Kong

1 month ago

Staff Site Reliability Engineer - Volcano

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Last checked: 6 hours agoStatus: Live

Job Summary

Staff SRE for Volcano, Kong's greenfield internal developer platform. Own end-to-end reliability, design multi-region Kubernetes infrastructure, implement GitOps/CI-CD with ArgoCD/Helm/Terraform, scale multi-tenant data services (PostgreSQL/Redis), and drive day-one observability with Datadog, Prometheus, and Grafana while shaping reliability culture across cross-functional teams.

Location: United States

Workplace: Remote

Employment Type: Full time

Job Function: DevOps, Cloud & Infrastructure

Key Responsibilities

•Own reliability for Volcano end-to-end: Define and drive SLOs, error budgets, and incident response practices for all Volcano services — edge deployments, managed Postgres, auth, realtime, storage, and the control plane.
•Architect the platform's infrastructure: Design and build the multi-region Kubernetes infrastructure, networking, and data plane that powers Volcano's edge deployment pipeline and backend-as-a-service capabilities.
•Build the GitOps and CI/CD backbone: Establish deployment automation, canary pipelines, and preview environment provisioning using ArgoCD, Helm, and Terraform/Terragrunt — setting patterns the broader team will follow.
•Scale managed data services: Design, operate, and harden multi-tenant PostgreSQL clusters, Redis caching layers, and object storage — with a focus on data isolation, performance, and disaster recovery.
•Drive observability from day one: Instrument every Volcano service with meaningful SLIs; build dashboards, alerts, and runbooks using Datadog, Prometheus, and Grafana before services go live, not after incidents.
•Lead cross-functional reliability work: Collaborate with the OCTO team, product engineering, and security to bake reliability and compliance into Volcano's architecture — not bolt it on later.
•Set SRE culture and standards: Mentor engineers across Volcano's contributing teams on reliability principles; lead postmortems, define on-call practices, and build a blameless engineering culture.
•Evaluate and adopt emerging technologies: Given Volcano's greenfield nature, evaluate and make architectural decisions on edge runtimes, serverless compute, vector databases, and AI-native infrastructure components.

Pay and Benefits

Salary: USD 150,000 - 210,000 annually

Key Requirements

•BS in Computer Science or equivalent; substantial experience at Staff or Principal IC level in SRE/Platform Engineering.
•Proven track record building SRE or platform engineering practices for developer-facing platforms or PaaS/SaaS products — ideally at greenfield stage.
•Deep Kubernetes expertise: multi-tenant cluster design, networking (CNI, service mesh, ingress), autoscaling, and security hardening.
•Experience with GitOps/CI/CD tooling: ArgoCD, Helm, Terraform/Terragrunt.
•Design, operate, and harden multi-tenant PostgreSQL clusters, Redis caching layers, and object storage with focus on data isolation, performance, and disaster recovery.

Experience:SREPlatform EngineeringKubernetesGitOpsPostgreSQLRedis

Skills:CommunicationProblem-solving

Languages:English

Tech Stack:KubernetesArgoCDHelmTerraformTerragruntPostgreSQLRedisDatadogPrometheusGrafanaCI/CDEdge deploymentsMulti-region

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 month ago

Staff Site Reliability Engineer - Volcano

✓ Verified Job

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

Source: Company careers pageValidated by: Fursa AI

Last checked: 6 hours agoStatus: Live

Job Summary

Location: United States

Workplace: Remote

Employment Type: Full time

Job Function: DevOps, Cloud & Infrastructure

Key Responsibilities

•Own reliability for Volcano end-to-end: Define and drive SLOs, error budgets, and incident response practices for all Volcano services — edge deployments, managed Postgres, auth, realtime, storage, and the control plane.
•Architect the platform's infrastructure: Design and build the multi-region Kubernetes infrastructure, networking, and data plane that powers Volcano's edge deployment pipeline and backend-as-a-service capabilities.
•Build the GitOps and CI/CD backbone: Establish deployment automation, canary pipelines, and preview environment provisioning using ArgoCD, Helm, and Terraform/Terragrunt — setting patterns the broader team will follow.
•Scale managed data services: Design, operate, and harden multi-tenant PostgreSQL clusters, Redis caching layers, and object storage — with a focus on data isolation, performance, and disaster recovery.
•Drive observability from day one: Instrument every Volcano service with meaningful SLIs; build dashboards, alerts, and runbooks using Datadog, Prometheus, and Grafana before services go live, not after incidents.
•Lead cross-functional reliability work: Collaborate with the OCTO team, product engineering, and security to bake reliability and compliance into Volcano's architecture — not bolt it on later.
•Set SRE culture and standards: Mentor engineers across Volcano's contributing teams on reliability principles; lead postmortems, define on-call practices, and build a blameless engineering culture.
•Evaluate and adopt emerging technologies: Given Volcano's greenfield nature, evaluate and make architectural decisions on edge runtimes, serverless compute, vector databases, and AI-native infrastructure components.

Pay and Benefits

Salary: USD 150,000 - 210,000 annually

Key Requirements

•BS in Computer Science or equivalent; substantial experience at Staff or Principal IC level in SRE/Platform Engineering.
•Proven track record building SRE or platform engineering practices for developer-facing platforms or PaaS/SaaS products — ideally at greenfield stage.
•Deep Kubernetes expertise: multi-tenant cluster design, networking (CNI, service mesh, ingress), autoscaling, and security hardening.
•Experience with GitOps/CI/CD tooling: ArgoCD, Helm, Terraform/Terragrunt.
•Design, operate, and harden multi-tenant PostgreSQL clusters, Redis caching layers, and object storage with focus on data isolation, performance, and disaster recovery.

Experience:SREPlatform EngineeringKubernetesGitOpsPostgreSQLRedis

Skills:CommunicationProblem-solving

Languages:English

Tech Stack:KubernetesArgoCDHelmTerraformTerragruntPostgreSQLRedisDatadogPrometheusGrafanaCI/CDEdge deploymentsMulti-region

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