🛠 Tech Stack

💼 About This Role

You'll design and build core features for Kong's API management platform, including proxying, load balancing, and database support. Your work directly impacts global adoption as you engage with the open-source community and implement cutting-edge industry trends. This role offers the chance to shape the infrastructure powering the agentic era.

🎯 What You'll Do

• Design, build, and maintain API management software and its stack
• Architect and implement new features like proxying and load balancing
• Troubleshoot bugs, tune performance, and optimize low-level systems
• Integrate Kong with third-party deployment platforms and tooling

📋 Requirements

• 10+ years of programming in server-side applications and components
• Experience designing highly scalable, distributed, reliable applications
• Solid Linux systems troubleshooting and profiling expertise
• Experience in distributed systems, Linux networking stack, and systems programming

✨ Nice to Have

• Hands-on with NGINX/OpenResty/Kong/LuaJIT
• Experience with Envoy or Istio
• Familiarity with Rust

🎁 Benefits & Perks

• 🏖️ Remote-friendly culture (team distributed globally)
• 📝 Write product documentation as part of engineering team
• 🌐 Open source community engagement
• 📚 Work on cutting-edge AI and API technologies
• 🚀 Impact on Fortune 500 and startups alike