Senior Software Engineer, API Gateway - Shanghai

Kong; United States; Híbrido; USD 170.000 - 260.000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

Kong is seeking a Systems Engineer to join the Core Team in the United States. You will design, build, and maintain API management software and its underlying stack, focusing on proxying, load balancing, and database support.

You will work with a remotely distributed team, own features end-to-end, and contribute to open source through debugging, performance tuning, and documentation.

Formación

• 5+ years of server-side programming experience.
• Experience building scalable, distributed systems.
• Strong Linux troubleshooting and profiling skills.
• Familiarity with API gateways and L7/L4 transports.

Responsabilidades

• Design, build, and maintain API management software and stack.
• Architect and implement new features including proxying capabilities, load balancing, databases support that extend Kong’s offering.
• Troubleshoot bugs, performance tune, and low-level optimizations; engage with open source community.
• Fill the gaps between Kong and third-party deployment platforms and tooling.
• Collaborate with a remote team and document work clearly.

Conocimientos

Server-side programming

Distributed systems

Linux troubleshooting

APIs & networking (L7/L4)

Remote collaboration

Documentation writing

AI/LLM concepts

Descripción del empleo

Are you ready to unlock intelligence?

About the Role:
Kong is an open-source project with a global adoption around the world. Developers and architects are adopting Kong in production among a large variety of use-cases, and actively help make Kong a better product with their feedback and contributions.
As a Systems Engineer in the Core Team, you will be working on core features such as proxying capabilities, load balancing, and database support with forward-thinking. You will be responsible for building foundations for other teams and customers, discovering and producing cutting edge industry trends and use-cases.
What You'll Do:

• Responsible for designing, building and maintaining API management software and its underlying stack.

• Architecture, design, and implement new innovative features including proxying capabilities, load balancing, databases support that extend Kong’s offering.

• Bugs troubleshooting, performance tuning and low-level optimizations. Engage with open source community and extend Kong core to support the latest industry trends.

• Fill the gaps between Kong and third-party deployment platforms and tooling.

• And any additional tasks required by manager.

What You'll Bring:

• 5+ years of programming in server-side applications and components.

• Experience designing, prototyping, building and debugging applications that are highly scalable, distributed, reliable and resilient.

• Solid hands-on low-level technical expertise in Linux systems troubleshooting, and profiling.

• Experience in distributed systems, Linux networking stack and computer systems programming, Kong works with APIs on both L7 and L4 transports and protocols, so this expertise and knowledge are required.

• Comfortable working with a remotely distributed team.

• Strong sense of ownership and excellent verbal and written communication skills -- engineers at Kong write the documentation for their products

• Familiarity with AI LLM concepts and applications development

Bonus Points:

• Hands on experience with NGINX/OpenResty/Kong/LuaJIT.

• Hands on experience with Envoy or Istio.

• Hands on experience with Rust

About Kong:

Kong Inc., the AI Connectivity Company, is building the connectivity layer of AI. Trusted by the Fortune 500® and AI-native startups alike, Kong’s unified API and AI platform enables organizations to secure, manage, accelerate, govern, and monetize the flow of intelligence across APIs and AI traffic — on any model, any cloud. For more information, visit www.konghq.com.