Senior Software Engineer, Kong

API Gateway

Salary not provided
Python
Linux
Ruby
Rust
Perl
Lua
Senior level
Remote in Canada
Kong

Microservice API gateway

Open for applications

Kong

Microservice API gateway

501-1000 employees

B2BEnterpriseAPICloud Computing

Open for applications

Salary not provided
Python
Linux
Ruby
Rust
Perl
Lua
Senior level
Remote in Canada

501-1000 employees

B2BEnterpriseAPICloud Computing

Company mission

To build the nervous system that will safely and reliably connect all of humankind!

Role

Who you are

  • We’re looking for candidates that are particularly strong in a few areas, and have some interest and capabilities in others
  • Comfortable working in a remote distributed team, with minimal supervision
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills, both as a means to work with others and to write documentation
  • Solid hands-on low-level technical expertise for Linux systems troubleshooting, and profiling
  • Experience programming low-level networking systems:
  • Nginx and/or Openresty are preferred but others like Apache are also valid
  • Experience in any of the following:
  • IdP/AuthZ systems and integration, monitoring and profiling systems, network traffic inspection
  • At least 2 years of experience working with Rust
  • Experience designing, prototyping, building and debugging applications that are highly scalable, distributed, reliable and resilient
  • Familiarity with a scripting language. Lua would be the ideal, but Perl, Python, or Ruby also serve
  • You've spent time developing and supporting a large scale SaaS platform
  • You have at least 5-ish years working in a team to develop, package and deliver server-side applications and components

Desirable

  • Experience with NGINX/OpenResty/Kong/LuaJIT
  • Experience with Envoy or Istio
  • Understanding of VM implementations like eBPF and/or WASM

What the job involves

  • Kong is an Open-Core project. Its foundation is the Open-source API Gateway. On top of that there is an Enterprise Gateway, which extends and improves it. The Enterprise Gateway is the central piece of the Kong ecosystem, which includes other pieces of software and infrastructure that add even more value
  • Your main responsibility will be developing, maintaining and extending the Kong Gateway, on both its Open-source and the Enterprise versions
  • You will engage with the Open Source community, and work closely with other teams in the company to improve it
  • You will be responsible for building foundations for other teams and customers, discovering and producing cutting edge industry trends and use-cases
  • Work with the Product management team to identify and implement enhancements
  • Propose and Implement POCs and prototypes for networking software in rust
  • Work closely with engineering teams to architect, design, and understand upcoming new features
  • Bug fixing, performance tuning, and low-level optimizations
  • Engage with the open-source community
  • Provide help to the support and escalation teams
  • Mentoring and pairing with other team members
  • And any additional tasks required by the manager

Our take

Kong provides a cutting-edge API and service lifecycle management platform tailored for modern architectures, such as microservices, containers, cloud, and serverless environments. With a focus on flexibility, scalability, speed, and performance, Kong allows developers and Global 5000 enterprises to securely connect and orchestrate microservice APIs for today's sophisticated applications.

The core products offered by Kong include Kong, an open-source API and Microservices management solution Galileo, a platform for API analytics and debugging; Gelato, a platform for creating developed portals for PIs and Microservices; and API Marketplace, a hub for discovering and publishing cloud APIs. Additionally, the recent introduction of a new collection of AI plug-ins in Kong Gateway 3.6 enhances the platform's capabilities further, reinforcing its commitment to innovation and advancement.

In pursuit of growth, the company is prioritizing expanding its marketing efforts, bolstering its customer service team, and accelerating product development. By focusing on these key areas, Kong aims to continue providing unparalleled solutions and support to its ever-expanding user base in the rapidly evolving landscape of modern application development.

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Insights

Led by a woman
Top investors

Few candidates hear
back within 2 weeks

23% female employees

2% employee growth in 12 months

Company

Funding (last 2 of 7 rounds)

Aug 2024

$80m

SERIES E

Feb 2021

$100m

SERIES D

Total funding: $249.1m

Company benefits

  • Flexible time off: Take time to take care of yourself and the things that matter most
  • Stock options: We want you to share in our success. That's why stock options are offered to most Kongers
  • U-First Fridays: Get 4 hours a month for continuous learning with a book, podcast, or course of your choice
  • Virtual events: Stay connected with Donut chats, trivia, fitness challenges, guided meditations, and more
  • Dedicated unplug days: Silence those notifications. Enjoy some well-deserved long weekend where the entire team unplugs
  • Home office stipend: Build a home office environment tailored to support your productivity

Company values

  • Global: Be inclusive. We work together from anywhere to achieve our common goals. Our differences make us stronger
  • Real: Be authentic. We are genuine, principled and confident without arrogance. Show respect and kindness, especially in tough moments
  • Unstoppable: Be relentlessly resourceful. We work with purpose, obsession and grit. It takes muscle to do hard things and doing hard things build muscle
  • Champions: Be customer obsessed. We care. Customers are everything, we put them at the center of everything you do. We are all empowered to make an impact
  • Explorers: Be curious. We value ideas over hierarchy. Never accept the status quo. We make bold bets, fail, and learn everyday. There is always a way
  • Own it: Be an owner. We are drivers not passengers and own the quality and outcomes of our work

Company HQ

The East Cut, San Francisco, CA

Leadership

Previously founded Mashape API Marketplace. Before Mashape, Augusto was an SF homeless immigrant from Italy.

Janet Phillips

(Vice President of People)

Previously Director at SonicWALL for 5 years and Senior Director at Symantec for 7 years.

Previously co-founded MemboxX, an online service for storing documents and small pieces of personal data.

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