Kong
Senior Staff Software Engineer - Agent Marketplace
San Francisco, California, United States, Remote. Posted a month ago
The role
You will architect and build the coordination fabric for agent-to-API and agent-to-agent transactions. This role involves designing full-stack surfaces, agent-native user experiences, and transaction infrastructure built on Kong's runtime stack.
What you will do
- Architect and own end-to-end full-stack surfaces of the marketplace loop
- Design agent-native user experience including MCP server capabilities and sandboxed test environments
- Scale and protect transaction infrastructure for identity verification, metering, and settlement
- Drive cross-functional execution across Kong's engineering ecosystem
- Lead architectural design reviews and champion a zero-technical-debt culture
- Mentor engineers across the organization
- Own the technical lifecycle by writing engineering documentation and product specifications
Required qualifications
- 7+ years of experience engineering enterprise-grade production software
- Proven capability to design, build, and support complex distributed systems from scratch
- Master-level expertise with a modern backend stack such as Golang or similar systems languages
- Deep architectural command of API infrastructure, Kubernetes, and cloud-native patterns
- Extensive hands-on experience developing autonomous agent applications, tool-calling systems, prompt loops, or systems designed explicitly for machine consumption
- Deep operational familiarity with multi-tenant architectures, usage-based metering pipelines, billing integration patterns, or secure data exchange layers
- Strong written communication and technical articulation skills
- Comfort operating within remote, globally distributed engineering environments
Nice to have
- West Coast/Bay Area alignment preferred
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.