Senior Manager of Microservices

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We’re looking for a Senior Manager of Microservices to lead three critical platform engineering teams that provide enterprise-grade “paved path” solutions for API routing, Graph

QL federation, and security/bot protection serving 600+ developers and millions of users daily.

This role will build and scale the Frontdoor (API Gateway) , our Graph

QL Federation layer , and Product Security & Bot Protection teams—managing 8-12 talented individual contributors who maintain and enhance core infrastructure enabling secure, scalable service delivery across

You will be responsible for the strategic direction, continuous enhancement, and operational excellence of our API gateway infrastructure (
Tyk ), Graph

QL federation layer (
Apollo ), and security perimeter (
Kasada
).

Team Leadership & Development

• Build and lead three specialized platform teams (Frontdoor, Pantheon, Product Security) with 8-12 individual contributors.
• Recruit, mentor, and retain top engineering talent with expertise in API management, Graph
  
  QL federation, and security engineering.
• Create career development frameworks and technical growth paths; conduct 1:1s, performance reviews, and team planning.
• Foster a culture of technical excellence, ownership, and developer-first thinking across platform services.
• Establish team structures and on-call rotations that balance operational excellence with innovation.

Platform Strategy & Enhancement

• Define and execute strategic roadmaps for Frontdoor (Tyk API Gateway), Apollo Federation, and Product Security platforms.
• Drive adoption of “paved path” solutions across a 600+ developer organization with a focus on developer experience, self-service, and scalability.
• Enhance existing platform capabilities including authentication/authorization, rate limiting, Graph
  
  QL schema federation, and bot protection.
• Balance production system maintenance with feature development, technical debt reduction, and platform modernization.
• Evaluate and recommend new technologies (Kong, MCP on Graph
  
  QL gateway, security tools); drive POCs and architecture decisions.
• Partner with engineering and product leadership to align platform capabilities with business priorities.

Legacy System Retirement & Modernization

• Lead the retirement of legacy systems including rdc-x-api ,
  Hestia/Kasbah , and PerimeterX
  .
• Develop migration strategies, coordinate with stakeholders, and execute safe transitions minimizing business disruption.
• Drive deprecation timelines, communication plans, and stakeholder management for platform changes.
• Ensure knowledge transfer, documentation, and runbook updates during modernization initiatives.

Technical Leadership & Operations

• Provide hands-on technical guidance on complex API routing, Graph
  
  QL federation, OAuth, and security architecture challenges.
• Establish SLOs, monitoring, and observability practices for platform services; lead incident response and post-mortems.
• Champion best practices for API design, Graph
  
  QL schema management, rate limiting strategies, and security controls.
• Drive automation, infrastructure as code, and operational efficiency improvements.
• Maintain expertise across Tyk Gateway, Apollo Federation, Kasada, AWS (EKS, Cloud Front, WAF), and Kubernetes.

Cross-Functional Collaboration

• Partner with Platform Reliability Engineering, Quality Engineering Operations, and Infrastructure teams on reliability initiatives.
• Collaborate with Security and Compliance teams on OAuth migrations, secrets…