Kong

Senior Software Engineer - AI Gateway

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1 month ago
Shanghai, ChinaSenior

Responsibilities

  • Design, build, and maintain API management software and its underlying stack.
  • Architect and implement proxying, load-balancing, database-support, and other core Kong features.
  • Troubleshoot bugs, tune performance, and perform low-level optimizations.
  • Extend Kong core to support industry trends and integrate with third-party deployment platforms and tooling.
  • Engage with the open-source community and write product documentation.

Requirements

  • 5+ years of programming experience in server-side applications and components.
  • Experience designing, prototyping, building, and debugging highly scalable, distributed, reliable, and resilient applications.
  • Hands-on expertise troubleshooting and profiling Linux systems.
  • Experience with distributed systems, the Linux networking stack, computer systems programming, and L4/L7 transports and protocols.
  • Familiarity with AI, LLM concepts, and application development.
  • Strong ownership, communication, documentation, and remote-collaboration skills.

Tech Stack

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About Kong

1,001-5,000 employees
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