Staff Software Engineer, Managed Gateways
Kong Inc.API Management company
Bangalore, IndiaLead
Tiger Global Management
Balderton Capital
Andreessen Horowitz
Index Ventures
Teachers' Venture Growth
137 Ventures
Software Engineering
About the role
TL;DR
Staff Software Engineer to build and own Kong's foundational cloud-native SaaS platform.
- •As a Staff Software Engineer on the Cloud Gateways team, you will define and build Kong's foundational cloud-native SaaS platform that powers its managed API and AI Gateway offerings.
- •You will solve complex engineering challenges spanning distributed systems, cloud infrastructure, and site reliability engineering.
- •Key Responsibilities Own the technical direction, architecture, and evolution of Cloud Gateways, designing highly available cloud-native infrastructure.
- •Drive availability, reliability, performance, and operational health of the platform, defining and meeting SLIs/SLOs.
- •Automate provisioning, lifecycle management, fleet-wide upgrades, and infrastructure orchestration.
- •Influence technical strategy and architectural direction across engineering organizations, mentoring engineers.
- •Requirements Experience building or operating large-scale multi-tenant SaaS platforms.
- •Significant experience designing, building, and operating large-scale distributed systems in production.
- •Strong software engineering skills with production experience in Golang.
- •Deep expertise in Kubernetes and at least one major public cloud provider (AWS, Azure, or GCP).
- •Strong understanding of networking fundamentals.
Required skills
GoKubernetesAWSGoogle CloudAzureTerraformDockerCI/CDPrometheusGrafanaDatadog
Nice-to-have skills
Compliance Management
Domain expertise
developer-toolsai
Tech stack
GoKubernetesAWSGoogle CloudAzureTerraformDockerCI/CDPrometheusGrafanaDatadogREST APIgRPC