Staff Software Engineer, AI Gateway

Kong
Shanghai
Workplace: OnsiteFull timeFunction: Software EngineeringExperience: 10+ yearsSkills: ["Ownership","Communication","Documentation","Remote collaboration","Problem-solving"]

Join Kong's Core Team as a Staff Software Engineer focusing on AI Gateway and API management. You will design, build, and optimize highly scalable, distributed systems in a Linux environment, contribute to proxying, load balancing, and database support, engage with open source communities, and help bridge Kong with third-party deployments while shaping future AI-enabled connectivity.

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Kong
4 months ago

Staff Software Engineer, AI Gateway

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Job Summary

Join Kong's Core Team as a Staff Software Engineer focusing on AI Gateway and API management. You will design, build, and optimize highly scalable, distributed systems in a Linux environment, contribute to proxying, load balancing, and database support, engage with open source communities, and help bridge Kong with third-party deployments while shaping future AI-enabled connectivity.
Location: Shanghai
Workplace: Onsite
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Software Engineering
Seniority: Sr. Manager level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Design, build and maintain API management software and its underlying stack
  • •Architect, design, and implement new features including proxying, load balancing, and database support
  • •Troubleshoot bugs, tune performance, and perform low-level optimizations; engage with the open source community
  • •Bridge Kong with third-party deployment platforms and tooling
  • •Undertake additional tasks as required by management

Key Requirements

  • •10+ years of programming in server-side applications and components
  • •Experience designing, prototyping, building and debugging highly scalable, distributed, reliable and resilient applications
  • •Solid hands-on Linux systems troubleshooting and profiling
  • •Experience in distributed systems and Linux networking stack with APIs on L7 and L4 transports
  • •Comfortable working with a remotely distributed team
Experience:10+ yearsOpen sourceDistributed systemsAPIAI
Skills:OwnershipCommunicationDocumentationRemote collaborationProblem-solving
Tech Stack:LuaNGINXOpenRestyKongLuaJITRustEnvoyIstio

Company Brief

Kong
Provides a cloud-native API and service connectivity platform (Kong Gateway, Konnect, Kuma, Insomnia) that secures, manages, and observes APIs and microservices for enterprises across cloud and hybrid environments.
Industry: API Platforms
Company Size: Large (251 to 1,000 employees)
Revenue: USD 100M to 250M
Growth: Scaleup
Valuation: Unicorn (USD 1B+)
Funding: Series E+
Headquarters: San Francisco, United States
Founded: 2017
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