• Design, develop, and maintain microservices that power Kong Konnect, the Service Connectivity Platform
• Working closely with Product Management and teams across Engineering, you will develop software that has a direct impact on our customers’ business and Kong’s success
• Implement and maintain services that power Konnect, such as Kong’s cloud-hosted control plane
• Contribute to Kong’s Cloud and Enterprise services
• Design and implement solutions to technical problems of moderate complexity
• Support those services in production by participating in an on-call rotation
• Write automated tests to ensure behavior of code and avoid regressions
• Mentor other team members

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
• Home office stipend: Build a home office environment tailored to support your productivity
• Dedicated unplug days: Silence those notifications. Enjoy some well-deserved long weekend where the entire team unplugs- Experience in Go
• Experience with working or developing L4/L7 proxies such as Nginx, HA-proxy, Envoy, or others
• Experience developing and supporting a large scale SaaS platform; with working knowledge of containerization and Kubernetes
• Expertise in designing and writing APIs, and a firm grasp of API lifecycle management
• Experience designing, prototyping, building and debugging microservices architectures and distributed systems
• Understanding of and development with git and Github workflows
• Expertise in test-driven development and automated testing
• 5+ years working in a team to develop, deliver, and maintain complex software solutions
• Experience performing DevOps monitoring and observability
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Expertise with data modeling in relational databases
• Deep experience with Go; effective go standards
• Experience with NGINX/OpenResty/Kong/LuaJIT
• Experience with Datadog/OpenTelemetry
• Experience contributing to Open Source Software projects