Senior Backend Engineer — Scale Cloud API Platform

KONG; Toronto; On-site; CAD 140,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Kong is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join the Platform Team in building scalable backend services. You will own search infrastructure, real-time notification systems, and audit logging, while developing MCP tools to extend platform capabilities.

Bring 5+ years of backend experience, Golang expertise, and strong knowledge of distributed systems to help scale Kong's API-first platform across global customers.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience building backend services and distributed systems.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain search infrastructure and query systems powering product discovery and analytics.

Skills

5+ years experience

Golang

Distributed systems

Search infrastructure

Event-driven architecture

Databases

API design

Microservices

Container orchestration

Messaging systems

CI/CD

GitHub/JIRA/Confluence

Distributed teams

Debugging complex systems

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

GitHub Actions

Jira

Confluence

Job description

Kong is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join the Platform Team in building scalable backend services. You will own search infrastructure, real-time notification systems, and audit logging, while developing MCP tools to extend platform capabilities.

Bring 5+ years of backend experience, Golang expertise, and strong knowledge of distributed systems to help scale Kong's API-first platform across global customers.