Cloud native API platform provider with the fastest, most adopted API gateway in the world, helping organizations become API-first and securely accelerate AI adoption.

Kong, the leader in cloud native API platforms with over 300 million downloads of their API gateway, is seeking a Senior Software Engineer specializing in TypeScript for their Toronto team. This remote position offers an opportunity to work on Kong Konnect, their Service Connectivity Platform, where you'll develop crucial microservices for identity, search, and provisioning.

As part of Kong's engineering team, you'll collaborate with Staff and Principal Engineers to design and implement solutions that directly impact customer success. The role involves working with both Engineering and Product Management teams to develop software components that are essential to Kong's suite of products.

Kong is at the forefront of API technology, handling 83% of today's web traffic through API calls. They're on an ambitious mission to build the nervous system that will safely and reliably connect all of humankind. This position offers the chance to work with cutting-edge technologies including TypeScript, microservices architecture, and Kubernetes.

The ideal candidate brings 5+ years of software development experience, with expertise in TypeScript and JavaScript. You'll need strong experience with microservices, distributed systems, and API lifecycle management. The role includes participating in on-call rotations, mentoring team members, and maintaining high-quality code through automated testing.

Working at Kong means joining a company that values innovation and technical excellence, with competitive compensation ranging from CAD $123,025 to $172,330, plus additional benefits. This is an excellent opportunity for someone who wants to make a significant impact in the API-first world while working with a leading technology company.

Senior TypeScript Software Engineer position at Kong, developing microservices for Kong Konnect platform with 5+ years experience required, remote work in Toronto.

Software Engineer - TypeScript - Canada

Kong provides API management solutions and enterprise API gateway platforms with AI capabilities.

Kong is seeking a Senior LLMOps Engineer to join their team in Bangalore as a founding member of their new LLMOps platform team. This role is crucial in powering Kong's API Management suite, including the Kong Enterprise AI Gateway and Konnect, which support multiple AI capabilities for customers. The position focuses on building and managing a LLM SaaS platform that will serve all engineering teams at Kong, ensuring high reliability and security.

The AI Gateway offers a unified API for managing multiple Large Language Models (LLMs), allowing seamless switching between different AI providers. It implements various AI policies such as semantic caching, advanced routing and load balancing, prompt guards, and PII sanitization. The platform must maintain high reliability with 99.99% uptime SLOs while supporting the company's AI innovation initiatives.

As the founding member of the LLMOps team, you'll be responsible for shaping the technical direction of AI innovation at Kong, collaborating with product leadership, and helping grow the team. The role requires extensive experience in SaaS/PaaS systems, cloud platforms, and AI technologies, combined with strong communication skills and incident management capabilities.

This is an excellent opportunity for a senior engineer passionate about AI and distributed systems to make a significant impact on a company's AI infrastructure and help shape the future of API management with AI capabilities. The hybrid work environment in Bangalore offers flexibility while maintaining team collaboration.

Senior LLMOps Engineer position at Kong, focusing on building and managing an LLM SaaS platform with high reliability and security for enterprise AI Gateway and Konnect products.

Senior LLMOps Engineer

Kong creates software and managed services that connect APIs and microservices across clouds, Kubernetes, and data centers.

Kong is seeking a Senior Software Engineer for their Gateway team in Shanghai, focusing on core infrastructure and API management. This role is perfect for experienced engineers passionate about distributed systems and low-level programming. As part of the Core Team, you'll work on fundamental features like proxying, load balancing, and database support, directly impacting Kong's open-source project used globally. The position requires strong expertise in Rust programming, Linux systems, and distributed systems architecture. You'll be responsible for building foundations that other teams and customers rely on, while also engaging with the open-source community. Kong offers the opportunity to work on cutting-edge technology that powers API connectivity across clouds, Kubernetes, and data centers. The company values innovation and provides engineers the freedom to contribute to product documentation and shape the future of service connectivity platforms. This role combines technical depth with the opportunity to influence modern architecture solutions.

Senior Software Engineer position at Kong, working on Gateway infrastructure in Shanghai, requiring expertise in Rust, distributed systems, and API management.

Software Engineer, Gateway - Shanghai

Cloud native API platform provider with the fastest, most adopted API gateway in the world

Kong is seeking a Senior Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET) to join their development team, focusing on ensuring quality and reliability of their software products. The role centers on Typescript and API-first development within their Service Catalog team. Kong is a leading cloud native API platform with over 300 million downloads of their API gateway, serving both startups and Fortune 500 companies.

The ideal candidate will bring 5+ years of software development experience, with strong expertise in TypeScript and JavaScript. They'll work on designing and implementing solutions, contributing to pull requests, and maintaining complex software solutions. The role involves hands-on work with test automation frameworks like Cypress and Playwright, and participation in on-call rotations.

Kong's mission is to build the nervous system that will safely and reliably connect all of humankind, recognizing that 83% of web traffic today is API calls. They offer a unique opportunity to work on cutting-edge API technology that powers critical infrastructure for companies worldwide. The position is remote-based in Italy, offering the flexibility of working from anywhere while being part of a global team building the future of API connectivity.

This role is perfect for someone who combines strong technical testing expertise with development skills, can work independently, and has experience with large-scale SaaS platforms. The position offers the chance to work on meaningful technology that shapes how modern applications communicate and interact.

Senior SDET position at Kong, focusing on TypeScript and API-first development, ensuring quality of cloud-native API platform with 5+ years experience required.

Senior Software Development Engineer in Test

Kong is the cloud native API platform with the fastest, most adopted API gateway in the world, enabling companies to become API-first and securely accelerate AI adoption.

Kong, the leader in cloud native API platforms with over 300 million downloads of their API gateway, is seeking a Senior API Operations Engineer to join their team in Bangalore. This role offers an exciting opportunity to work on Kong Konnect, the company's Service Connectivity Platform, which is crucial to their mission of building the nervous system that will safely and reliably connect all of humankind.

The position involves designing and developing microservices that power Kong Konnect's cloud-hosted control plane. You'll be working with cutting-edge technologies including Go, Kubernetes, and Kafka, while contributing to both Cloud and Enterprise services. The role requires expertise in distributed systems, microservices architecture, and cloud technologies, with a strong focus on observability and performance.

As a senior engineer, you'll not only be implementing technical solutions but also mentoring team members and participating in on-call rotations to support production services. The role offers a perfect blend of technical challenges and leadership opportunities, working in a hybrid environment with 3 days in office and 2 days remote.

The ideal candidate brings 5+ years of experience in complex software development, with expert-level Go programming skills and deep understanding of cloud infrastructure. You'll be joining a company that's at the forefront of API technology, handling 83% of today's web traffic through API calls. Kong's commitment to becoming the nervous system of the cloud, combined with their impressive market presence and focus on innovation, makes this an exceptional opportunity for a senior engineer looking to make a significant impact in the API and cloud computing space.

Working at Kong means being part of a mission to enable companies worldwide to become API-first and securely accelerate AI adoption. The company serves organizations from startups to Fortune 500 enterprises, providing ample opportunities for professional growth and technical challenges. The collaborative culture, balanced hybrid work environment, and chance to work on technology that powers millions of API interactions make this role particularly attractive for experienced engineers passionate about distributed systems and API technologies.

Senior API Operations Engineer role at Kong, developing and maintaining microservices for Kong Konnect platform using Go and cloud technologies.

Senior API Operations Engineer

Cloud native API platform provider with the fastest, most adopted API gateway in the world with over 300m downloads.

Kong, the leader in cloud native API platforms with over 300 million downloads of their API gateway, is seeking a Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET) for their AI Gateway team in Shanghai. This role is perfect for someone passionate about quality assurance and test automation in a fast-paced, innovative environment.

The position offers an exciting opportunity to work on cutting-edge API and AI technologies, being part of a company that handles 83% of today's web traffic through APIs. As an SDET, you'll be integral to the scrum team, involved in all aspects of the development lifecycle from design to production support.

The ideal candidate will bring strong expertise in test automation, CI/CD practices, and API testing, with experience in technologies like JavaScript/TypeScript, Docker, and modern test frameworks such as Cypress and Playwright. You'll be responsible for building and maintaining test automation frameworks, improving test coverage, and ensuring the quality of Kong's AI Gateway products.

What makes this role particularly compelling is the chance to work on technology that's literally connecting the world, as Kong aims to build the nervous system that will safely and reliably connect all of humankind. You'll be working with globally distributed teams, contributing to a product that's at the forefront of API technology and AI integration.

The role offers growth opportunities in both technical skills and leadership, as you'll be helping build an engineering culture focused on quality while working with cutting-edge technologies in the API and AI space. If you're passionate about testing, development, and solving challenging technical problems in a company that's shaping the future of API technology, this role at Kong could be your next career milestone.

SDET position at Kong focusing on AI Gateway testing and automation, requiring expertise in test frameworks, CI/CD, and API testing.

Software Development Engineer in Test, AI Gateway - Shanghai

Cloud native API platform provider with the fastest, most adopted API gateway in the world, helping companies build with confidence and scale API connectivity securely.

Kong is a leading cloud native API platform provider, known for having the world's fastest and most adopted API gateway with over 300 million downloads. The company is seeking a DevOps Software Engineer to join their Shanghai team. This role offers an exciting opportunity to work on critical infrastructure and API connectivity solutions that power modern applications.

As a DevOps Engineer, you'll be integral to designing and implementing CI/CD pipelines, managing cloud infrastructure, and working with cutting-edge technologies like Bazel, Lua, and Rust. The position requires collaboration with development teams to ensure code quality and deliverability while maintaining robust technical documentation.

The ideal candidate should have a Computer Science degree and at least 1 year of DevOps experience. You'll need foundational knowledge of container technologies, cloud services, and version control tools. Kong offers a unique opportunity to work on technology that handles 83% of today's web traffic through APIs, essentially building the nervous system that connects cloud computing worldwide.

This role is perfect for someone who is passionate about cloud native technologies, eager to learn, and wants to contribute to a product that powers critical traffic volumes for both startups and Fortune 500 companies. You'll be part of a company with an audacious mission to build the nervous system that will safely and reliably connect all of humankind.

Entry-level DevOps Software Engineer position at Kong, working on CI/CD pipelines and cloud infrastructure in Shanghai, requiring 1 year of experience.

Software Engineer (DevOps) - Shanghai

Cloud native API platform provider with the fastest, most adopted API gateway in the world, enabling companies to become API-first and securely accelerate AI adoption.

Kong is seeking a Site Reliability Engineer to join their dynamic team in Singapore. As a leading cloud native API platform provider with over 300 million downloads of their API gateway, Kong is at the forefront of enabling companies to become API-first and securely accelerate AI adoption.

The role focuses on building and maintaining critical infrastructure automation workflows, managing deployment processes, and ensuring the reliability of Kong's distributed systems. You'll work with cutting-edge technologies including Kubernetes, Docker, and major cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure), while contributing to the company's mission of building the nervous system that will safely and reliably connect all of humankind.

The ideal candidate will bring strong technical expertise in Linux systems, programming languages like Go or Python, and extensive experience with CI/CD pipelines and Infrastructure as Code. You'll be responsible for improving staging and production environments, implementing monitoring solutions, and ensuring the smooth operation of Kong's services in a 24/7/365 environment.

This is an excellent opportunity for a skilled engineer who wants to work with modern cloud technologies and contribute to a company that powers 83% of today's web traffic through API calls. Kong offers a collaborative environment and values diversity, providing equal opportunities to all qualified applicants.

Site Reliability Engineer position at Kong, working with cloud infrastructure, Kubernetes, and automation tools to maintain and scale the world's most adopted API gateway platform.

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Cloud native API platform provider with the fastest, most adopted API gateway in the world, helping organizations become API-first and securely accelerate AI adoption.