Hiring: Senior Principal Engineer, API Hub Company: Bentley Systems Location: Philadelphia, PA Job Posted Time: 2026-09-16 12:56:42 Employment Type: Hybrid Target Skills & Keywords : API Design, API Gateway, Enterprise Architecture, OAuth, OAuth2, OIDC, REST About the job Experience: •12+ years of software engineering experience and significant time spent architecting large-scale systems. Required Skills: •We are seeking a Senior Principal Engineer to define and own the end to end technical architecture of the Bentley Developer Platform, which includes the front end developer experience, the API gateway, standards, authentication, metering, and billing infrastructure that powers Bentley's portfolio of developer APIs and MCP servers. •Define the architecture of the developer platform, including the API gateway, authentication, metering, billing integration, and settlement, ensuring it is sound, extensible, and cloud-native from the outset. •Own the end-to-end platform architecture from the developer experience through to the registry, including all aspects of commercialization, adoption, support, monitoring, and analytics. •Interface directly with the Product team to set API standards that will allow for monitoring, authentication, metering, and registration. •Write production code and review pull requests; remain the senior hands-on technical contributor on the team and unblock engineers on the critical path. •Serve as the primary technical interface between the Developer Platform, Product & Technology and product engineering teams, building credibility as the go-to person for platform questions. •Jointly develop and publish API Design Standards v1, working collaboratively with product teams so that standards reflect the technical reality of what those teams are building and are adopted in practice. •Own platform standards and governance: define the telemetry schema, maintain hub listing requirements, and establish the security and integration patterns applied across all API families. Qualifications: •Proven ability to own the comprehensive developer platform architecture spanning from the front-end developer experience down to the API registry encompassing commercialization, adoption, support and analytics. •Demonstrated experience partnering closely with Product teams to define and establish global API standards that enable monitoring, authentication, metering and registration. •Strong technical expertise in OAuth 2.0 / OIDC, token handling, and underlying platform security models. •Hands-on experience engineering distributed systems, event streaming, API gateways, routing, usage-based billing pipelines, and ERP/settlement integrations. •Unique blend of hands-on coding ability and the communication skills to work credibly and collaboratively with multiple distinct product engineering teams. •Operational familiarity with AI/agent integration patterns and MCP is a strong plus. •Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to align senior stakeholders and engineers across organizational boundaries. Interested candidates, please apply directly through the job posting on company's career page or try via AI auto apply on this platform. Don't miss this opportunity to join a forward-thinking team!