Full-Time

Senior Software Engineer

API Gateway, Europe, Remote

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Kong

Kong

501-1,000 employees

API management and connectivity solutions provider

Data & Analytics
Enterprise Software

Senior

Remote in UK

Fully remote for candidates in Europe; hiring in Ireland, Italy, Spain, Germany, Netherlands, Poland, Sweden, France, or the United Kingdom.

Category
Backend Engineering
Software Engineering
Required Skills
Rust
Python
Ruby
Perl
Nginx
Lua
Linux/Unix
Requirements
  • 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 programming low-level networking systems: Nginx and/or Openresty are preferred but others like Apache are also valid.
  • Experience in any of the following: IdP/AuthZ systems and integration, monitoring and profiling systems, network traffic inspection.
  • Optional, but highly sought after: 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.
  • Experience with NGINX/OpenResty/Kong/LuaJIT.
  • Experience with Envoy or Istio.
  • Understanding of VM implementations like eBPF and/or WASM.
Responsibilities
  • Work with the Product management team to identify and implement enhancements.
  • Propose and Implement POCs and prototypes for networking software in rust.
  • 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 the manager.

Kong specializes in managing and connecting APIs, which are tools that allow different software applications to communicate. Its main product, the Kong Gateway, is a fast and flexible API gateway that efficiently handles API traffic, supporting up to 50,000 transactions per second per node. Additionally, Kong offers Kong Konnect, a SaaS platform for API management, and Kong Mesh, which helps manage microservices—small services that work together in larger applications. Kong serves a wide range of clients, from startups to large enterprises, across various industries like finance and healthcare. What sets Kong apart from competitors is its combination of open-source technology and enterprise solutions, allowing businesses to access core features for free while offering premium services for those needing more support. The goal of Kong is to enhance developer productivity, improve security, and optimize performance for businesses using cloud-native architectures.

Company Stage

Series E

Total Funding

$334.7M

Headquarters

San Francisco, California

Founded

2017

Growth & Insights
Headcount

6 month growth

9%

1 year growth

16%

2 year growth

17%
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Simplify's Take

What believers are saying

  • Kong's recent executive hires, including a Chief People Officer, Chief Revenue Officer, and Chief Customer Officer, indicate a strong focus on scaling and enhancing customer and employee experiences.
  • The launch of Kong Konnect Dedicated Cloud Gateways on AWS simplifies API management with zero downtime and one-click deployment, enhancing user experience and operational efficiency.
  • Kong's open-source initiatives, such as the Kong Gateway Operator for Kubernetes, continue to foster community engagement and innovation.

What critics are saying

  • The rapid growth and scaling efforts may lead to operational challenges and integration issues.
  • The competitive landscape in API management is intense, with major players like Google and Amazon posing significant threats.

What makes Kong unique

  • Kong's combination of open-source and enterprise-grade solutions offers flexibility and scalability that many competitors lack.
  • The Kong Gateway's ability to handle up to 50,000 transactions per second per node sets a high-performance benchmark in the API management industry.
  • Kong's focus on cloud-native environments and Kubernetes-native management positions it as a leader in modern API connectivity solutions.

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