Senior Go Engineer — Cloud Control Plane

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

Job summary

Kong is seeking a Software Engineer for the Konnect Control Plane to architect and scale cloud-hosted services that manage global customer configurations. You will design low-latency APIs and microservices, drive reliability, and participate in on-call rotations to protect uptime.

You will collaborate with PMs and cross-functional teams, leverage Go, Kubernetes, and modern DevOps practices to deliver high-quality software, reduce technical debt, and enable developers worldwide.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in a distributed software environment.
• Strong proficiency in Go and relational data models.
• Experience building, debugging, and maintaining microservices at scale.
• Familiarity with Kubernetes, Docker, and cloud-native tooling.

Responsibilities

• Architect and scale microservices powering Kong Konnect’s cloud-hosted control plane.
• Design, implement, and maintain low-latency APIs/services for developer delight.
• Prevent regressions with automated tests and manage production reliability/On-call rotation.
• Collaborate with Product, Solutions Architects, and cross-functional teams to ship impactful features.

Skills

Go (Golang)

Kubernetes

Distributed systems

API design

Testing (TDD)

On-call support

Communication

DevOps observability

Tools

Nginx

Envoy

OpenResty

LuaJIT

Datadog

OpenTelemetry

Job description

Kong is seeking a Software Engineer for the Konnect Control Plane to architect and scale cloud-hosted services that manage global customer configurations. You will design low-latency APIs and microservices, drive reliability, and participate in on-call rotations to protect uptime.

You will collaborate with PMs and cross-functional teams, leverage Go, Kubernetes, and modern DevOps practices to deliver high-quality software, reduce technical debt, and enable developers worldwide.