Shanghai, Shanghai, China · On-site
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Skills: Server-side Programming, Distributed Systems, Linux Systems Troubleshooting, Linux Networking Stack, Computer Systems Programming
London, England, United Kingdom · On-site
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Skills: API Management, Microservices Architecture, Kubernetes, Cloud Technologies, AWS
Toronto, Ontario, Canada · On-site
$118k–$140k/yr
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Skills: TypeScript, Node.js, NestJS, PostgreSQL, REST APIs
Berlin, Germany · On-site
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Skills: API Management, Microservices Architecture, Kubernetes, Cloud Technologies, AWS
Toronto, Ontario, Canada · Hybrid
$115k–$200k/yr
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Skills: Golang, Distributed Systems, Elasticsearch, OpenSearch, Solr
Toronto, Ontario, Canada · On-site
$105k–$195k/yr
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Skills: Golang, Microservices, AWS, Kubernetes, API Design
Milan, Lombardy, Italy · On-site
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Skills: Go (Golang), Microservices Architecture, Relational Database Design, Kubernetes, DevOps Monitoring
Albany, New York, United States · Hybrid
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Skills: Sales Strategy, Sales Operations, Revenue Operations, GTM Design, Capacity Planning
Karnataka, India · Hybrid
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Skills: Golang, Infrastructure-as-Code, API Design, Cloud Platforms, CLI Development
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · Hybrid
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Skills: Next.js, TypeScript, Modern CSS, PayloadCMS, Headless CMS
London, England, United Kingdom · Remote OK
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Skills: REST APIs, Docker, Kubernetes, HTTP, AI Concepts
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · On-site
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Skills: API Development, API Gateway Configuration, Kubernetes, Technical Documentation, API Lifecycle Management
Singapore, Singapore · On-site
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Skills: CI/CD, Terraform, Chef, Puppet, Ansible
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · On-site
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Skills: Kubernetes, Terraform, Terragrunt, ArgoCD, Helm
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · On-site
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Skills: Kubernetes, Terraform, Terragrunt, ArgoCD, Go
Boston, Massachusetts, United States · On-site
$320k–$400k/yr
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Skills: Enterprise Sales, Account Management, Consultative Selling, Contract Negotiation, Pipeline Management
Austin, Texas, United States · On-site
$78k–$111k/yr
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Skills: Social Media Strategy, Content Creation, Copywriting, Ghostwriting, Short-form Video Production
Springfield, Illinois, United States · Remote OK
$180k–$240k/yr
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Skills: Commercial Sales, Account Management, Consultative Selling, Contract Negotiation, Pipeline Management
United States · Remote OK
$78k–$111k/yr
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Skills: AI Automation, Prompt Engineering, Workflow Assessment, Technical Documentation, AI Tool Testing
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · On-site
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Skills: Curriculum Development, Instructional Design, API Management, Linux, GitHub
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Design, build, and maintain API management software and its underlying stack, focusing on proxying, load balancing, and database support. Engage with the open-source community to extend Kong core and integrate with third-party deployment platforms.
Requires 5+ years of experience in server-side applications and distributed systems with deep expertise in Linux networking and systems programming. Familiarity with AI LLM concepts is required, while experience with NGINX, Envoy, or Rust is a bonus.
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.
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.
Responsible for designing, building and maintaining API management software and its underlying stack.
Architecture, design, and implement new innovative features including proxying capabilities, load balancing, databases support that extend Kong’s offering.
Bugs troubleshooting, performance tuning and low-level optimizations. Engage with open source community and extend Kong core to support the latest industry trends.
Fill the gaps between Kong and third-party deployment platforms and tooling.
And any additional tasks required by manager.
5+ years of programming in server-side applications and components.
Experience designing, prototyping, building and debugging applications that are highly scalable, distributed, reliable and resilient.
Solid hands-on low-level technical expertise in Linux systems troubleshooting, and profiling.
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.
Comfortable working with a remotely distributed team.
Strong sense of ownership and excellent verbal and written communication skills -- engineers at Kong write the documentation for their products
Familiarity with AI LLM concepts and applications development
Hands on experience with NGINX/OpenResty/Kong/LuaJIT.
Hands on experience with Envoy or Istio.
Hands on experience with Rust
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Kong Inc., a leading developer of API and AI connectivity technologies, is building the infrastructure that powers the agentic era. Trusted by the Fortune 500 and startups alike, Kong's unified API and AI platform, Kong Konnect, enables organizations to secure, manage, accelerate, govern, and monetize the flow of intelligence across APIs and AI models. For more information, visit www.konghq.com.
The Unified API and AI Platform. Unleash Intelligence.
No AI without APIs. Kong Inc., a leading developer of API and AI connectivity technologies, is building the connectivity layer for 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.
Offices: 44 Montgomery St, San Francisco, California 94104, US · Chicago, Illinois 60610, US · London, GB · Singapore, SG · Shanghai, CN
The Unified API and AI Platform. Unleash Intelligence.
No AI without APIs. Kong Inc., a leading developer of API and AI connectivity technologies, is building the connectivity layer for 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.
Offices: 44 Montgomery St, San Francisco, California 94104, US · Chicago, Illinois 60610, US · London, GB · Singapore, SG · Shanghai, CN
