Senior Go Engineer - API Platforms & IaC Tools

Kong; United States; Remote; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Kong is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to build high-performance Go runtime and CLI engines. You will architect state management drift detection and SDK tooling used across Kong’s runtimes, including REST/gRPC/OpenAPI contracts and automated spec-driven tooling for SDKs and IaC definitions.

You will balance software development with APIOps, focusing on scalable, multi-tenant API topologies, and contribute to Terraform provider ecosystems and next-gen runtimes.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of software engineering experience designing and delivering production-grade backend systems and developer tools using Golang.
• API Design mastery with REST, gRPC, OpenAPI focusing on backwards compatibility and DX.
• Hands-on IaC / Platform understanding with Terraform provider development, Kubernetes operators or stateful CI/CD automation pipelines.

Responsibilities

• Own declarative Engine State Drift Management Engines: design and optimize Go algorithms for state diffing and real-time drift detection.
• Architect enterprise-grade Go SDKs used by internal microservices and external clients to interface with the Konnect SaaS platform.
• Define clean, extensible API contracts and architect tooling to generate SDKs, client libraries and IaC definitions.

Skills

Golang

APIOps

CLI tooling

CI/CD

Tools

Terraform Provider

Kubernetes Operators

OpenAPI tooling

Job description

Kong is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to build high-performance Go runtime and CLI engines. You will architect state management drift detection and SDK tooling used across Kong’s runtimes, including REST/gRPC/OpenAPI contracts and automated spec-driven tooling for SDKs and IaC definitions.

You will balance software development with APIOps, focusing on scalable, multi-tenant API topologies, and contribute to Terraform provider ecosystems and next-gen runtimes.