Kong

1 month ago

Software Engineer AI Gateway

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Last checked: 23 hours agoStatus: Live

Job Summary

Join the AI Gateway team to build and maintain API management software for AI and LLMs, enabling scalable, distributed deployments. You’ll implement features like multi-LLM routing, semantic caching, and load balancing, while profiling and optimizing performance. Collaborate with a remote team to bridge Kong with third-party platforms, write documentation, and push the boundaries of AI-enabled API infrastructure.

Location: Milan

Workplace: Hybrid

Employment Type: Full time · Permanent

Job Function: Software Engineering

Seniority: Mid level

Key Responsibilities

•Build and maintain API management software for AI and LLMs and its underlying stack.
•Implement new features including proxying capabilities, load balancing, and databases support that extend Kong AI Gateway’s offering.
•Troubleshoot bugs, tune performance, and perform low-level optimizations.
•Bridge gaps between Kong and third-party deployment platforms and tooling.
•Perform any additional tasks required by the manager.

Key Requirements

•3+ years of programming in server-side applications and components
•Hands on experience with either Golang or Rust
•Experience building and debugging applications that are highly scalable, distributed, reliable and resilient
•Solid hands-on low-level technical expertise in Linux systems troubleshooting, and profiling
•Experience in distributed systems, Linux networking stack and computer systems programming, Kong works with APIs on both L7 and L4 transports and protocols

Experience:3+ yearsAILLMDistributed systemsAPI gatewayKong

Skills:GolangRustLinuxNetworkingAPIsLLMAIDistributed systems

Tech Stack:GolangRustLinuxNGINX/OpenResty/Kong/LuaJITEnvoyIstio

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

Software Engineer AI Gateway

✓ Verified Job

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

Source: Company careers pageValidated by: Fursa AI

Last checked: 23 hours agoStatus: Live

Job Summary

Location: Milan

Workplace: Hybrid

Employment Type: Full time · Permanent

Job Function: Software Engineering

Seniority: Mid level

Key Responsibilities

•Build and maintain API management software for AI and LLMs and its underlying stack.
•Implement new features including proxying capabilities, load balancing, and databases support that extend Kong AI Gateway’s offering.
•Troubleshoot bugs, tune performance, and perform low-level optimizations.
•Bridge gaps between Kong and third-party deployment platforms and tooling.
•Perform any additional tasks required by the manager.

Key Requirements

•3+ years of programming in server-side applications and components
•Hands on experience with either Golang or Rust
•Experience building and debugging applications that are highly scalable, distributed, reliable and resilient
•Solid hands-on low-level technical expertise in Linux systems troubleshooting, and profiling
•Experience in distributed systems, Linux networking stack and computer systems programming, Kong works with APIs on both L7 and L4 transports and protocols

Experience:3+ yearsAILLMDistributed systemsAPI gatewayKong

Skills:GolangRustLinuxNetworkingAPIsLLMAIDistributed systems

Tech Stack:GolangRustLinuxNGINX/OpenResty/Kong/LuaJITEnvoyIstio

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