3 days ago
Milan, ItalySenior
Responsibilities
- Design, develop, and maintain Kong Gateway Operator and Kong Ingress Controller for reliability, performance, and scalability.
- Contribute to open-source projects and engage with the community around API connectivity.
- Write clean, efficient, and well-tested Golang code using automated testing and peer reviews.
- Optimize high-throughput, low-latency distributed systems.
- Build and maintain integrations with Kubernetes and AWS, GCP, and Azure.
- Participate in technical design discussions, solution architecture, and technical roadmaps.
- Troubleshoot complex system issues and support high availability and resilience.
- Mentor junior engineers and collaborate with engineering, product, and DevOps teams.
Requirements
- 5+ years of software engineering experience with a strong focus on backend development.
- Proficiency in Golang or strong experience in another modern programming language with the ability to ramp up in Golang.
- Deep knowledge of Kubernetes and the broader cloud-native ecosystem.
- Experience designing and building high-performance, scalable distributed systems.
- Familiarity with APIs, microservices, and L4/L7 networking concepts.
- Understanding of observability, monitoring, and debugging techniques in cloud environments.
- Experience with AWS, GCP, or Azure.
- Ability to contribute to and navigate open-source projects.
- Strong problem-solving, independent-working, communication, knowledge-sharing, and mentoring skills.
Benefits
- The position is open to candidates located in Milan, Italy.
- The role is part of a distributed team.
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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.