16 days ago
Hungary (city not specified)Senior
Responsibilities
- Design, implement, and maintain backend microservices and APIs for usage metering, billing, invoicing, and analytics.
- Build AI Cost Management features for tracking, attributing, budgeting, and limiting LLM token usage and spend.
- Architect real-time backend systems that process millions of events per second.
- Collaborate with Product and Engineering to define requirements and deliver customer-focused solutions.
- Optimize database performance and maintain data integrity, reliability, and security across distributed systems.
- Integrate third-party services such as Stripe and CRM systems for billing and reporting.
- Monitor, troubleshoot, and provide on-call support for production services.
- Apply cloud-native, DevOps, and CI/CD best practices and write automated tests.
Requirements
- 5+ years of professional software development experience.
- Professional experience with Go and Node.js.
- Proven experience building scalable backend services and maintaining production systems at scale.
- Strong understanding of distributed systems, APIs, and database optimization.
- Experience or familiarity with Kubernetes, Docker, ClickHouse, Kafka, and event-driven architectures.
- Contributions to open source projects.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
- Familiarity with LLM APIs, token-based pricing, AI gateway or observability tooling, and developer-focused products is preferred.
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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.