SRE Sr. Software Engineer

Annual salary, USD
152,000 - 188,338
Job function
Software Engineering
Job type
Full Time,
Job posted
Apply before
29 Oct 2024
Industry
Internet

About Kong Inc.

The cloud connectivity company. Powering connections to build a reliable digital world.

Actively Hiring
You will be responsible for contributing to a team that is building and maintaining workflows that automate releasing, testing and deploying products. Improving staging and production environments for SaaS distributions. Research and build monitoring/analyze tools to optimize building and deploying code-base, manage distributed systems and application resources. You will build workflows for delivering our software to a variety of platforms including AWS, GCP, Azure, and container technologies like Docker and Kubernetes to automate deployment and scale our products.

What you’ll bring:

  • BS degree in Computer Science, similar technical field of study or equivalent practical experience.
  • Located in the greater Toronto region.
  • Experience with continuous/rapid release engineering (CI/CD).”Infrastructure as Code” configuration management systems such as Terraform, Chef, Puppet or Ansible.
  • Experience with Apache Kafka.
  • Experience building and administering alerting and monitoring systems for API services.
  • Strong knowledge of Linux/Unix systems.
  • Knowledge of one or more mainstream programming languages (Go, C/C++, Python).
  • Strong skills in network services such as DNS, TLS/SSL, HTTP.
  • Experience working in a 24/7/365 service environment.
  • Debugging Kubernetes clusters, issues, and networking problems.
  • Design, implement, manage and orchestrate Kubernetes container clusters.
  • Any additional tasks required by manager.

Bonus Points:

  • Experience implementing secure and highly available distributed systems/ microservices.
  • Working knowledge of CSP networking solutions AWS (Transit Gateway, Direct Connect, VPC peering, VPN), Azure (Azure VNet ) and GCP (Network Connectivity Center).
  • Professional experience managing production software in AWS.
  • Experience with PostgreSQL in multi-region configuration.
  • Experience with Datadog, ElasticSearch, Prometheus, Grafana.
  • Experience with Redis in multi-region configuration.
Kong has different base pay ranges for different work locations globally, which allows us to pay employees competitively and consistently in different geographic markets. Compensation varies depending on a wide array of factors, including but not limited to specific candidate location, role, skill set and level of experience. Certain roles are eligible for additional rewards including sales incentives depending on the terms of the applicable plan and role. Benefits may vary depending on location. US based employees are typically offered access to healthcare benefits, a 401(k) plan, short and long term disability benefits, basic life and AD&D insurance, among others. The typical base pay range for this role in Canadian. $152,000 – 188,338 CAD.

What is a Konger?

We are a group of makers, thinkers, and doers focused on helping today’s developers build tomorrow’s technology. Our teams work on the bleeding edge of API innovation to provide our users with a central nervous system for data and services.
We put design at the heart of everything we do, and we’re relentlessly focused on creating beautiful experiences for our customers. That’s why technology companies, major banks, e-commerce innovators, and government agencies put Kong in front of their most important web applications.
We believe in the power of Open Source and everything it stands for. That’s why developers around the world enthusiastically contribute on top of our open-source platform.
We are passionate about solving challenges that will fundamentally shape the future of technology, and we’re looking for the right people to join us on our mission. If you believe in taking ownership of your work, making an impact, and having fun along the way, we would love to talk to you.

Kong Core Values:

Be Inclusive.Β We work together from anywhere to achieve our common goals. Our differences make us stronger.
Be Authentic.Β We are genuine, principled and confident without arrogance. Show respect and kindness, especially in tough moments.
Be Relentlessly Resourceful.Β We work with purpose, obsession and grit. It takes muscle to do hard things and doing hard things build muscle.
Be Customer Obsessed.Β We care. Customers are everything, we put them at the center of everything you do. We are all empowered to make an impact.
Be Curious.Β We value ideas over hierarchy. Never accept the status quo. We make bold bets, fail, and learn everyday. There is always a way.
Be an Owner.Β We are drivers not passengers and own the quality and outcomes of our work.

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

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