
Kong
Kong builds an open-source and commercial platform for API and AI connectivity, including Kong Gateway, Kong Konnect, and service mesh tools (Kuma/Kong Mesh) to secure, manage, and observe APIs and LLM traffic across clouds. It sells subscriptions and cloud services for API lifecycle management, security, and traffic governance to enterprises and platform teams. Founded in 2017 and headquartered in San Francisco, Kong is privately held.
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Kong is seeking a Senior Security Engineer to serve as a Security Champion on its Runtimes team, securing AI and API Gateway features through hands-on engineering and security practices. The role combines application security, vulnerability management, threat modeling, and software development focused on emerging AI threats.
Build high-performance Go runtimes, SDKs, CLI tools, and declarative state-management systems that power Kong’s API management platform. You’ll solve complex APIOps and infrastructure-as-code challenges for large-scale, multi-tenant environments.
Lead the architecture and development of a zero-to-one agent marketplace that enables machine-to-machine commerce across discovery, identity, billing, and settlement. This senior technical leadership role combines full-stack marketplace development, agent-native experiences, and highly reliable distributed transaction infrastructure.
Join Kong’s global Platform SRE team to build, operate, and scale a multi-region SaaS platform across AWS, GCP, and Azure. This hands-on role focuses on Kubernetes infrastructure, automation, observability, reliability, and production operations at enterprise scale.
Build and operate highly available distributed systems powering Kong’s Dedicated Cloud Gateways and Serverless Gateways. This role owns major features end to end while shaping platform direction, reliability, and multi-cloud networking.
Lead enterprise customers and partners through complex API, AI, DevOps, and systems-integration challenges as a Staff Solutions Engineer at Kong. You will design demonstrations, guide architecture decisions, and help customers adopt Kong’s platform.
Staff Software Engineer responsible for architecting Kong Identity’s global, multi-tenant identity platform, with a focus on advanced authentication, authorization, federation, security, and compliance. The role leads technical strategy for high-scale identity infrastructure and mentors engineering teams.
Lead technical sales for Kong’s API Management and Connectivity solutions across enterprise and strategic accounts in France. You’ll guide customers from discovery and demos through proof-of-concept, production, onboarding, and expansion.
Lead reliability and enterprise implementation engineering for Kong’s multi-cloud Managed Gateways platform. You’ll design resilient infrastructure, guide an SRE team, and serve as the senior technical authority for complex customer deployments.
Senior Solutions Engineer supporting enterprise customers through technical evaluations, proof-of-concepts, implementations, and production adoption of Kong’s API Management platform. The role partners with sales and internal teams to drive new business, expand existing accounts, and deliver customer success.
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