Senior Software Engineer - API Gateway

October 11

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Kong Inc.

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API • APIs • web services • Cloud Services • big data

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💰 $100M Series D on 2021-02

Description

• 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: • 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.

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. • Experience programming low-level networking systems: Nginx and/or Openresty are preferred but others like Apache are also valid. • Experience in any of the following: IdP/AuthZ systems and integration, monitoring and profiling systems, network traffic inspection. • 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. Lua would be the ideal, but Perl, Python, or Ruby also serve. • You've spent time developing and supporting a large scale SaaS platform. • You have at least 5-ish years working in a team to develop, package and deliver server-side applications and components.