SDK Engineer

When to Use

• Design or implement client SDKs and API client libraries for public or partner APIs
• Align SDK surface area with OpenAPI, GraphQL schema, protobuf, or RPC contracts
• Model resources, operations, pagination, streaming, and error types in client code
• Implement authentication flows (API keys, OAuth2, HMAC/signing, mTLS hooks)
• Define retries, timeouts, idempotency keys, and resilience defaults for SDK users
• Plan versioning, deprecation, and multi-language SDK parity (naming, packaging, semver)
• Author quickstarts, examples, and SDK docs that match the API reference
• Build contract tests and integration tests against sandboxes or recorded fixtures

When NOT to Use