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.

What you'll do:

Implement and maintain services that power Konnect, mainly focus on the Gateway observability and diagnosability backend services
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
Collaborate with Kong Manager team, performance team and platform team to facilitate end-to-end delivery of new features

What you'll bring:

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 Kafka
Expertise 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
Expertise with data modeling in relational databases and no-SQL 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

Kong

Senior Software Engineer, Backend

Shanghai, China 🇨🇳full-time