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.
The job is fully remote for people in Europe. Kong can currently hire in Ireland, Italy, Spain, Germany, Netherlands, Poland, Sweden, France or the United Kingdom.
You will and other duties
Work with the Product management team to identify and implement enhancements.
Work closely with engineering teams to architecture, design, and understand upcoming new features.
Bug fixing, performance tuning and low-level optimizations.
Engage with the open source community.
Provide help to the support and escalation teams.
Mentoring and pairing with other team members.
And any additional tasks required by manager.
What We Look For
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 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.
Bonus Points
Experience with NGINX/OpenResty/Kong/LuaJIT.
Experience with Envoy or Istio.
Understanding of VM implementations like eBPF and/or WASM.
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What position is Kong Inc. hiring for?
Kong Inc. is hiring a remote Sr. Software Engineer, API Gateway (Europe) from 🇪🇺 Europe
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