Senior Software Engineer, API Gateway Specialist

1 month ago

Old Toronto, Canada Kong Inc Full time

About the role:

Kong is an Open-Core project. Its foundation is the Open-source API Gateway. On top of that, there is an Enterprise Gateway, which extends and improves it. The Enterprise Gateway is the central piece of the Kong ecosystem, which includes other pieces of software and infrastructure that add even more value.

Your main responsibility will be developing, maintaining, and extending the Kong Gateway, on both its Open-source and the Enterprise versions. You will engage with the Open Source community and work closely with other teams in the company to improve it. You will be responsible for building foundations for other teams and customers, discovering and producing cutting-edge industry trends and use-cases.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Work with the Product management team to identify and implement enhancements.
  • Propose and implement POCs and prototypes for networking software in Rust.
  • Work closely with engineering teams to architect, design, and understand upcoming new features.
  • Bug fixing, performance tuning, and low-level optimizations.
  • Engage with the open-source community.
  • Provide help to the support and escalation teams.
  • Mentoring and pairing with other team members.

Requirements:

  • Comfortable working in a remote distributed team with minimal supervision.
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills, both as a means to work with others and to write documentation.
  • Solid hands-on low-level technical expertise for Linux systems troubleshooting and profiling.

Preferred Qualifications:

  • Experience programming low-level networking systems, preferably Nginx and/or Openresty.
  • At least 2 years of experience working with Rust.
  • Experience designing, prototyping, building, and debugging applications that are highly scalable, distributed, reliable, and resilient.
  • Familiarity with a scripting language, preferably Lua.
  • You've spent time developing and supporting a large-scale SaaS platform.
  • You have at least 5 years working in a team to develop, package, and deliver server-side applications and components.

Bonus Points:

  • Experience with NGINX/OpenResty/Kong/LuaJIT.
  • Experience with Envoy or Istio.
  • Understanding of VM implementations like eBPF and/or WASM.

About Kong:

Kong is the cloud-native API platform with the fastest, most adopted API gateway in the world (over 300m downloads). Loved by developers and trusted with enterprises' most critical traffic volumes, Kong helps startups and Fortune 500 companies build with confidence – allowing them to bring solutions to market faster with API and service connectivity that scales easily and securely.

83% of web traffic today is API calls. APIs are the connective tissue of the cloud and the underlying technology that allows software to talk and interact with one another. Therefore, we believe that APIs act as the nervous system of the cloud. Our audacious mission is to build the nervous system that will safely and reliably connect all of humankind.

We are an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or veteran status.

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