8 days ago
Bengaluru, IndiaSenior
Responsibilities
- Design and optimize Go algorithms for state diffing, validation, and real-time drift detection across large-scale multi-tenant API topologies.
- Architect and maintain high-performance Go SDKs and core libraries for Kong’s Konnect SaaS platform.
- Define extensible REST API contracts and build spec-driven tooling using OpenAPI and AsyncAPI.
- Develop CLI-first developer experiences for human workflows and high-concurrency CI/CD automation.
- Build and extend Terraform providers and integrate new runtime capabilities into the declarative management ecosystem.
- Implement comprehensive testing, benchmarking, robust architecture, mentoring, and cross-team technical collaboration.
Requirements
- 5+ years of software engineering experience delivering production-grade backend systems and developer tools using Go.
- Proven experience designing REST, gRPC, and OpenAPI schemas with attention to compatibility, versioning, and developer experience.
- Production experience with Terraform provider development, Kubernetes operators, or stateful CI/CD automation pipelines.
- Strong experience with clean code, unit testing, integration testing, end-to-end testing, benchmarking, and software architecture.
- Ability to communicate complex technical decisions, mentor junior engineers, and collaborate across backend and platform teams.
Benefits
- Work on open-source-adjacent products used by millions of developers and Fortune 500 enterprises.
- Solve challenging problems in declarative state synchronization, API governance, and distributed connectivity.
- Join a high-growth, pre-IPO company focused on API management and AI connectivity.
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.