The Role
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About the role:
Kong’s API Management suite, Konnect, offers customers the ability to create managed API gateways in any cloud across the world. We offer two flavors of managed gateways Dedicated Cloud Gateways and Serverless Gateways.
Dedicated Cloud Gateways provide organizations with a fully managed, private, and isolated gateway environment that eliminates the complexity of managing infrastructure while ensuring security and compliance. Designed for high performance and scalability, these gateways allow businesses to control traffic flow across their services without sharing resources with other customers. By offering dedicated gateways in the cloud, Kong empowers organizations to maintain the highest levels of reliability and performance while reducing operational overhead. See more at Announcing the GA of Kong Konnect Dedicated Cloud Gateways.
Serverless Gateway offer a fully managed, elastic API gateway solution that meets traffic demands without the need for provisioning or managing any underlying infrastructure. Built to simplify operations and reduce costs, these gateways empower organizations to deploy APIs seamlessly in serverless environments, ensuring efficient resource utilization. Konnect Serverless Gateways: Lightweight, Cost-Effective, and Fully Managed Kong Gateways.
This role is a senior Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) position to both develop and operate the Managed Gateways offerings at high nines of reliability.
This opportunity requires you to work from our office in Bangalore, India in a hybrid manner with three days in the office and two days working from home.
What will you do?
- Own the end-to-end technical success of the Managed Gateways Platform, ensuring it delivers industry-leading features, quality, performance, and reliability.
- Architect and operate software systems to maintain 99.99% uptime SLA.
- Play a pivotal role in shaping the technical direction for the Managed Gateways product by driving innovation.
- Collaborate closely with product leadership to define and refine strategy, roadmap, and objectives for managed gateways, ensuring alignment between engineering efforts and business goals.
- Mentor other engineers in the organization
What You'll Bring
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science or a related field.
- 5+ years of experience in building and operating highly reliable SaaS/PaaS systems.
- Hands-on experience with at least one of the major cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP)
- Strong experience with Kubernetes.
- Familiarity with observability tools such as Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana, Victoria Metrics, Loki, or similar technologies.
- Expertise in designing and developing highly scalable distributed systems
- Strong expertise in networking concepts, particularly OSI Layer 4 (Transport) and Layer 7 (Application) protocols including DNS, TLS/SSL, and HTTP, and public cloud network architectures.
- Experience managing incidents and communicating effectively under high-pressure situations
- Backend development experience (preferably with GoLang)
- 5+ years of experience in SaaS development, specifically operating software with 99.99% reliability or higher.
- Strong verbal and written communication skills to effectively collaborate across teams.
Bonus Points
- Experience with PostgreSQL
- Experience with building and maintaining Kubernetes Controllers
- Experience with working or developing L4/L7 proxies such as Nginx, HA-proxy, Envoy, or others
- Contributions at technical conferences or meetups as a speaker
About Kong
Kong Inc., a leading developer of cloud API technologies, is on a mission to enable companies around the world to become “API-first” and securely accelerate AI adoption. Kong helps organizations globally — from startups to Fortune 500 enterprises — unleash developer productivity, build securely, and accelerate time to market. For more information about Kong, please visit www.konghq.com or follow us on X @thekonginc.
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Fair & Transparent Compensation — Pay is considered competitive for many roles, particularly in senior and technical positions, with bonuses and overtime enhancing earnings for some. Compensation is generally described as strong across a range of functions.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Policies such as flexible time off, company Unplug Days, U‑First Fridays, and a paid sabbatical create multiple avenues for rest and personal development. These offerings support work‑life balance for a distributed workforce.
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Equity Value & Accessibility — Stock options and an employee stock purchase plan enable broad participation in company equity. Equity is positioned as a meaningful component of total rewards alongside cash compensation.
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The Company
What We Do
Kong Inc., a leading developer of cloud API technologies, is on a mission to enable companies around the world to become “API-first” and securely accelerate AI adoption. Kong helps organizations globally — from startups to Fortune 500 enterprises — unleash developer productivity, build securely and accelerate time to market.
Why Work With Us
It starts with how we show up for each other. We’ve created a workplace that’s intentionally flexible, deeply inclusive, and built for meaningful collaboration — whether virtual or in person. We trust our teams to own their work, and we give them the support, tools, and freedom to grow.
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