Senior Software Engineer, Kong

• 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 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

• 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
• Work closely with engineering teams to architecture, 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 manager