Senior Software Engineer, Media API Platform

Quick Facts

• Role: Senior Software Engineer, Media API Platform
• Team focus: Building and operating the API layer (GraphQL gateway and shared API infrastructure)

Description

Bloomberg Media’s Media API Platform team builds and runs the API layer used by internal and client-facing digital products. The platform includes federated GraphQL gateways (internal multi-subgraph and public client-facing) plus shared building blocks such as centralized authentication/authorization, rate limiting, token management, and job management. You’ll focus on reliability, observability, and modern tooling to help engineers build, discover, and consume APIs quickly and safely.

Responsibilities

• Provide expert GraphQL guidance to client developer teams on best practices
• Grow the federated graph securely and support future agentic clients
• Develop and promote internal and open-source GraphQL tooling for seamless deployments and governed adoption
• Implement agentic workflows to improve graph quality and speed of development
• Drive initiatives including org-wide IAM adoption, advanced observability, and improved job scheduling for offline workflows
• Analyze open-source and vendor offerings to advise on buy vs. build
• Partner with product and content teams on technical decisions, robust API design, and mentoring

Requirements

• 5+ years building and running backend services in production with ownership of systems used by other teams
• Expertise in at least one of: JavaScript/TypeScript (Node), Java, Kotlin, or Python
• Distributed systems understanding: service-to-service communication, caching, rate limiting, failure modes, reliability at scale
• Demonstrated use of AI-assisted and agentic engineering tools in real work
• Experience debugging production issues at web scale; comfortable with HTTP, DNS, TLS, proxies, load balancers, and observability (logs/metrics/traces)
• Strong cross-team collaboration and ability to work in other teams’ codebases
• Commitment to safer development through automated testing, CI/CD, standards, and documentation
• Strong written and spoken communication with mentoring and technical leadership experience

Benefits

• Comprehensive benefits plan including medical, dental, vision, disability, life insurance, 401(k) with match, paid holidays and time off, wellness programs
• Total rewards may also include merit increases and incentive compensation (exempt roles only)
• Salary range: $160,000–$240,000 USD annual + benefits + bonus