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Hybrid
Bangalore, Bengaluru Urban, Karnataka
Senior level
Hybrid
Bangalore, Bengaluru Urban, Karnataka
Senior level
As a Senior Software Engineer, you'll design, develop, and maintain microservices for Kong Konnect, collaborate with Product Management and Engineering teams, support services in production, and mentor team members, all while writing automated tests to ensure code quality.
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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. 


This opportunity is hybrid with 3 days in office and 2 days work from home

What you'll do:

  • Implement and maintain services that power Konnect, such as Kong's cloud-hosted control plane.
  • Contribute to Kong's Cloud and Enterprise services.
  • 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 behavior of code and avoid regressions.
  • Mentor other team members.
  • And any additional tasks required by manager.

What you'll bring:

  • Bachelors or Masters degree in Computer Science.
  • 5+ years working in a team to develop, deliver, and maintain complex software solutions.
  • Expert understanding of Go programming language and experience in working on large scale Go codebase
  • Experience designing, prototyping, building and debugging microservices architectures and distributed systems.
  • Experience baking in monitoring and observability into the code for availability, resilience and performance of the code
  • Experience with object storage like S3 as well as streaming systems like KafkaExpertise in designing and writing APIs, and a firm grasp of API lifecycle management.
  • Experience developing and supporting a large scale SaaS platform; with working knowledge of containerization and Kubernetes.
  • Experience with public cloud providers like AWS, GCP or Azure.
  • Experience with object storage like S3 as well as streaming systems like KafkaExpertise in designing and writing APIs, and a firm grasp of API lifecycle management.
  • Expertise with data modeling in relational databases.
  • Understanding of and development with git and Github workflows.
  • Expertise in test-driven development and automated testing.
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills.

Bonus Points:

  • Deep experience with Go; effective go standards.
  • Experience with NGINX/OpenResty/Kong/LuaJIT.
  • Experience with Datadog/OpenTelemetry.
  • Experience contributing to Open Source Software projects.
  • Experience with working or developing L4/L7 proxies such as Nginx, HA-proxy, Envoy, or others.
  • Experience with hybrid deployments and compatibility between schemas across versions.

  • We love to work together, so this opportunity is a hybrid one. What does that mean?We come to the office three days a week and work from home the other two days. Life happens, and we are cool if you need to work remotely sometime.

About Kong: 


Kong is THE cloud native API platform with the fastest, most adopted API gateway in the world (over 300m downloads!). As the innovation leader of cloud API technologies, Kong is on a mission to enable companies around the world to become "API-first" and securely accelerate AI adoption. Kong helps organizations globally - from startups to Fortune 500 enterprises - unleash developer productivity, build securely and accelerate to market.


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.


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