Software Engineer 2, Managed Gateways

The role

You will design, develop, and operate highly available distributed systems for Managed Gateways. You will own major features end-to-end and lead technical execution to ensure platform uptime and performance.

What you will do

• Design, develop, and operate highly available distributed systems for Managed Gateways.
• Own and lead delivery of key features and modules from design to production rollout.
• Build microservices and control-plane components for Dedicated Cloud Gateways and Serverless Gateways.
• Partner with Product and Engineering teams to deliver new features at scale.
• Participate in on-call rotations and own services in production.
• Write automated tests, observability hooks, and tooling.
• Assist in the hiring process and mentor engineers.
• Contribute to shaping the technical roadmap for Managed Gateways.

Required qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science or related field.
• 5+ years of experience building high-performance software, ideally in infrastructure or platform engineering.
• Strong experience with Golang
• Deep understanding of distributed systems, networking (L4/L7, DNS, TLS/SSL, HTTP), and cloud-native architectures.
• Hands-on experience with at least one major cloud (AWS, GCP, Azure) and container orchestration (Kubernetes).
• Experience building APIs, standardizing APIs in large organizations, and creating API workflows.
• Experience designing and operating systems to deliver 99.99%+ uptime SLAs.
• Proven ability to debug complex systems from bit-and-bytes level to high-level design.
• Knowledge of observability and monitoring practices.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills.
• Strong sense of ownership with experience driving features end-to-end and influencing technical direction.

Nice to have

• Experience working with or contributing to L4/L7 proxies such as Nginx, Envoy, or HAProxy.
• Background in API management, API workflows, or developer platforms.
• Experience with multi-cloud networking.
• Contributions to open-source infrastructure or networking 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.