Senior Control Plane Engineer — Go & Distributed Systems

KONG; Milano; On-site; EUR 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Kong Inc. is seeking a Senior Go Engineer to design and implement core features for the Gateway Control Plane. You will own end-to-end service lifecycles and drive architectural decisions to ensure high availability and performance at scale.

You will collaborate with product and engineering teams, mentor others, and contribute to a world-class developer experience for enterprise-grade Kong deployments.

Qualifications

• Significant experience writing and deploying production services in Golang.
• Strong understanding of distributed systems and microservices design.
• Hands-on Kubernetes and cloud-native ecosystem experience.
• Familiarity with relational databases (PostgreSQL) and CI/CD pipelines.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement core features for Kong Gateway Control Plane using Golang.
• Own the full lifecycle of services from design to deployment and operations.
• Lead architectural discussions to minimize debt and ensure uptime.

Skills

Golang production services

Distributed systems

Kubernetes

APIs design

PostgreSQL

CI/CD

Tools

Kubernetes

PostgreSQL

Job description

Kong Inc. is seeking a Senior Go Engineer to design and implement core features for the Gateway Control Plane. You will own end-to-end service lifecycles and drive architectural decisions to ensure high availability and performance at scale.

You will collaborate with product and engineering teams, mentor others, and contribute to a world-class developer experience for enterprise-grade Kong deployments.