Software Engineering Manager Gateway Milan

milan - Italy

Monthly Salary: Not Disclosed

Posted on: Yesterday

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 be the leader of a team that consolidates core engineering and maintenance for the Kong on-premise and hybrid products. This team is the technical interface with key customers. You need strong technical leadership and a solid background so you are able to challenge and ensure that they are growing as engineers making valuable contributions and generally having a great experience in Kong. You will have the opportunity to influence the culture facilitate technical delivery and work with your team on strategy and execution.

What youll be doing:

Hire mentor and maintain healthy Engineering teams who value collaboration and innovation.
Manage shift scheduling measuring key performance indicators (KPIs) and training assure high-quality work and SLA.
Experience managing customer-facing engineering support roles and has a breadth of experience across infrastructure internal tooling platforms and on-premise products.
Solid technical expertise for Linux systems troubleshooting and profiling experience with debugging tools such as gdb systemtap tcpdump crash or other.
Own the customer escalation system technically including collaboration with other departments stakeholders (Sales Customer Experience Sales Engineering etc.) and where necessary customers.
Leadership experience displaying ability to organize and prioritize complex problem resolution and bug fixes debugging distributed services.
Organize and manage your teams to fit constructively into the org as a whole and help the company succeed.
Set and manage expectations with other engineering teams senior management and external stakeholders.
Give constructive feedback to Engineers conduct 1:1s address inter-personal issues and conduct reviews.

What youll bring:

5 years of managing maintenance or support teams and obsessing over
customer experience.
Experience doing reviews hiring comp.
Experience managing remote teams and distributed workforce.
Demonstrated leadership of Engineering teams.
On-premise cloud and hybrid product background.
Proven strong technical skills sets.
Business fluent English language skills both written and verbal.

Bonus Points:

Hands-on experience in building and maintaining NGINX/OpenResty backend services.
Experience working in an Enterprise Software company.
Experience in building and fostering an Open-Source community.
Experience working on an infrastructure product line.

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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:

Manager

Are you ready to power the Worlds connectionsIf 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.Abo...

Are you ready to power the Worlds connections

About the role:

What youll be doing:

Hire mentor and maintain healthy Engineering teams who value collaboration and innovation.
Manage shift scheduling measuring key performance indicators (KPIs) and training assure high-quality work and SLA.
Experience managing customer-facing engineering support roles and has a breadth of experience across infrastructure internal tooling platforms and on-premise products.
Solid technical expertise for Linux systems troubleshooting and profiling experience with debugging tools such as gdb systemtap tcpdump crash or other.
Own the customer escalation system technically including collaboration with other departments stakeholders (Sales Customer Experience Sales Engineering etc.) and where necessary customers.
Leadership experience displaying ability to organize and prioritize complex problem resolution and bug fixes debugging distributed services.
Organize and manage your teams to fit constructively into the org as a whole and help the company succeed.
Set and manage expectations with other engineering teams senior management and external stakeholders.
Give constructive feedback to Engineers conduct 1:1s address inter-personal issues and conduct reviews.

What youll bring:

5 years of managing maintenance or support teams and obsessing over
customer experience.
Experience doing reviews hiring comp.
Experience managing remote teams and distributed workforce.
Demonstrated leadership of Engineering teams.
On-premise cloud and hybrid product background.
Proven strong technical skills sets.
Business fluent English language skills both written and verbal.

Bonus Points:

Hands-on experience in building and maintaining NGINX/OpenResty backend services.
Experience working in an Enterprise Software company.
Experience in building and fostering an Open-Source community.
Experience working on an infrastructure product line.

#LI-JF1

About Kong:

Required Experience:

Manager

Key Skills

Hospitality Experience
Go
Management Experience
React
Redux
Node.js
AWS
Mechanical Engineering
Team Management
Leadership Experience
Mentoring
Distributed Systems

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Kong is the most widely adopted API gateway and service mesh, powering the world’s APIs for modern architectures. Accelerate development and productivity today!

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