Site Reliability Engineer 2, Managed Gateways

Kong
Bengaluru
Workplace: OnsiteFull timeFunction: DevOps, Cloud & InfrastructureExperience: 2+ yearsSkills: ["Accountability","Bias for action","Collaboration","Cross-functional collaboration"]

Own the reliability and performance of Kong’s critical Managed Gateways services, ensuring rock-solid availability, scalability, and uptime. Build automation for deploying and operating services across cloud environments, monitor health and performance, and lead incident resolution through on-call rotations. Create resilient tooling, prevent technical debt, and partner with engineering teams to design and deliver highly scalable services that minimize customer impact.

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Site Reliability Engineer 2, Managed Gateways

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Job Summary

Own the reliability and performance of Kong’s critical Managed Gateways services, ensuring rock-solid availability, scalability, and uptime. Build automation for deploying and operating services across cloud environments, monitor health and performance, and lead incident resolution through on-call rotations. Create resilient tooling, prevent technical debt, and partner with engineering teams to design and deliver highly scalable services that minimize customer impact.
Location: Bengaluru
Workplace: Onsite
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: DevOps, Cloud & Infrastructure
Seniority: Mid level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Implement and maintain automation for deploying and operating Kong’s Managed Gateways across cloud environments.
  • •Monitor system health, performance, and uptime, aiming for 99.99% availability for core infrastructure.
  • •Resolve complex production incidents and participate in on-call rotations to maintain service continuity.
  • •Build resilient tools and systems to improve reliability and operational efficiency.
  • •Collaborate with engineering teams to design, review, and implement resilient, highly scalable services.

Key Requirements

  • •2+ years applying Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) principles and practices in a production environment.
  • •Proficiency in at least one of Golang or Python for automation, tooling, and infrastructure as code.
  • •Hands-on experience with Kubernetes and major cloud platforms such as AWS, GCP, or Azure.
  • •Familiarity with monitoring, logging, and alerting tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, or Datadog.
  • •Solid understanding of networking concepts, distributed systems, and API gateways.
Experience:2+ yearsSREProductionDistributed systemsCloudKubernetes
Skills:AccountabilityBias for actionCollaborationCross-functional collaboration
Certifications:AWS Certified DevOps EngineerKubernetes Administrator
Tech Stack:GolangPythonKubernetesAWSGCPAzurePrometheusGrafanaDatadogInfrastructure as codeAPI gateways

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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Glassdoor: 3.9
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