Engineering Manager, Global Gateways Infra (SaaS)

Kong; United States; Remote; USD 42,000 - 63,000; Full time

Job summary

Kong is seeking a Software Engineering Manager for Managed Gateways Infrastructure in Bangalore. The role focuses on owning and growing a multi-tenant SaaS infrastructure, staying hands-on in critical implementations, and driving reliability and scalability across regions and clouds.

You will shape a fast-paced engineering culture built on urgency, ownership, and first-principles thinking, enabling rapid product iteration and platform innovations for API and AI strategies.

Qualifications

• Proven ability to lead hands-on infrastructure teams
• Experience delivering highly available multi-tenant SaaS platforms
• Strong architecture and incident response skills

Responsibilities

• Own and grow Kong's Managed Gateways Infrastructure engineering team in Bangalore, staying hands-on when needed
• Ensure reliability and scalability of multi-tenant SaaS platform across regions and clouds
• Drive 99.99%+ availability across global deployments (AWS, Azure, GCP)
• Act as direct technical contributor during incidents and critical design reviews

Skills

Cloud infrastructure

SaaS architecture

Incident management

Team leadership

Multi-region deployments

Tools

AWS

GCP

Azure

Job description

Kong is seeking a Software Engineering Manager for Managed Gateways Infrastructure in Bangalore. The role focuses on owning and growing a multi-tenant SaaS infrastructure, staying hands-on in critical implementations, and driving reliability and scalability across regions and clouds.

You will shape a fast-paced engineering culture built on urgency, ownership, and first-principles thinking, enabling rapid product iteration and platform innovations for API and AI strategies.