Senior Software Engineer, Platform (Konnect)

Are you ready to power the World's connections?

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:

Design, develop, and maintain microservices that power Kong Konnect, the Service Connectivity Platform. Working closely with Product Management and teams across Engineering, you will develop software that has a direct impact on our customers' business and Kong's success. 

• Implement and maintain services that power Konnect. Examples include notification, authentication, authorization, search, and more.
• Design and implement solutions to technical problems of moderate complexity.
• Support those services in production by participating in an on-call rotation.
• Write automated tests to ensure the behavior of code and avoid regressions.
• And any additional tasks required by the manager.

• 4+ years working in and across agile scrum teams to develop, deliver, and maintain complex software solutions.
• Experience designing, prototyping, building, and debugging microservices architectures and distributed systems.
• Experience developing and supporting a large-scale SaaS platform.
• Expertise in designing and writing Restful and WebSocket APIs (in GoLang), and a firm grasp of API lifecycle management.
• Expertise with data modeling in relational and no-SQL databases.
• Bonus points if you have experience in building event-driven architectures using Kafka and Flink (in Scala).
• Understanding of and development with git and Github workflows.
• Expertise in test-driven development and automated testing.
• Working knowledge of containerization and Kubernetes.
• A product-oriented approach to problem-solving and prioritizing work.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.

About Kong: 

Kong is THE cloud native API platform with the fastest, most adopted API gateway in the world (over 300m downloads!). Loved by developers and trusted with enterprises’ most critical traffic volumes, Kong helps startups and Fortune 500 companies build with confidence – allowing them to bring solutions to market faster with API and service connectivity that scales easily and securely. 

83% of web traffic today is API calls!  APIs are the connective tissue of the cloud and the underlying technology that allows software to talk and interact with one another.  Therefore, we believe that APIs act as the nervous system of the cloud.  Our audacious mission is to build the nervous system that will safely and reliably connect all of humankind!  

For more information about Kong, please visit konghq.com or follow @thekonginc on Twitter.

We are an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or veteran status.