Senior Software Engineer
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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.
This is a unique opportunity to join early in the product evolution of a key Kong growth bet that is already clocking double-digit YoY adoption. Youll work on distributed systems multi-cloud networking and API infrastructure that form the backbone of modern digital businesses.
As a Senior Software Engineer youll not only build critical components of the Managed Gateways platform but also take ownership of major features end-to-end lead technical execution within the team and mentor peers. Youll collaborate with product managers architects and other engineers to shape the technical direction and ensure the platform delivers 99.99% uptime performance and developer delight.
What Youll Do
Design develop and operate highly available distributed systems for Managed Gateways ensuring resilience to regional and zonal outages.
Own and lead delivery of key features/modules driving them from design through implementation and production rollout.
Build microservices and control-plane components that power Kongs Dedicated Cloud Gateways and Serverless Gateways.
Partner with Product and Engineering teams to deliver new features at scale that directly impact customers ability to build secure and manage APIs.
Participate in on-call rotations owning services in production and driving reliability improvements.
Write automated tests observability hooks and tooling to ensure reliability and reduce toil.
Assist in the hiring process and help grow and mentor engineers on the team.
Contribute to shaping the technical roadmap for Managed Gateways bringing in ideas from infrastructure networking and platform engineering.
Work in a high-velocity pre-IPO environment balancing innovation with reliability and customer impact.
What Youll Bring
Bachelors or Masters degree in Computer Science or related field.
5 years of experience building high-performance software ideally in infrastructure or platform engineering.
Strong experience with Golang
Deep understanding of distributed systems networking (L4/L7 DNS TLS/SSL HTTP) and cloud-native architectures.
Hands-on experience with at least one major cloud (AWS GCP Azure) and container orchestration (Kubernetes).
Experience building APIs standardizing APIs in large organizations and creating API workflows.
Experience designing and operating systems to deliver 99.99% uptime SLAs.
Proven ability to debug complex systems from bit-and-bytes level (packets protocols) to high-level design.
Knowledge of observability and monitoring practices to ensure high availability and performance.
Strong communication and collaboration skills with the ability to work across teams and geographies.
Strong sense of ownership with experience driving features end-to-end and influencing technical direction.
Bonus Points
Experience working with or contributing to L4/L7 proxies such as Nginx Envoy or HAProxy.
Background in API management API workflows or developer platforms.
Experience with multi-cloud networking.
Contributions to open-source infrastructure or networking projects.
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!
