Senior SRE, Managed Gateways

Kong
Toronto, Washington
Workplace: RemoteFull timeCAD 118,000 - 167,000 annuallyFunction: DevOps, Cloud & InfrastructureSkills: ["Leadership","Mentorship","Ownership","Collaboration","Urgency"]

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.

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Senior SRE, Managed Gateways

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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, Washington
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
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