This is an environment unlike anything in the high-tech world and the secret of Costco’s success is its culture. The value Costco puts on its employees is well documented in articles from a variety of publishers including Bloomberg and Forbes. Our employees and our members come FIRST. Costco is well known for its generosity and community service and has won many awards for its philanthropy. The company joins with its employees to take an active role in volunteering by sponsoring many opportunities to help others. In 2018, Costco contributed over $39 million to organizations such as United Way and Children’s Miracle Network Hospitals.

Costco IT is responsible for the technical future of Costco Wholesale, the second largest retailer in the world with wholesale operations in twelve countries. Despite our size and explosive international expansion, we continue to provide a family, employee centric atmosphere in which our employees thrive and succeed. As proof, Costco consistently ranks in the top five of Forbes “America’s Best Employers”.

This position is responsible for the installation, development, configuration, and operations of the web service gateway platform which includes API management, gateway, service bus, registry and repository. The gateway and service bus are core to Costco integration strategy and they work in support of web service and API consumers and providers. Security configuration and management is hardened into all of these components. This developer role will be responsible for helping to document, design and develop the service integration infrastructure and all of its capabilities. This developer role will also participate and provide leadership for ongoing development and maturity of API and service governance.

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ROLE

• Maintains current knowledge of industry trends and standards around API management and security.
• Mentors members of the IT team and be an education resource for the integration team.
• Collaborates across teams to enhance and add new capabilities to our platform to support consumers and providers.
• Develops, configures, operates and evolves the API Management platform (Apigee).
• Develops, configures, operates and evolves the internal service bus and external service gateway platforms (DataPower).
• Helps to define what a target end-state architecture will look like leveraging both cloud and on-prem solutions.
• Operates and helps evolve the service registry and repository platform (WSRR).
• Develops, configures, operates and evolves the developer portal (Apigee).
• Develops, evolves, hardens and maintains security infrastructure for service integration components.
• Optimizes API and service proxy runtime components.
• Recommends and develops service integration standards, guidelines, and best practices.
• Works with Service Engineering to ensure that service designs utilize the appropriate patterns and standards.

REQUIRED

• 3 to 5 years’ development experience using Java and Javascript.
• 3 to 5 years’ scripting to automate operational tasks.
• 1 to 2 years’ experience developing and deploying services or APIs.
• Experience working with SAML and OAUTH security.
• Ability to document standards, policies, installation guides.

Recommended

• Hands on experience with:
  • Apigee Edge, Datapower or other similar technologies.
  • Splunk searching and reporting.
  • Scripting Jython/Python and Shell scripting.
  • XSLT.
• Familiarity with:
  • Application and service integration patterns.
  • WebSphere Application Server, WebSphere Message Broker (IIB), and WebSphere MQ.
  • WebSphere Service Registry and Repository (WSRR).

Required Documents

• Cover Letter
• Resume

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Apart from any religious or disability considerations, open availability is needed to meet the needs of the business. If hired, you will be required to provide proof of authorization to work in the United States. Applicants and employees for this position will not be sponsored for work authorization, including, but not limited to H1-B visas.