Senior Go Engineer, Konnect Control Plane

Kong; Italia; In loco; EUR 70.000 - 95.000; Tempo pieno

Descrizione del lavoro

Kong is hiring a Software Engineer to join the Konnect Control Plane team. You will architect the next-generation cloud-hosted control plane that manages global customer configurations, ensuring high availability, speed, and seamless connectivity for Kong's flagship service connectivity platform.

You will design and scale microservices, implement low-latency APIs, and drive solutions for complex technical problems while maintaining automated tests and on-call reliability.

Competenze

• 3+ years in distributed software within a team environment.
• Strong Go and relational database design experience.
• Practical experience building, debugging and maintaining microservices at scale.
• Experience with Kubernetes and large-scale SaaS platforms; observability focus.
• Familiarity with API lifecycle management, testing frameworks, and CI/CD practices.

Mansioni

• Architect and scale microservices powering Kong Konnect's control plane.
• Design, implement, and maintain high-performance, low-latency APIs and services.
• Drive solutions for moderately complex problems, managing technical debt.
• Write robust automated tests to prevent regressions and ensure quality.
• Own production reliability; participate in on-call and incident response.
• Collaborate with Product Management, Solutions Architects, and cross-functional teams.

Conoscenze

Go (Golang)

Relational databases

Microservices architecture

Kubernetes

DevOps/Observability

L4/L7 proxies (Nginx/Envoy)

Testing (TDD)

Communication skills

Descrizione del lavoro

Kong is hiring a Software Engineer to join the Konnect Control Plane team. You will architect the next-generation cloud-hosted control plane that manages global customer configurations, ensuring high availability, speed, and seamless connectivity for Kong's flagship service connectivity platform.

You will design and scale microservices, implement low-latency APIs, and drive solutions for complex technical problems while maintaining automated tests and on-call reliability.