Senior Software Engineer, Control Plane

4 days ago

Toronto, Ontario, Canada Kong Inc. Full time

Are you ready to power the World's connections?
If you don't think you meet all of the criteria below but are still interested in the job, please apply. Nobody checks every box - we're looking for candidates that are particularly strong in a few areas, and have some interest and capabilities in others.

About The Role
Design, develop, and maintain microservices that power Kong Konnect, the Service Connectivity Platform. Working closely with Product Management and teams across Engineering, you will develop software that has a direct impact on our customers' business and Kong's success.

What You'll Do

  • Implement and maintain services that power Konnect, such as Kong's cloud-hosted control plane.
  • Contribute to Kong's Cloud and Enterprise services.
  • Design and implement solutions to technical problems of moderate complexity.
  • Support those services in production by participating in an on-call rotation.
  • Write automated tests to ensure behavior of code and avoid regressions.
  • Mentor other team members.
  • And any additional tasks required by the manager.

What You'll Bring

  • 5+ years working in a team to develop, deliver, and maintain complex software solutions.
  • Experience in Go.
  • Experience designing, prototyping, building and debugging microservices architectures and distributed systems.
  • Experience performing DevOps monitoring and observability.
  • Experience with working or developing L4/L7 proxies such as Nginx, HA-proxy, Envoy, or others.
  • Experience developing and supporting a large scale SaaS platform; with working knowledge of containerization and Kubernetes.
  • Expertise in designing and writing APIs, and a firm grasp of API lifecycle management.
  • Expertise with data modeling in relational databases.
  • Understanding of and development with git and Github workflows.
  • Expertise in test-driven development and automated testing.
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills.

Bonus Points

  • Deep experience with Go; effective go standards.
  • Experience with NGINX/OpenResty/Kong/LuaJIT.
  • Experience with Datadog/OpenTelemetry.
  • Experience contributing to Open Source Software projects.

About Kong
Kong Inc., a leading developer of cloud API technologies, is on a mission to enable companies around the world to become "API-first" and securely accelerate AI adoption. Kong helps organizations globally — from startups to Fortune 500 enterprises — unleash developer productivity, build securely, and accelerate time to market. For more information about Kong, please visit or follow us on X @thekonginc.

Compensation Range: CA$144.8K - CA$202.8K

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