Overview
Make your mark on the future of ArcGIS. Join the ArcGIS Enterprise team as a REST API Product Engineer.
We’re looking for a Product Engineer passionate about software development, APIs, and web technologies. In this role, you’ll design, test, and document REST API features in collaboration with cross-functional engineering and product teams. You’ll help ensure ArcGIS Enterprise REST APIs are reliable, secure, scalable, and designed to solve real customer problems. This role blends strong technical skills with user advocacy, clear documentation, and cross-team communication to deliver REST API features that power critical GIS workflows for organizations worldwide.
Responsibilities
- Collaborate with Software Development Engineers, Product Engineers, and Product Managers to design, enhance, and validate REST APIs for geospatial workflows in ArcGIS Enterprise across multiple deployment environments (Windows, Linux, Kubernetes)
- Develop and execute functional, integration, and automation tests for new and existing API capabilities
- Advocate for users and developers within the software development team, ensuring APIs are intuitive, consistent, and built to support customer workflows
- Participate in project planning, contributing to scope definition, timelines, and delivery milestones
- Coordinate and communicate REST API features, updates, and changes with internal teams across engineering, documentation, support, and product management
- Certify REST API features prior to product release, ensuring quality and readiness
- Write and maintain API reference documentation, samples, and developer-facing guidance
- Present REST API features, design decisions, and release readiness at internal milestone and review meetings
- Showcase API capabilities and best practices by presenting at Esri conferences
Requirements
- 2+ years of experience designing, testing, and validating RESTful APIs
- Solid understanding of REST, web services, and HTTP concepts (methods, headers, status codes, authentication, security)
- Proficiency in one or more programming or scripting languages (such as Python, JavaScript, Java)
- Experience with ArcGIS Enterprise, ArcGIS Online, or other similar geospatial technology
- Ability to write clear, accurate, and developer-friendly technical documentation
- Strong communication skills and comfort collaborating across teams
- Attention to detail, ownership mindset, and commitment to product quality
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, mathematics, GIS, or related field
Recommended Qualifications
- Experience with cloud computing platforms and services, such as Amazon S3, SQS, EC2, and Azure
- Experience with API test automation frameworks or performance testing
- Experience presenting technical topics to internal or external audiences
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Total Rewards
Esri’s competitive total rewards strategy includes industry-leading health and welfare benefits: medical, dental, vision, basic and supplemental life insurance for employees (and their families), 401(k) and profit-sharing programs, minimum accrual of 80 hours of vacation leave, twelve paid holidays throughout the calendar year, and opportunities for personal and professional growth. Base salary is one component of our total rewards strategy. Compensation decisions and the base range for this role take into account many factors including but not limited to skill sets; experience and training; licensure and certifications; and other business and organizational needs.
The Company
At Esri, diversity is more than just a word on a map. When employees of different experiences, perspectives, backgrounds, and cultures come together, we are more innovative and ultimately a better place to work. We believe in having a diverse workforce that is unified under our mission of creating positive global change. We understand that diversity, equity, and inclusion is not a destination but an ongoing process. We are committed to the continuation of learning, growing, and changing our workplace so every employee can contribute to their life’s best work. Our commitment to these principles extends to the global communities we serve by creating positive change with GIS technology. For more information on Esri’s Racial Equity and Social Justice initiatives, please visit our website here.
If you don’t meet all of the preferred qualifications for this position, we encourage you to still apply!
Esri is an equal opportunity employer (EOE) and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. If you need reasonable accommodation for any part of the employment process, please email [email protected] and let us know the nature of your request and your contact information. Please note that only those inquiries concerning a request for reasonable accommodation will be responded to from this e-mail address.
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Skills Required
- 2+ years designing, testing, and validating RESTful APIs
- Solid understanding of REST, web services, and HTTP concepts (methods, headers, status codes, authentication, security)
- Proficiency in one or more programming or scripting languages (such as Python, JavaScript, Java)
- Experience with ArcGIS Enterprise, ArcGIS Online, or similar geospatial technology
- Ability to write clear, accurate, developer-friendly technical documentation
- Strong communication skills and comfort collaborating across teams
- Attention to detail, ownership mindset, and commitment to product quality
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, mathematics, GIS, or related field
- Experience with cloud platforms and services (Amazon S3, SQS, EC2, Azure)
- Experience with API test automation frameworks or performance testing
- Experience presenting technical topics to internal or external audiences
Esri Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Esri and has not been reviewed or approved by Esri.
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Healthcare Strength — Feedback suggests health coverage is a standout, with full company-paid medical, dental, and vision premiums frequently cited as uncommon and valuable. Comprehensive options, including mental health support and FSAs, reinforce confidence in core healthcare benefits.
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Affordable Benefits — Feedback suggests employer-paid premiums lower out-of-pocket costs, which many view as a meaningful offset to lower cash pay in some roles. This affordability underpins satisfaction with total compensation even when salaries are seen as moderate relative to tech hubs.
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Retirement Support — Feedback suggests 401(k) matching and profit sharing are valued components that strengthen long-term financial security. These programs contribute to a perception of stability and a well-rounded total rewards package.
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What We Do
As a leading location intelligence platform provider (Forrester Wave 2020), Esri empowers leaders with innovative tools to help create sustainable prosperity. Esri's customers drive digital transformation by embracing the power of location. We pioneer problem solving with GIS to help you see what others can’t. We build ArcGIS, the world’s most powerful mapping & spatial analytics software. ArcGIS software and apps combine mapping and data analytics to deliver location intelligence and meet digital transformation needs for organizations of all sizes.
