Site Reliability Engineer

🕒 August 25

☕ Washington – Remote

☕ Washington – Remote

💵 $123k - $150k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 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

• Operate and scale Kong’s global SaaS platform, Konnect, across regions and clouds • Build, automate, and maintain Kubernetes-based infrastructure and deployment workflows using Terraform/Terragrunt, Helm, and ArgoCD • Design, maintain, and optimize multi-region PostgreSQL, Redis, ClickHouse, and Druid data and caching layers • Operate and improve Kong Gateway and Kong Mesh environments • Develop and maintain CI/CD pipelines and GitOps workflows • Enhance observability and incident response readiness using Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana, and Thanos; define and track SLOs • Collaborate with development and security teams to operate SaaS services in compliance with reliability, security, and regulatory standards • Participate in a global 24/7 on-call rotation and improve operational playbooks and postmortem practices • Lead and contribute to scaling initiatives that improve elasticity, reliability, and cost-efficiency

🎯 Requirements

• BS in Computer Science or equivalent practical experience • Proven experience managing SaaS or PaaS systems at enterprise scale • Deep expertise in Kubernetes, including debugging cluster/networking issues and designing for fault tolerance and scalability • Strong proficiency with Terraform or Terragrunt • Experience with CI/CD pipelines and GitOps workflows, including ArgoCD, Atlantis, and Helm • Proficiency in Go, Python, or Bash • Solid understanding of Linux/Unix systems, DNS, TLS/SSL, HTTP, load balancers, and distributed systems • Experience working with API gateway and service mesh technologies • Familiarity with Kafka and observability platforms such as Datadog, Prometheus, and Grafana • Experience working in a 24/7/365 production support environment • Legally authorized to work in the country where this position will be worked

🏖️ Benefits

• Health, dental, and vision insurance • Paid holidays and PTO • Professional development opportunities and tools

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