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About the role:The education team at Kong sits at the crucial intersection of engineering, product, and customer success. Their primary mission is to translate Kong's highly complex, cloud-native technologies into accessible, engaging learning experiences for global enterprise customers, partners, and internal staff.
You will be working with a small, tightly knit education team based in the UK, who have deep knowledge of Kong products and curriculum development. This team is responsible for creating and delivering both online and instructor-led training to Kong customers and partners.
As a curriculum developer, you will design hands-on labs and coursework covering the full API lifecycle, distilling complex cloud-native architectures, service meshes, and technologies like Kubernetes, Go, and Lua into digestible modules.
Your educational content will have a massive global impact, directly empowering enterprise architects, DevOps engineers, and the open-source community to master the critical infrastructure powering billions of daily API transactions.
Working with a diverse team of people from all over the world
Building curriculums and associated training materials to support our internal and external training needs
Partnering with engineering and product management to understand our technical capabilities and developing content to enable technical audiences to understand how to best leverage our capabilities
Producing quality learning content including but not limited to presentation slides, instructor guides, lab instructions, assessment and credential questions, videos and course descriptions for both web-based training and instructor-led training
Deliver in-person and virtual instructor-led training offerings to diverse audiences, including engineers, solutions architects, managers and operations personnel
Analyzing customer training requirements
Developing appropriate learning objectives and test methods
Develops flow diagrams and storyboards.
Maintaining current knowledge of relevant technology as assigned.
Show passion and determination about technology
Enjoy working with others and collaborating
Self-awareness and strong communication skills are a must
Thrive in an agile work environment that requires flexibility and self-direction
Excellent organization, time management, and attention to detail
Proven ability to meet deadlines and prioritize multiple projects and deliverables
Understanding of Instructional Design Theories and experience using them
Prior experience in API management preferred
5+ years developing curriculum for technical or software training courses, including instructor-led materials, self-paced e-learning modules, and job aids
Proficient in Linux environments including Cloud and Development tooling (e.g. GitHub)
Proven ability to write and edit content for the purpose of knowledge transfer and skill development; this includes collaborating with subject matter experts, instructors, and other stakeholders to explain technical concepts in simple terms
Excellent grammar, punctuation, and formatting skills
Demonstrated ability to apply adult learning principles to curriculum design and the development process
Ability to cater to multiple learning methods and to match the appropriate methods with the subject matter and audience
Experience working with a content management system, knowledge base, and/or online reference for learning
Can explain the benefits of using APIs and API governance clearly and concisely to both technical and non-technical stakeholders
Ability to travel to customer and Kong locations as needed
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About Kong:
Kong Inc., a leading developer of API and AI connectivity technologies, is building the infrastructure that powers the agentic era. Trusted by the Fortune 500 and startups alike, Kong's unified API and AI platform, Kong Konnect, enables organizations to secure, manage, accelerate, govern, and monetize the flow of intelligence across APIs and AI models. For more information, visit www.konghq.com.
Skills Required
- 5+ years developing curriculum for technical or software training courses, including instructor-led materials and e-learning modules
- Understanding of Instructional Design theories and experience applying them
- Proven ability to write and edit content for knowledge transfer and skill development
- Proficient in Linux environments and cloud/development tooling (e.g., GitHub)
- Demonstrated ability to apply adult learning principles to curriculum design
- Experience producing presentation slides, instructor guides, lab instructions, assessments, videos and course descriptions
- Experience working with a content management system, knowledge base, or online learning reference
- Ability to deliver in-person and virtual instructor-led training to technical audiences
- Excellent grammar, punctuation, formatting, organization, time management, and attention to detail
- Can explain benefits of using APIs and API governance to technical and non-technical stakeholders
- Prior experience in API management
- Ability to travel to customer and Kong locations as needed
Kong Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Kong and has not been reviewed or approved by Kong.
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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.
Kong Insights
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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