifecycle management, and high availability.
· Work with the Telecom Standards Architect to translate API standards into deployable services.
· Guide backend engineers on API design, OpenAPI specifications, and platform engineering practices.
· Evaluate and integrate gateway technologies such as Kong, Apigee, Tyk, NGINX, Envoy, or similar.
· Support performance tuning, scalability, and resilience of the platform.
- Bachelor's degree in computer science or any other related field.
- More than 10 years of experience in the related field
- Strong backend engineering experience with API platforms or gateway technologies.
- Experience with REST APIs, OpenAPI, OAuth2, OIDC, mTLS, and API security.
- Strong cloud-native experience, preferably Kubernetes and microservices.
- Experience building highly available, production-grade platforms.
- Telecom, fintech, cloud platform, or identity platform experience is a strong plus.