13 days ago
Base Salary
$250k - $270k/yr
Responsibilities
- Architect and own end-to-end full-stack marketplace surfaces, including high-performance tools, REST API infrastructure, and developer onboarding systems.
- Build agent-native user experiences, MCP server capabilities, sandboxed test environments, and CLI/SDK generation workflows.
- Develop reliable infrastructure for identity verification, usage attribution, metering, billing, and multi-party settlement.
- Partner with gateway runtime, security plugin, and core engineering teams to integrate marketplace capabilities.
- Lead architecture reviews, prevent distributed-system scaling bottlenecks, and promote a zero-technical-debt culture.
- Mentor engineers and translate ambiguous product initiatives into modular, shippable technical milestones.
- Write engineering documentation and product specifications throughout the technical lifecycle.
Requirements
- 7+ years of experience engineering enterprise-grade production software and designing, building, and supporting complex distributed systems from scratch.
- Master-level expertise with a modern backend stack, such as Golang or similar systems languages.
- Deep architectural expertise in API infrastructure, Kubernetes, and cloud-native patterns.
- Extensive hands-on experience developing autonomous agent applications, tool-calling systems, prompt loops, or systems designed for machine consumption.
- Experience with multi-tenant architectures, usage-based metering pipelines, billing integrations, or secure data exchange layers.
- Strong written communication and technical articulation skills.
- Comfort working in remote, globally distributed engineering environments; West Coast or Bay Area alignment is preferred.
Benefits
- Remote, globally distributed work environment with West Coast/Bay Area alignment preferred.
Tech Stack
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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.