Are you ready to unlock intelligence?
If you don’t think you meet all of the criteria below but are still interested in the job, please apply. Nobody checks every box – we’re looking for candidates that are particularly strong in a few areas, and have some interest and capabilities in others.
About the Role:
Kong is an open-source project with a global adoption around the world. Developers and architects are adopting Kong in production among a large variety of use-cases, and actively help make Kong a better product with their feedback and contributions.
As a Systems Engineer in the Core Team, you will be working on core features such as proxying capabilities, load balancing, and database support with forward-thinking. You will be responsible for building foundations for other teams and customers, discovering and producing cutting edge industry trends and use-cases.
What You’ll Do:
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Responsible for designing, building and maintaining API management software and its underlying stack.
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Architecture, design, and implement new innovative features including proxying capabilities, load balancing, databases support that extend Kong’s offering.
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Bugs troubleshooting, performance tuning and low-level optimizations. Engage with open source community and extend Kong core to support the latest industry trends.
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Fill the gaps between Kong and third-party deployment platforms and tooling.
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And any additional tasks required by manager.
What You’ll Bring:
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5+ years of programming in server-side applications and components.
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Experience designing, prototyping, building and debugging applications that are highly scalable, distributed, reliable and resilient.
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Solid hands-on low-level technical expertise in Linux systems troubleshooting, and profiling.
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Experience in distributed systems, Linux networking stack and computer systems programming, Kong works with APIs on both L7 and L4 transports and protocols, so this expertise and knowledge are required.
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Comfortable working with a remotely distributed team.
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Strong sense of ownership and excellent verbal and written communication skills — engineers at Kong write the documentation for their products
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Familiarity with AI LLM concepts and applications development
Bonus Points:
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Hands on experience with NGINX/OpenResty/Kong/LuaJIT.
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Hands on experience with Envoy or Istio.
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Hands on experience with Rust
About Kong:
Kong Inc., the AI Connectivity Company, is building the connectivity layer of AI. Trusted by the Fortune 500® and AI-native startups alike, Kong’s unified API and AI platform enables organizations to secure, manage, accelerate, govern, and monetize the flow of intelligence across APIs and AI traffic — on any model, any cloud. For more information, visit www.konghq.com.