🛠 Tech Stack

💼 About This Role

You'll architect and implement core features like proxying, load balancing, and database support for Kong's API gateway. Your work will directly impact millions of requests. You'll also engage with the open source community to drive industry trends.

🎯 What You'll Do

• Design and build API management software and underlying stack
• Architect and implement proxying, load balancing, and database features
• Troubleshoot bugs, tune performance, and optimize low-level systems
• Engage with open source community to support industry trends

📋 Requirements

• 5+ years of server-side programming experience
• 3+ years of Rust programming with async Rust
• Expertise in Linux systems troubleshooting and profiling
• Experience in distributed systems and networking stack

✨ Nice to Have

• Hands-on experience with Tokio
• Contributions to Rust open source projects
• Experience with NGINX/OpenResty/Kong/LuaJIT

🎁 Benefits & Perks

• 🏖️ Remote-friendly culture
• 📚 Documentation ownership – engineers write their own docs
• 🌍 Global open source community engagement
• 💡 Cutting-edge industry trends and use-cases