# Senior Software Engineer (APIM & Gateway) at Ambassador Labs

- Company: Ambassador Labs
- What the company does: Gravitee Edge Stack + Gravitee streamline multi-gateway API management with unified visibility, governance, and a single developer portal for all your APIs. Backed by Insight.
- Company website: https://www.getambassador.io/
- Type: Startups
- Level: Senior
- Location: Denver, United States
- Work setup: On-site
- Posted: 2026-09-22
- Apply by: 2026-11-06
- Apply: https://graviteetopcoltd.teamtailor.com/jobs/8434463-senior-software-engineer-apim-gateway
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/ambassador-labs-senior-software-engineer-apim-and-gateway/

## About the role

We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer to build product experiences and the APIs behind them. You will turn operational data into clear visualizations and help customers configure and govern APIs and AI agents. As Gravitee expands its AI Agent Management capabilities, you will help build interfaces for configuring AI Gateways, governing MCP and agent-to-agent interactions, discovering tools and agents, and monitoring how agentic systems behave in production.

## What they're looking for

- We are looking for evidence that you can succeed in the role, whether gained through employment, open-source work, or equivalent practical experience:
- 5+ years building and running production backend software, on a team that ships and supports its own product, you have personally resolved production incidents. •
- Strong Java experience and experience designing maintainable REST APIs and backend services, with Maven and a reactive stack such as Vert.x/RxJava with backpressure
- Strong TypeScript and modern frontend development experience using a component-based framework (Angular preferred), including building data-rich interfaces and visualizations
- Working knowledge of API gateway and reverse-proxy architecture: request lifecycle, policy and plugin chains, entrypoints/endpoints, and sync and event-driven APIs
- API security fundamentals: OAuth2, JWT, API keys, mTLS, rate limiting and quotas, CORS