Senior Software Engineer, Control Planes

The role

You will architect and scale microservices for the Konnect cloud-hosted control plane. You will design, implement, and maintain performant APIs and services to manage global customer configurations.

What you will do

• Architect and scale microservices that power Kong Konnect's cloud-hosted control plane.
• Design, implement, and maintain highly performant, low-latency APIs and services.
• Drive solutions for technical problems of moderate complexity.
• Prevent regressions and guarantee product stability by writing robust, automated tests.
• Own the reliability and uptime of services in production by participating in an active on-call rotation.
• Collaborate with Product Management, Solutions Architects, and cross-functional engineering teams.

Required qualifications

• 5+ years of experience working in a team environment to develop, deliver, and maintain complex, distributed software solutions.
• Solid proficiency in Go (Golang) and designing relational database data models.
• Practical experience building, debugging, and maintaining microservices architectures at scale.
• Demonstrated experience performing DevOps monitoring, observability, and supporting a large-scale SaaS platform running on Kubernetes and containerized environments.
• Working knowledge of L4/L7 proxies such as Nginx, HA-proxy, or Envoy.
• Firm grasp of API lifecycle management, design standards, and testing frameworks (TDD/automated testing).
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

Nice to have

• Deep experience with Go standards and writing idiomatic, highly optimized Go.
• Direct experience with Nginx, OpenResty, LuaJIT, or the Kong gateway core.
• Experience with cloud-native observability stacks, specifically Datadog or OpenTelemetry.
• Active contributions to open-source software projects.

About the company

Kong Inc. is the AI Connectivity Company building the connectivity layer of AI. Their unified API and AI platform enables organizations to secure, manage, accelerate, govern, and monetize the flow of intelligence across APIs and AI traffic.