Senior Software Engineer, Control Plane

🕒 December 1, 2025

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Kong Inc.

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201 - 500 employees

Founded 2017

🔌 API

☁️ SaaS

🏢 Enterprise

💰 $100M Series D on 2021-02

API • SaaS • Enterprise

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

• Implement and maintain services that power Konnect, such as Kong's cloud-hosted control plane. • Contribute to Kong's Cloud and Enterprise services. • Design and implement solutions to technical problems of moderate complexity. • Support those services in production by participating in an on-call rotation. • Write automated tests to ensure behavior of code and avoid regressions. • Mentor other team members. • And any additional tasks required by the manager.

🎯 Requirements

• 5+ years working in a team to develop, deliver, and maintain complex software solutions. • Experience in Go. • Experience designing, prototyping, building and debugging microservices architectures and distributed systems. • Experience performing DevOps monitoring and observability. • Experience with working or developing L4/L7 proxies such as Nginx, HA-proxy, Envoy, or others. • Experience developing and supporting a large scale SaaS platform; with working knowledge of containerization and Kubernetes. • Expertise in designing and writing APIs, and a firm grasp of API lifecycle management. • Expertise with data modeling in relational databases. • Understanding of and development with git and Github workflows. • Expertise in test-driven development and automated testing. • Excellent verbal and written communication skills.

🏖️ Benefits

• Health insurance • 401(k) plan • Short and long term disability benefits • Basic life and AD&D insurance