2 days ago
Toronto, CanadaSenior
Responsibilities
- Architect and scale microservices powering Kong Konnect’s cloud-hosted control plane.
- Design, implement, and maintain performant, low-latency APIs and services.
- Solve moderately complex technical problems while preventing technical debt.
- Write robust automated tests to prevent regressions and ensure product stability.
- Own service reliability and uptime in production through an active on-call rotation.
- Collaborate with Product Management, Solutions Architects, and cross-functional engineering teams on business features.
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience developing, delivering, and maintaining complex distributed software solutions in a team environment.
- Solid proficiency in Go and relational database data modeling.
- Practical experience building, debugging, and maintaining microservices architectures at scale.
- Experience with DevOps monitoring, observability, and supporting large-scale SaaS platforms on Kubernetes and containerized environments.
- Working knowledge of L4/L7 proxies such as Nginx, HAProxy, or Envoy.
- Knowledge of API lifecycle management, API design standards, and automated testing frameworks.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills.
- Preferred experience includes idiomatic and optimized Go, Nginx, OpenResty, LuaJIT, the Kong gateway core, Datadog, OpenTelemetry, and open-source contributions.
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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.