Staff Site Reliability Engineer – Project Volcano

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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

• Own reliability for Volcano end-to-end: Define and drive SLOs, error budgets, and incident response practices for all Volcano services • Architect the platform's infrastructure: Design and build the multi-region Kubernetes infrastructure • Build the GitOps and CI/CD backbone: Establish deployment automation, canary pipelines, and preview environment provisioning • Scale managed data services: Design, operate, and harden multi-tenant PostgreSQL clusters • Drive observability from day one: Instrument every Volcano service with meaningful SLIs • Lead cross-functional reliability work: Collaborate with the OCTO team, product engineering, and security to bake reliability into Volcano's architecture • Set SRE culture and standards: Mentor engineers on reliability principles; lead postmortems • Evaluate and adopt emerging technologies: Given Volcano's greenfield nature, evaluate 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 • Deep Kubernetes expertise: multi-tenant cluster design, networking (CNI, service mesh, ingress), autoscaling, and security hardening.

🏖️ Benefits

• Flexible work arrangements • Professional development opportunities