Senior Software Engineer, Control Planes

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If you dont think you meet all of the criteria below but are still interested in the job please apply. Nobody checks every box - were looking for candidates that are particularly strong in a few areas and have some interest and capabilities in others.

At Kong we are pioneering the Agentic Era of service connectivity by building the infrastructure that powers the modern API world. As a Software Engineer on the Konnect Control Plane team you will architect the next-generation cloud-hosted control plane that manages global customer configurations seamlessly.

Your work will directly empower developers worldwide ensuring high availability speed and seamless connectivity for Kongs flagship service connectivity platform.

• Architect and scale microservices that power Kong Konnects cloud-hosted control plane to manage global customer configurations seamlessly.

• Design implement and maintain highly performant low-latency APIs and services that deliver exceptional Developer Delight.

• Drive solutions for technical problems of moderate complexity keeping an active focus on preventing technical debt.

• Prevent regressions and guarantee product stability by writing robust automated tests.

• Own the reliability and uptime of services in production by participating in an active on-call rotation.

• Collaborate closely with Product Management Solutions Architects and cross-functional engineering teams to implement impactful business features.

• 5 years of experience working in a team environment to develop deliver and maintain complex distributed software solutions.

• Solid proficiency in Go (Golang) and designing relational database data models.

• Practical experience building debugging and maintaining microservices architectures at scale.

• Demonstrated experience performing DevOps monitoring observability and supporting a large-scale SaaS platform running on Kubernetes and containerized environments.

• Working knowledge of L4/L7 proxies such as Nginx HA-proxy or Envoy.

• Firm grasp of API lifecycle management design standards and testing frameworks (TDD/automated testing).

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

• Ownership: You act as a driver not a passenger and take complete accountability for the quality of your systems and outcomes.

• Urgency: You thrive in a high-growth environment iterating quickly and pushing for results with passion and grit.

• Collaboration: You break down silos communicate transparently and model the true spirit of a team player.

• Deep experience with Go standards and writing idiomatic highly optimized Go.

• Direct experience with Nginx OpenResty LuaJIT or the Kong gateway core.

• Experience with cloud-native observability stacks specifically Datadog or OpenTelemetry.

• Active contributions to open-source software projects.

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About Kong:

Kong Inc. the AI Connectivity Company is building the connectivity layer of AI. Trusted by the Fortune 500 and AI-native startups alike Kongs unified API and AI platform enables organizations to secure manage accelerate govern and monetize the flow of intelligence across APIs and AI traffic on any model any cloud. For more information visit .

Required Experience:

Senior IC