WHAT YOU’LL BRING
THE TOOLKIT
5+ years of experience working in a team environment to develop, deliver, and maintain complex, distributed software solutions.
Solid proficiency in Go (Golang) and designing relational database data models.
Practical experience building, debugging, and maintaining microservices architectures at scale.
Demonstrated experience performing DevOps monitoring, observability, and supporting a large-scale SaaS platform running on Kubernetes and containerized environments.
Working knowledge of L4/L7 proxies such as Nginx, HA-proxy, or Envoy.
Firm grasp of API lifecycle management, design standards, and testing frameworks (TDD/automated testing).
Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
THE KONG DNA
Ownership: You act as a driver, not a passenger, and take complete accountability for the quality of your systems and outcomes.
Urgency: You thrive in a high-growth environment, iterating quickly and pushing for results with passion and grit.
Collaboration: You break down silos, communicate transparently, and model the true spirit of a team player.
BONUS POINTS
Deep experience with Go standards and writing idiomatic, highly optimized Go.
Direct experience with Nginx, OpenResty, LuaJIT, or the Kong gateway core.
Experience with cloud-native observability stacks, specifically Datadog or OpenTelemetry.
Active contributions to open-source software projects.
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About Kong
Kong Inc., the AI Connectivity Company, is building the connectivity layer of AI. Trusted by the Fortune 500® and AI-native startups alike, Kong’s unified API and AI platform enables organizations to secure, manage, accelerate, govern, and monetize the flow of intelligence across APIs and AI traffic — on any model, any cloud. For more information, visit www.konghq.com http://www.konghq.com.
