Senior Software Engineer - AI Gateway

Kong is an open-source project with a global adoption around the world. Developers and architects are adopting Kong in production among a large variety of use-cases, and actively help make Kong a better product with their feedback and contributions. As a Systems Engineer in the Core Team, you will be working on core features such as proxying capabilities, load balancing, and database support with forward-thinking. You will be responsible for building foundations for other teams and customers, discovering and producing cutting edge industry trends and use-cases.

Responsibilities

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

Requirements

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

Nice to have

Hands on experience with NGINX/OpenResty/Kong/LuaJIT; Hands on experience with Envoy or Istio; Hands on experience with Rust