Golang Backend Engineer - Core Platform & IAM

Kong; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 110,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

Kong is seeking a Software Engineer to join the IAM Team, building scalable backend services for Kong Konnect and the Developer Portal. You will develop Golang microservices handling identity management, access control, and permissions enforcement for a multi-tenant platform.

You'll learn IAM technologies while contributing to production systems at scale on AWS and Kubernetes, collaborating with security teams and product managers to deliver secure, high-availability software.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of professional software engineering experience building backend services and distributed systems.
• Strong proficiency in Golang with experience building production microservices.
• Strong experience with API development and design (REST, gRPC) and building API-first services.
• Experience building and deploying microservices architectures in production environments.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain backend microservices in Golang that power authentication and authorization for Kong Konnect and Developer Portal.
• Build scalable APIs that integrate identity and access management capabilities across Kong's product ecosystem.
• Deploy and manage services on AWS using Kubernetes for container orchestration and high availability.
• Implement secure, performant backend services that handle high-volume traffic and enforce access control policies.
• Collaborate with senior engineers and security teams to learn and implement IAM best practices.
• Work with product managers and other engineering teams to deliver features that enhance developer and enterprise user experiences.
• Write clean, maintainable, well-tested code with comprehensive unit, integration, and end-to-end tests.
• Participate in code reviews, design discussions, and architecture planning.
• Monitor and optimize service performance, reliability, and security through observability tools and continuous improvement.
• Participate in on-call rotation to ensure high availability of platform services.
• Contribute to building a culture of engineering excellence and security-first development.

Skills

Golang

Backend services

Distributed systems

REST API design

gRPC

AWS

Kubernetes

Security best practices

CI/CD

GitHub Actions

Problem solving

Collaboration

Tools

GitHub Actions

Jenkins

Kubernetes

AWS

Terraform

Datadog

Job description

Kong is seeking a Software Engineer to join the IAM Team, building scalable backend services for Kong Konnect and the Developer Portal. You will develop Golang microservices handling identity management, access control, and permissions enforcement for a multi-tenant platform.

You'll learn IAM technologies while contributing to production systems at scale on AWS and Kubernetes, collaborating with security teams and product managers to deliver secure, high-availability software.