Senior Software Engineer, API Gateway - Shanghai

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.

• Responsible for designing, building and maintaining API management software and its underlying stack.

• Architecture, design, and implement new innovative features including proxying capabilities, load balancing, databases support that extend Kong’s offering.

• Bugs troubleshooting, performance tuning and low-level optimizations. Engage with open source community and extend Kong core to support the latest industry trends.

• Fill the gaps between Kong and third-party deployment platforms and tooling.

• And any additional tasks required by manager.

• 5+ years of programming in server-side applications and components.

• Experience designing, prototyping, building and debugging applications that are highly scalable, distributed, reliable and resilient.

• Solid hands-on low-level technical expertise in Linux systems troubleshooting, and profiling.

• Experience in distributed systems, Linux networking stack and computer systems programming, Kong works with APIs on both L7 and L4 transports and protocols, so this expertise and knowledge are required.

• Comfortable working with a remotely distributed team.

• Strong sense of ownership and excellent verbal and written communication skills -- engineers at Kong write the documentation for their products

• Familiarity with AI LLM concepts and applications development

• Hands on experience with NGINX/OpenResty/Kong/LuaJIT.

• Hands on experience with Envoy or Istio.

• Hands on experience with Rust

Kong Inc., the AI Connectivity Company, is building the connectivity layer of AI. Trusted by the Fortune 500® and AI-native startups alike, Kong’s unified API and AI platform enables organizations to secure, manage, accelerate, govern, and monetize the flow of intelligence across APIs and AI traffic — on any model, any cloud. For more information, visit www.konghq.com.