Vice President | Senior Engineer API Gateway

Macquarie Group
Macquarie Group

Software Engineering

Posted on Sep 17, 2026
Our team is responsible for building and evolving the enterprise API Gateway platform on AWS, providing secure, scalable, and innovative capabilities that support both traditional API protocols and emerging AI technologies. Working with a product mindset, we partner with engineering teams across Macquarie to deliver a seamless self-service platform experience that enables developers to build, integrate, and innovate with speed and confidence.
We are a global financial services group operating in 30 markets with 57 years of unbroken profitability. At Macquarie, you’re empowered to shape a career that is fulfilling and creates value. You will bring your insights and expertise to the task at hand and feel supported as you make your own kind of impact for a better future.

What role will you play?

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In this role, you will design, deploy, and operate internal and external API Gateway platforms, with deep hands-on ownership of Solo.io products, including routing, traffic management, transformations, rate limiting, and authentication/authorization. You will configure and manage API Gateways on Kubernetes, covering control plane setup, Envoy data plane optimization, Gateway API integration, and platform lifecycle management. You will also architect and deliver platform engineering capabilities on AWS EKS, including cluster provisioning, networking, autoscaling, service mesh implementation, and workload onboarding.

What you offer

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• Deep expertise in API gateways and API management, including Envoy, REST/gRPC, OpenAPI/AsyncAPI, authentication and authorization patterns (OAuth2, OIDC, JWT, mTLS), and API security best practices.
• Strong hands-on experience with Kubernetes-based API gateway platforms, particularly Solo.io Gloo, with exposure to other gateway solutions such as Kong, Apigee, AWS API Gateway, or Tyk considered advantageous.
• Proven platform engineering experience on AWS EKS, including Kubernetes operations, Terraform, Helm, GitOps tooling (ArgoCD/Flux), IAM, and VPC networking.
• Experience designing and operating CI/CD and developer platforms, with a focus on self-service capabilities, GitOps practices, and automation using tools such as GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, or Jenkins.
• Infrastructure-as-Code and automation mindset, with proficiency in Python, Go, or Bash, and practical knowledge of API governance frameworks, standards, and tooling; experience with Gloo Mesh/Gloo Platform is a plus.
We love hearing from anyone inspired to build a better future with us, if you're excited about the role or working at Macquarie we encourage you to apply.

What we offer

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At Macquarie, you’re empowered to shape a career that’s rewarding in all the ways that matter most to you. Macquarie employees can access a wide range of benefits which, depending on eligibility criteria, include:


  • 1 wellbeing leave day per year
  • 26 weeks’ paid maternity leave or 20 weeks’ paid parental leave for primary caregivers along with 12 days of paid transition leave upon return to work and 6 weeks’ paid leave for secondary caregivers
  • Company-subsidised childcare services
  • 2 days of paid volunteer leave and donation matching
  • Benefits to support your physical, mental and financial wellbeing including comprehensive medical and life insurance cover, the option to join parental medical insurance plan and virtual medical consultations extended to family members
  • Access to our Employee Assistance Program, a robust behavioural health network with counselling and coaching services
  • Access to a wide range of learning and development opportunities, including reimbursement for professional membership or subscription
  • Hybrid and flexible working arrangements, dependent on role
  • Reimbursement for work from home equipment

About Technology

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Technology enables every aspect of Macquarie, for our people, our customers and our communities. We’re a global team that is passionate about accelerating the digital enterprise, connecting people and data, building platforms and applications and designing tomorrow’s technology solutions.

Inclusion at Macquarie

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We are committed to providing an inclusive environment for all, where different experiences, skills and perspectives are valued and respected. Macquarie provides access to opportunities for all individuals regardless of race, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, national origin, age, disability, protected veteran status, genetic information, marital status, gender identity or any other characteristic or circumstance.

We provide reasonable adjustments to individuals who may need support during the recruitment process and employment. If you require an adjustment, please let us know during the application process.
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