Software Engineer 2, Managed Gateways

Kong
Bengaluru
Workplace: OnsiteFull timeFunction: Software EngineeringExperience: 5+ yearsEducation: bachelorsSkills: ["Communication","Collaboration","Ownership","Mentoring","Debugging"]

Build and operate highly available distributed systems for Managed Gateways, owning major features end-to-end from design through production rollout. Develop microservices and control-plane components powering dedicated cloud gateways and serverless gateways, while partnering with product and engineering to scale customer impact. Ensure 99.99% uptime through on-call ownership, reliability improvements, and automated tests, observability, and tooling. Mentor peers and contribute to the technical roadmap.

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Kong
Kong
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Software Engineer 2, Managed Gateways

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Job Summary

Build and operate highly available distributed systems for Managed Gateways, owning major features end-to-end from design through production rollout. Develop microservices and control-plane components powering dedicated cloud gateways and serverless gateways, while partnering with product and engineering to scale customer impact. Ensure 99.99% uptime through on-call ownership, reliability improvements, and automated tests, observability, and tooling. Mentor peers and contribute to the technical roadmap.
Location: Bengaluru
Workplace: Onsite
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Software Engineering
Seniority: Mid level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Design, develop, and operate highly available distributed systems for Managed Gateways to ensure resilience to outages.
  • •Own and lead delivery of key features/modules from design through production rollout.
  • •Build microservices and control-plane components for Dedicated Cloud Gateways and Serverless Gateways.
  • •Participate in on-call rotations, owning services in production and driving reliability improvements.
  • •Write automated tests and observability tooling to ensure reliability and reduce toil.

Key Requirements

  • •Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science or related field.
  • •5+ years building high-performance software, ideally in infrastructure or platform engineering.
  • •Strong experience with Golang.
  • •Deep understanding of distributed systems, networking (L4/L7, DNS, TLS/SSL, HTTP), and cloud-native architectures.
  • •Hands-on experience with a major cloud (AWS, GCP, Azure) and container orchestration (Kubernetes).
Experience:5+ yearsInfrastructurePlatform engineeringDistributed systemsNetworkingCloud-nativeAPI managementMulti-cloud networkingServerless
Education:Bachelor's in Computer Science
Skills:CommunicationCollaborationOwnershipMentoringDebugging
Tech Stack:GolangAWSGCPAzureKubernetesMicroservicesAPI managementDNSTLS/SSLHTTPObservabilityMonitoringNginxEnvoyHAProxy

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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