Job Description

• India

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.

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. 

Why should you want to work at Kong?  

Market Opportunity - We are on a quest to build a $10b+ software company over the next few years and need YOUR help!

Why APIs Matter? APIs have been enabling innovation for decades!

Strong VC team, Series D, strong year over year revenue growth!

Technical Leadership - We are recognized as the leader in innovation in the connectivity space.

Marco, our CTO/co-founder - “We are the Cisco of L4 and L7” - CUBE Conversation, March 2021

We are the leading innovator in the connectivity space!

Amazing Team & Culture - Come be a "Konger" and find out what we mean.

Great Place to Work Certified in 2020 & 2021

Kong employees exemplify our culture at our 2022 Sales Kickoff

Building Great Products - Learn why the world's largest companies love our tech!

Kong Named a Leader in the 2022 Gartner Magic Quadrant

Over 250m+ downloads of our open source API gateway!  Over 60k+ stars on Github between Kong API and Kong Insomnia!

What you'll do:

Implement and maintain services that power Konnect. Examples include notification, authentication, authorization, search, and more.

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.

And any additional tasks required by manager.

What you'll bring:

• 2+ years working in and across agile scrum teams to develop, deliver, and maintain complex software solutions.
• Experience designing, prototyping, building and debugging microservices architectures and distributed systems.
• Experience developing and supporting a large scale SaaS platform.
• Experience in designing and writing APIs (in GoLang), and a firm grasp of API lifecycle management.
• Experience with data modeling in relational and no-SQL databases.
• Understanding of and development with git and Github workflows.
• Experience in test-driven development and automated testing.
• Working knowledge of containerization and Kubernetes.
• A product-oriented approach to problem-solving and prioritizing work.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.

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.