Senior Software Engineer Konnect Platform

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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.

The Platform Team is the backbone of Kongs infrastructure building and maintaining the critical services that power the entire Kong ecosystem. Our team owns authentication authorization search notifications audit logging and other foundational services that ensure Kongs products are secure scalable and reliable. These services process millions of requests daily and are trusted by some of the worlds most innovative companies.

About the role:

The Senior Software Engineer will be a key contributor to the Platform Team focusing on building and maintaining our search infrastructure notification systems and audit logging services. Youll design and implement scalable high-performance backend services that handle millions of events and queries daily. Additionally youll work on developing Model Context Protocol (MCP) tools that extend and enhance Kongs AI platform capabilities. This role requires deep expertise in distributed systems Golang and building resilient backend services that operate at scale.

What youll do:

• Design develop and maintain search infrastructure and query systems that power Kongs product discovery and analytics capabilities.

• Build and optimize notification services that deliver real-time alerts and updates across Kongs platform.

• Develop and enhance audit logging systems that capture store and query critical security and compliance data.

• Create MCP (Model Context Protocol) tools and integrations that extend platform AI functionality and enable new AI workflows.

• Architect and implement scalable distributed backend services using Golang and modern cloud-native technologies.

• Collaborate with product managers designers and other engineers to define requirements and deliver high-quality features.

• Write clean maintainable well-tested code with comprehensive unit integration and end-to-end tests.

• Participate in code reviews design discussions and technical planning sessions.

• Optimize service performance reliability and scalability through profiling monitoring and iterative improvements.

• Contribute to the platform teams technical roadmap and help define architecture and best practices.

• Mentor junior engineers and contribute to a culture of engineering excellence.

• Participate in on-call rotation to ensure high availability of platform services.

What youll bring:

• 5 years of professional software engineering experience building backend services and distributed systems.

• Strong proficiency in Golang with experience building production services at scale.

• Deep understanding of distributed systems concepts including consistency availability partitioning and consensus.

• Experience designing and implementing search infrastructure using technologies like Elasticsearch OpenSearch Solr or similar.

• Experience building event-driven architectures and notification systems.

• Strong knowledge of database systems (SQL and NoSQL) and data modeling.

• Experience with API design and development (REST gRPC).

• Solid understanding of microservices architecture and container orchestration (Docker Kubernetes).

• Experience with message queues and event streaming platforms (Kafka RabbitMQ NATS or similar).

• Strong computer science fundamentals including data structures algorithms and system design.

• Experience with Continuous Integration/Delivery concepts and tools such as GitHub Actions or Jenkins.

• Demonstrated skills using code repositories and collaboration tools (GitHub JIRA Confluence or similar).

• Experience working with globally distributed teams.

• Excellent problem-solving skills and ability to debug complex distributed systems issues.

Bonus Points:

• Experience with Model Context Protocol (MCP) or similar extensibility frameworks.

• Experience building compliance and audit logging systems for enterprise or regulated environments.

• Knowledge of observability and monitoring practices (Prometheus Grafana Datadog ELK stack).

• Experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools such as Terraform or Pulumi.

• Experience with Cloud Platforms such as AWS GCP or Azure.

• Familiarity with authentication and authorization systems (OAuth 2.0 OIDC JWT).

• Experience with high-throughput low-latency systems and performance optimization.

• Experience with rate limiting throttling and quota management systems.

• Knowledge of security best practices for backend services.

• Experience with service mesh technologies (Istio Linkerd).

• Contributions to open-source projects or active involvement in the developer community.

• Background in SRE practices and building reliable self-healing systems.

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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