Security Engineer

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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.

About the Role

At Kong were building the future of API connectivity and AI infrastructure for the worlds most innovative companies. As we continue to scale globally security remains at the heart of everything we do.

Were looking for a highly motivated Security Engineer to join our growing team and help protect the platforms systems and services that power Kongs products and internal operations. This is an exciting opportunity to work across cloud infrastructure production systems and engineering teams to build security into every layer of our business.

Youll play a key role in identifying risks strengthening our security posture and helping ensure our customers can trust Kong to power their most critical workloads.

What Youll Be Doing

• Design implement and improve security controls across Kongs cloud infrastructure and internal systems

• Partner closely with Engineering DevOps and Platform teams to embed security best practices into development and deployment workflows

• Monitor detect investigate and respond to security incidents across cloud and production environments

• Perform security assessments vulnerability management and risk analysis across infrastructure and applications

• Improve identity and access management secrets management and privileged access controls

• Support compliance initiatives and help maintain security standards across the business

• Build and improve automation for security monitoring alerting and remediation

• Help define and drive Kongs long-term security strategy as we continue to scale globally

What Youll Bring

• Strong experience in Security Engineering Cloud Security Infrastructure Security or related areas

• Hands-on experience with cloud platforms particularly AWS

• Strong understanding of Linux systems administration and security

• Experience securing production environments distributed systems and modern SaaS platforms

• Knowledge of networking fundamentals IAM encryption logging and security monitoring

• Experience with infrastructure as code CI/CD pipelines and DevSecOps practices

• Familiarity with containerization and orchestration technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes

• Experience with vulnerability management incident response and security tooling

• Strong scripting or programming skills (Python Go Bash or similar preferred)

• Excellent communication skills and the ability to work effectively across distributed teams

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 .

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