8 months ago
Bengaluru, IndiaMid Level
Responsibilities
- Design, develop, and operate distributed Managed Gateways systems resilient to regional and zonal outages.
- Own major features and modules from technical design through implementation and production rollout.
- Build control-plane components and services for Dedicated Cloud Gateways and Serverless Gateways.
- Collaborate with Product and Engineering teams to deliver scalable API platform features.
- Participate in on-call rotations, operate production services, and drive reliability improvements.
- Develop automated tests, observability hooks, and tooling to improve reliability and reduce toil.
- Lead technical execution, contribute to the technical roadmap, mentor engineers, and assist with hiring.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s or master’s degree in Computer Science or a related field.
- 5+ years of experience building high-performance software, ideally in infrastructure or platform engineering.
- Strong experience with Golang and cloud-native architectures.
- Deep understanding of distributed systems and networking, including L4/L7, DNS, TLS/SSL, and HTTP.
- Hands-on experience with at least one major cloud platform and Kubernetes.
- Experience building and standardizing APIs, creating API workflows, and operating systems with 99.99%+ uptime SLAs.
- Ability to debug complex systems from packet- and protocol-level details through high-level architecture.
- Knowledge of observability and monitoring practices for high availability and performance.
- Strong communication, collaboration, ownership, and technical leadership skills.
- Preferred experience with Nginx, Envoy, HAProxy, API management, developer platforms, multi-cloud networking, or open-source infrastructure and networking projects.
Tech Stack
About 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.