Software Engineer, AI Gateway

October 22

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Kong Inc.

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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.

201 - 500 employees

Founded 2017

🔌 API

☁️ SaaS

🏢 Enterprise

💰 $100M Series D on 2021-02

📋 Description

• Responsible for building and maintaining API management software for AI and LLMs and its underlying stack. • Implement new innovative features including proxying capabilities, load balancing, databases support that extend Kong AI Gateway’s offering. • Bugs troubleshooting, performance tuning and low-level optimizations. • Fill the gaps between Kong and third-party deployment platforms and tooling. • Any additional tasks required by manager.

🎯 Requirements

• 3+ years of programming in server-side applications and components. • Experience 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. • Hands on experience with Rust.

🏖️ Benefits

• Flexible work arrangements