Senior Software Engineer - AI Gateway
Kong Inc.API Management company
Shanghai, ChinaSenior
Tiger Global Management
Balderton Capital
Andreessen Horowitz
Index Ventures
Teachers' Venture Growth
137 Ventures
Software Engineering
About the role
TL;DR
Design and implement API management software and innovative features.
- •As a Systems Engineer in the Core Team, you will be working on core features such as proxying capabilities, load balancing, and database support with forward-thinking.
- •You will be responsible for building foundations for other teams and customers, discovering and producing cutting edge industry trends and use-cases.
- •Key Responsibilities Responsible for designing, building and maintaining API management software and its underlying stack.
- •Architecture, design, and implement new innovative features including proxying capabilities, load balancing, databases support that extend Kong’s offering.
- •Bugs troubleshooting, performance tuning and low-level optimizations.
- •Engage with open source community and extend Kong core to support the latest industry trends.
- •Fill the gaps between Kong and third-party deployment platforms and tooling.
- •And any additional tasks required by manager.
- •Requirements 5+ years of programming in server-side applications and components.
- •Experience designing, prototyping, building and debugging applications that are highly scalable, distributed, reliable and resilient.
- •Solid hands-on low-level technical expertise in Linux systems troubleshooting, and profiling.
- •Experience in distributed systems, Linux networking stack and computer systems programming, Kong works with APIs on both L7 and L4 transports and protocols, so this expertise and knowledge are required.
- •Comfortable working with a remotely distributed team.
- •Strong sense of ownership and excellent verbal and written communication skills -
- •engineers at Kong write the documentation for their products Familiarity with AI LLM concepts and applications development
Required skills
Linux
Nice-to-have skills
NginxRust
Domain expertise
ai
Tech stack
LinuxNginxRust