Senior Site Reliability Engineer – Volcano

🕒 September 24

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $150k - $170k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

⛑ DevOps & Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)

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Kong Inc.

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201 - 500 employees

Founded 2017

💼 Consulting

📦 Logistics

🔌 API

💰 $100M Series D on 2021-02

Consulting • Logistics • API

Kong Inc. is a company that provides a comprehensive API platform designed to facilitate API management, AI integration, and developer productivity. It offers solutions like Kong Gateway, Kong Konnect, and a variety of other tools targeted at managing and optimizing the API lifecycle. Kong's platform supports multi-cloud environments and is built to deliver high performance and security. It is notably recognized by Gartner as a leader in API management and supports innovations across industries like financial services, healthcare, and technology. The company emphasizes flexibility, security, and speed, making it a favored choice for enterprises looking to enhance their digital services through APIs. Kong also supports a robust community of developers and provides extensive integrations and plugins to streamline API management and operations.

📋 Description

• Define and drive SLOs, error budgets, and incident response practices for all Volcano services • Design and build multi-region Kubernetes infrastructure, networking, and data plane • Establish deployment automation, canary pipelines, and preview environment provisioning using ArgoCD, Helm, and Terraform/Terragrunt • Design, operate, and harden multi-tenant PostgreSQL clusters, Redis caching layers, and object storage • Instrument Volcano services with meaningful SLIs and build dashboards, alerts, and runbooks using Datadog, Prometheus, and Grafana • Collaborate with the OCTO team, product engineering, and security to integrate reliability and compliance into the architecture • Evaluate architectural options for edge runtimes, serverless compute, vector databases, and AI-native infrastructure components

🎯 Requirements

• BS in Computer Science or equivalent • Substantial experience at Staff or Principal IC level in SRE/Platform Engineering • Proven track record building SRE or platform engineering practices for developer-facing platforms or PaaS/SaaS products • Kubernetes expertise, including multi-tenant cluster design, networking (CNI, service mesh, ingress), autoscaling, and security hardening

🏖️ Benefits

• Healthcare benefits • 401(k) plan • Short- and long-term disability benefits • Basic life and AD&D insurance • Additional rewards for eligible roles, including sales incentives where applicable