Senior Software Engineer, AI Gateway Milan
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Posted on:
14 hours ago
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Job Summary
Are you ready to power the Worlds connections
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.
About the role:
You will join the engineering team that builds the Kong AI gateway empowering companies and developers around the world to govern every step of their AI & LLM based innovation.
As a Senior Software Engineer in the AI Gateway Team you will be working on core features such as multi-LLM routing and balancing semantic caching and routing MCP and more.
What youll be doing:
Responsible for designing building and maintaining API management software for AI and LLMs and its underlying stack.
Architecture design and implement new innovative features including proxying capabilities load balancing databases support that extend Kong AI Gateways offering.
Bugs troubleshooting performance tuning and low-level optimizations.
Fill the gaps between Kong and third-party deployment platforms and tooling.
Mentor junior members of the team.
Any additional tasks required by the manager.
What youll bring:
5 years of programming in server-side applications and components.
Experience designing prototyping building and debugging applications that are highly scalable distributed reliable and resilient.
Solid hands-on low-level technical expertise in Linux systems troubleshooting and profiling.
Experience in distributed systems Linux networking stack and computer systems programming Kong works with APIs on both L7 and L4 transports and protocols so this expertise and knowledge are required.
Comfortable working with a remotely distributed team.
Strong sense of ownership and excellent verbal and written communication skills -- engineers at Kong write the documentation for their products
Familiarity with AI LLM concepts and applications development
Hands on experience with Rust
Bonus Points:
Hands on experience with NGINX/OpenResty/Kong/LuaJIT.
Hands on experience with Envoy or Istio.
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About Kong:
Kong Inc. a leading developer of API and AI connectivity technologies is building the infrastructure that powers the agentic era. trusted by the Fortune 500 and startups alike Kongs unified API and AI platform Kong Konnect enables organizations to secure manage accelerate govern and monetize the flow of intelligence across APIs and AI models. For more information visit .
Required Experience:
Senior IC
Key Skills
- Spring
- .NET
- C/C++
- Go
- React
- OOP
- C#
- AWS
- Data Structures
- Software Development
- Java
- Distributed Systems
About Company
Kong is the most widely adopted API gateway and service mesh, powering the world’s APIs for modern architectures. Accelerate development and productivity today!
