Staff Software Engineer, Konnect Core Platform
Kong Inc.API Management company
San Francisco, United StatesLead
Tiger Global Management
Balderton Capital
Andreessen Horowitz
Index Ventures
Teachers' Venture Growth
137 Ventures
Software Engineering
About the role
TL;DR
Architect and build a multi-tenant identity platform for Kong.
- •Kong is building the future of API management for developers.
- •As a Staff Software Engineer on the Konnect team, you’ll architect Kong Identity's multi-tenant identity platform supporting complex organizational hierarchies, cross-tenant isolation, and enterprise-grade security controls.
- •Key Responsibilities Design and implement advanced token management systems.
- •Lead development of Kong Identity's extensible claims engine.
- •Architect global identity infrastructure with edge optimization and intelligent token caching.
- •Design sophisticated rate limiting, anomaly detection, and fraud prevention systems.
- •Build enterprise identity federation capabilities.
- •Requirements 7+ years of experience building production identity platforms.
- •Deep expertise in advanced OAuth 2.0 extensions and OpenID Connect profiles.
- •Proven experience architecting multi-tenant identity platforms.
- •Strong background in cryptographic protocols.
- •Experience building identity platforms with sophisticated analytics and real-time monitoring.
Required skills
OAuthJWTSAMLMicroservicesSSOMFAOWASPSOC 2GDPRVaultREST APIgRPCWebSocketsLinuxGit
Nice-to-have skills
PythonJavaScriptTypeScriptGoBashReactNode.jsTerraformDockerKubernetes
Domain expertise
developer-toolscybersecurityai
Tech stack
PythonJavaScriptTypeScriptJavaGoBashReactNode.jsDjangoFlaskFastAPISpringExpressMicroservicesOAuthJWTSAMLOWASPSOC 2GDPRVaultSSOMFAGitLinuxREST APIgRPCWebSocketsAWSGoogle Cloud
