2 days ago
Milan, ItalySenior
Responsibilities
- Design and implement core Kong Gateway Control Plane features primarily in Golang.
- Own the full lifecycle of services, including architectural design, implementation, deployment, and operational excellence.
- Lead technical discussions and architectural decisions supporting distributed systems and 99.99% uptime.
- Influence the technical roadmap for cloud-native components and advocate for engineering best practices.
- Mentor engineers through code reviews and design sessions.
- Collaborate with product managers and engineering teams to deliver solutions for global users.
- Resolve complex bugs and performance bottlenecks in networking and configuration management components.
Requirements
- Significant professional experience writing and deploying production services in Golang.
- Deep understanding of distributed systems, microservices architecture, and API design principles.
- Hands-on experience with Kubernetes and the cloud-native ecosystem.
- Proficiency with relational databases such as PostgreSQL.
- Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure-as-code practices.
- Strong ownership, communication, collaboration, and ability to work effectively in a fast-paced environment.
- Bonus: experience with API gateways, service mesh such as Kuma, networking technologies, open-source contributions, Lua, NGINX internals, or large-scale SaaS platforms.
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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.