Kong

1 day ago

Senior SRE, Managed Gateways

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Last checked: 17 hours agoStatus: Live

Job Summary

Build and operate resilient, scalable cloud infrastructure powering Kong’s Managed Gateways across AWS, GCP, and Azure. Lead and mentor a team of Site Reliability Engineers, architect fault-tolerant systems with Kubernetes and automation, and own incident response and continuous reliability improvements. Serve as the senior technical authority for enterprise implementations, creating repeatable onboarding playbooks while tracking SLOs/SLIs and driving cross-functional roadmap readiness.

Location: Toronto

Workplace: Remote

Employment Type: Full time

Job Function: DevOps, Cloud & Infrastructure

Seniority: Manager level

Key Responsibilities

•Lead, mentor, and inspire a team of Site Reliability Engineers for Managed Gateway offerings.
•Architect and implement robust, scalable, fault-tolerant cloud-native systems using Kubernetes, Golang, and major cloud providers.
•Own the end-to-end operational lifecycle, including monitoring/alerting, incident response, and blameless post-mortems.
•Define, track, and report SLOs and SLIs, driving continuous service improvement and reliability.
•Act as a senior technical authority for enterprise onboarding and implementation, partnering with Product and Customer Success to deliver production-ready deployments.

Pay and Benefits

Salary: CAD 118,000 - 167,000 annually

Key Requirements

•Extensive experience as a Site Reliability Engineer focused on highly available, distributed systems.
•Deep expertise with Kubernetes and cloud-native architectures, preferably across AWS, GCP, and Azure.
•Strong proficiency in Golang or similar modern programming languages for automation and tool development.
•Proven experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure as code (Terraform, Ansible).
•In-depth knowledge of monitoring, logging, and alerting (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, Datadog).

Skills:LeadershipMentorshipOwnershipCollaborationUrgency

Tech Stack:KubernetesGolangAWSGCPAzureTerraformAnsibleCI/CDPrometheusGrafanaELKDatadogAPI 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

Glassdoor: 3.9

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Kong

1 day ago

Senior SRE, Managed Gateways

✓ Verified Job

Canonical indexed version, validated from employer's careers page.

Source: Company careers pageValidated by: Fursa AI

Last checked: 17 hours agoStatus: Live

Job Summary

Location: Toronto

Workplace: Remote

Employment Type: Full time

Job Function: DevOps, Cloud & Infrastructure

Seniority: Manager level

Key Responsibilities

•Lead, mentor, and inspire a team of Site Reliability Engineers for Managed Gateway offerings.
•Architect and implement robust, scalable, fault-tolerant cloud-native systems using Kubernetes, Golang, and major cloud providers.
•Own the end-to-end operational lifecycle, including monitoring/alerting, incident response, and blameless post-mortems.
•Define, track, and report SLOs and SLIs, driving continuous service improvement and reliability.
•Act as a senior technical authority for enterprise onboarding and implementation, partnering with Product and Customer Success to deliver production-ready deployments.

Pay and Benefits

Salary: CAD 118,000 - 167,000 annually

Key Requirements

•Extensive experience as a Site Reliability Engineer focused on highly available, distributed systems.
•Deep expertise with Kubernetes and cloud-native architectures, preferably across AWS, GCP, and Azure.
•Strong proficiency in Golang or similar modern programming languages for automation and tool development.
•Proven experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure as code (Terraform, Ansible).
•In-depth knowledge of monitoring, logging, and alerting (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, Datadog).

Skills:LeadershipMentorshipOwnershipCollaborationUrgency

Tech Stack:KubernetesGolangAWSGCPAzureTerraformAnsibleCI/CDPrometheusGrafanaELKDatadogAPI gateways

Company Brief

Kong

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

Glassdoor: 3.9

Website LinkedIn Glassdoor