Kong

Senior Software Engineer

Karnātaka, India · On-site · FullTime

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EmployerKong
LocationKarnātaka, India
Work styleOn-site
Employment typeFullTime
Employer posted3 hours ago

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Kong’s API Management suite includes the Kong Enterprise Gateway, the Konnect SaaS platform and a variety of Managed Gateways in public clouds like AWS, Azure and GCP. This suite of products helps customers in different industries (like finance, banking, eCommerce, airlines, etc.) manage their API platforms and operations at scale. Our customers expect secure, reliable, high scale, low latency offerings from Kong whether running on-premise or in the public cloud.

About the Role:

As a Senior Software Engineer, you will develop high-performance Go runtime, CLI engines and declarative state managers. You will architect the software that thousands of engineering teams use every day to interact with Kong's runtime — including deck (Kong’s state management & drift detection engine), the Kong Terraform Provider, official Go SDKs and automated spec-driven API tooling.

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What You Will Build & Own:

You will balance Software Development with APIOps Architecture:

1. Declarative Engine

State & Drift Management Engines: Design and optimize algorithms in Go for state diffing, validation, and real-time drift detection across large-scale multi-tenant API topologies.

Go SDK & Core Libraries: Architect and maintain enterprise-grade, high-performance Go SDKs used by Kong’s internal microservices and external clients to interface with the Konnect SaaS platform.

API Design & Standardization: Define clean, extensible REST API contracts across Kong’s platform runtimes.

Code Generation & Tooling Pipelines: Architect spec-driven tooling (OpenAPI/AsyncAPI) to dynamically generate SDKs, client libraries, and IaC definitions without manual developer toil.

2. APIOps & IaC Ecosystem

Core CLI Engineering: Build modern, fast, and intuitive CLI-first developer experiences designed for both human developer workflows and high-concurrency CI/CD automation pipelines (GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins).

Terraform & Provider Ecosystem: Build and extend high-reliability Terraform Providers to enable seamless IaC operations.

Support for Next-Gen Runtimes: Bring new runtime capabilities into the declarative management ecosystem as native API primitives.

What You’ll Bring:

5+ years of software engineering experience designing and delivering production-grade backend systems and developer tools using Golang.

API Design Mastery: Proven experience crafting intuitive, developer-friendly API schemas (REST, gRPC, OpenAPI), with a strong focus on backwards compatibility, versioning and developer experience (DX).

Hands-on IaC / Platform Understanding: Production exposure to Terraform provider development, Kubernetes operators or stateful CI/CD automation pipelines.

Engineering Rigor: Strong commitment to clean code, comprehensive automated testing (unit, integration, end-to-end), benchmarking and robust software architecture.

Communication & Technical Leadership: Ability to articulate complex technical decisions, mentor junior engineers and collaborate across global backend and platform teams.

Why Join Kong?

Build for Engineers: Your work is open-source adjacent and directly impacts millions of developers and Fortune 500 enterprises around the globe.

Solving Deep Technical Problems: Move beyond standard CRUD services to solve high-impact problems in declarative state sync, API governance and distributed connectivity.

High-Growth Pre-IPO Startup: Scale your career alongside a market-leading company driving the future of API management and AI connectivity.

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About Kong:

Kong Inc., the AI Connectivity Company, is building the connectivity layer of AI. Trusted by the Fortune 500® and AI-native startups alike, Kong’s unified API and AI platform enables organizations to secure, manage, accelerate, govern, and monetize the flow of intelligence across APIs and AI traffic — on any model, any cloud. For more information, visit www.konghq.com.

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