AI Gateway Engineer - Build Scalable APIs & LLMs

Kong

Lombardia

Remote

EUR 65,000 - 110,000

Full time

3 days ago

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Job summary

Kong is seeking a backend engineer to join the team building the Kong AI gateway, enabling worldwide developers to govern AI and LLM-based innovations. You will build and maintain API management components, implement new features, and optimize performance for highly scalable, distributed systems.

The role requires 3+ years of server-side experience, proficiency in Golang or Rust, strong Linux skills, and a drive to own and document your work.

Qualifications

3+ years of programming in server-side applications and components.
Hands on experience with either Golang or Rust.
Experience building and debugging applications that are highly scalable, distributed, reliable and resilient.
Solid hands-on low-level technical expertise in Linux systems troubleshooting, and profiling.
Experience in distributed systems, Linux networking stack and computer systems programming.
Comfortable working with a remotely distributed team.
Strong sense of ownership and excellent verbal and written communication skills -- engineers at Kong write the documentation for their products.
Familiarity with AI LLM concepts and applications development.

Responsibilities

Responsible for building and maintaining API management software for AI and LLMs and its underlying stack.
Implement new innovative features including proxying capabilities, load balancing, databases support that extend Kong AI Gateway’s offering.
Bugs troubleshooting, performance tuning and low-level optimizations.
Fill the gaps between Kong and third-party deployment platforms and tooling.
Any additional tasks required by manager.