Kong

6 days ago

Senior Software Engineer, Konnect Core Platform

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Last checked: 16 hours agoStatus: Live

Job Summary

Build and maintain Kong’s search infrastructure, notification services, and audit logging systems for a platform used to secure and accelerate AI adoption. Design scalable, high-performance distributed backend services in Golang and modern cloud-native technologies, optimize reliability and performance, and develop Model Context Protocol (MCP) tools and integrations. Collaborate with product and engineering to deliver well-tested features and participate in code reviews, planning, and on-call rotation.

Location: Toronto

Workplace: Hybrid

Employment Type: Full time

Job Function: Software Engineering

Seniority: Mid level

Key Responsibilities

•Design, develop, and maintain search infrastructure and query systems for product discovery and analytics.
•Build and optimize real-time notification services across Kong’s platform.
•Develop and enhance audit logging systems for security and compliance data capture, storage, and querying.
•Create MCP (Model Context Protocol) tools and integrations that extend platform functionality and enable new workflows.
•Architect scalable, distributed backend services in Golang; collaborate on requirements, write well-tested code, and participate in code reviews, planning, optimization, and on-call.

Pay and Benefits

Salary: CAD 115,000 - 200,000 annually

Perks:EquityAnnual Bonus

Key Requirements

•5+ years of professional software engineering experience building backend services and distributed systems.
•Strong proficiency in Golang and building production services at scale.
•Deep understanding of distributed systems concepts (consistency, availability, partitioning, consensus).
•Experience designing and implementing search infrastructure (e.g., Elasticsearch, OpenSearch, Solr) and event-driven notification systems.
•Experience with microservices and container orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes) plus database, API, and event streaming technologies.

Experience:Distributed systems

Skills:Problem-solvingMentoring

Tech Stack:GolangElasticsearchOpenSearchSolrSQLNoSQLRESTGRPCDockerKubernetesKafkaRabbitMQNATSGitHub ActionsJenkinsGitHubJIRAConfluenceModel Context Protocol (MCP)Prometheus

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

6 days ago

Senior Software Engineer, Konnect Core Platform

✓ Verified Job

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

Source: Company careers pageValidated by: Fursa AI

Last checked: 16 hours agoStatus: Live

Job Summary

Location: Toronto

Workplace: Hybrid

Employment Type: Full time

Job Function: Software Engineering

Seniority: Mid level

Key Responsibilities

•Design, develop, and maintain search infrastructure and query systems for product discovery and analytics.
•Build and optimize real-time notification services across Kong’s platform.
•Develop and enhance audit logging systems for security and compliance data capture, storage, and querying.
•Create MCP (Model Context Protocol) tools and integrations that extend platform functionality and enable new workflows.
•Architect scalable, distributed backend services in Golang; collaborate on requirements, write well-tested code, and participate in code reviews, planning, optimization, and on-call.

Pay and Benefits

Salary: CAD 115,000 - 200,000 annually

Perks:EquityAnnual Bonus

Key Requirements

•5+ years of professional software engineering experience building backend services and distributed systems.
•Strong proficiency in Golang and building production services at scale.
•Deep understanding of distributed systems concepts (consistency, availability, partitioning, consensus).
•Experience designing and implementing search infrastructure (e.g., Elasticsearch, OpenSearch, Solr) and event-driven notification systems.
•Experience with microservices and container orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes) plus database, API, and event streaming technologies.

Experience:Distributed systems

Skills:Problem-solvingMentoring

Tech Stack:GolangElasticsearchOpenSearchSolrSQLNoSQLRESTGRPCDockerKubernetesKafkaRabbitMQNATSGitHub ActionsJenkinsGitHubJIRAConfluenceModel Context Protocol (MCP)Prometheus

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