Join us as we work to create a thriving ecosystem that delivers accessible, high-quality, and sustainable healthcare for all.
Position Summary: We are looking for a Senior Platform Engineer – API Gateway to join the athenahealth platform engineering team in Bangalore. This role is ideal for an experienced software engineer with strong expertise in public and private cloud environments, distributed systems, and API platform technologies. The selected candidate will contribute to designing, building, and scaling high-quality platform services that support secure, reliable, and scalable API management capabilities across the organization. The role requires hands-on experience with cloud infrastructure, modern programming languages, Kubernetes, Infrastructure as Code, and API gateway technologies.
About the Team: The Managed API Gateway team at athenahealth is responsible for handling traffic routing, load balancing, authentication, and authorization for API requests across microservices. The platform provides a unified entry point for both internal and external APIs, enabling secure, scalable, and reliable communication across distributed systems. The team focuses on improving platform scalability, operational reliability, developer productivity, and cloud-native engineering practices while supporting athenahealth’s growing platform ecosystem.
Essential Job Responsibilities:
Design, develop, and deploy scalable platform services and API gateway capabilities in cloud-native environments
Produce clear and accurate technical design specifications and architectural documentation
Build and maintain high-quality software components and services aligned with security, performance, and reliability standards
Develop, debug, test, and deploy production-ready code while ensuring adherence to coding best practices
Scale systems to support increasing business demand and availability requirements, including HA/DR targets
Participate actively in agile sprint planning, story estimation, backlog refinement, and technical discussions
Perform peer code reviews, troubleshooting, and technical debt identification to improve overall platform quality
Additional Job Responsibilities:
Monitor and optimize API gateway, cloud infrastructure, and platform service performance
Support Infrastructure as Code (IaC) implementation and automation initiatives using Terraform and related tools
Collaborate with DevOps, Platform, Security, and Engineering teams to improve deployment and operational processes
Analyze code, application logs, and system behavior for advanced troubleshooting and issue resolution
Ensure Definition of Done (DoD) standards are met, including testing, documentation, bug fixes, and code quality requirements
Contribute to continuous improvements in CI/CD pipelines, monitoring, and cloud operations
Support secure authentication and authorization integrations using IAM solutions such as Okta, Ping, or similar tools
Expected Education & Experience:
Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field
5–9 years of experience in software engineering or platform engineering roles
Strong programming expertise in languages such as Go, Python, Node.js, Java, or JavaScript
Experience with cloud platforms and services including Amazon Web Services (ECS, EC2, ELB, IAM, RDS, Route53, Lambda, CloudWatch, VPC, S3)
Hands-on experience with Kubernetes, RESTful APIs, API Gateway technologies, and Infrastructure as Code tools like Terraform
Knowledge of Linux, SQL, Redis, CI/CD tools such as Jenkins, and monitoring stacks
Exposure to Identity and Access Management (IAM) solutions such as Okta, Ping Identity, or related technologies preferred
About athenahealth
Our vision: In an industry that becomes more complex by the day, we stand for simplicity. We offer IT solutions and expert services that eliminate the daily hurdles preventing healthcare providers from focusing entirely on their patients — powered by our vision to create a thriving ecosystem that delivers accessible, high-quality, and sustainable healthcare for all.
Our company culture: Our talented employees — or athenistas, as we call ourselves — spark the innovation and passion needed to accomplish our vision. We are a diverse group of dreamers and do-ers with unique knowledge, expertise, backgrounds, and perspectives. We unite as mission-driven problem-solvers with a deep desire to achieve our vision and make our time here count. Our award-winning culture is built around shared values of inclusiveness, accountability, and support.
Our DEI commitment: Our vision of accessible, high-quality, and sustainable healthcare for all requires addressing the inequities that stand in the way. That's one reason we prioritize diversity, equity, and inclusion in every aspect of our business, from attracting and sustaining a diverse workforce to maintaining an inclusive environment for athenistas, our partners, customers and the communities where we work and serve.
What we can do for you:
Along with health and financial benefits, athenistas enjoy perks specific to each location, including commuter support, employee assistance programs, tuition assistance, employee resource groups, and collaborative workspaces — some offices even welcome dogs.
We also encourage a better work-life balance for athenistas with our flexibility. While we know in-office collaboration is critical to our vision, we recognize that not all work needs to be done within an office environment, full-time. With consistent communication and digital collaboration tools, athenahealth enables employees to find a balance that feels fulfilling and productive for each individual situation.
In addition to our traditional benefits and perks, we sponsor events throughout the year, including book clubs, external speakers, and hackathons. We provide athenistas with a company culture based on learning, the support of an engaged team, and an inclusive environment where all employees are valued.
Learn more about our culture and benefits here: athenahealth.com/careers
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athenahealth Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about athenahealth and has not been reviewed or approved by athenahealth.
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Healthcare Strength — Health coverage is described as comprehensive, including medical, dental, and vision options alongside additional protections like accident and critical illness coverage. Mental health support and EAP-style counseling resources are also part of the package.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Time-away offerings include PTO that covers vacation and sick time, paid holidays, and options for leaves of absence and sabbaticals. Flexible time off is positioned as a meaningful part of the overall rewards package for some roles.
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Retirement Support — Retirement benefits include a 401(k) plan with employer matching, supported by broader financial wellbeing resources. Equity and performance bonuses are also referenced as part of total rewards.
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What We Do
athenahealth strives to cure complexity and simplify the practice of healthcare. Our innovative technology includes electronic health records, revenue cycle management, and patient engagement solutions that help healthcare providers, administrators, and practices eliminate friction for patients while getting paid efficiently. athenahealth partners with practices with purpose-built software backed by expertise to produce the insights needed to drive better clinical and financial outcomes. We’re inspired by our vision to create a thriving ecosystem that delivers accessible, high-quality, and sustainable healthcare for all. For more information, please visit www.athenahealth.com
Why Work With Us
We are here to make an impact on the healthcare industry at scale. We enable our diverse teams to move fast, grapple with interesting technical challenges, and innovate at every level. We are on a modernization journey and build on the hybrid cloud. We deliver best-in-class solutions to help every patient receive the best possible care.
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