Senior Software Engineer – Golang

🕒 September 14

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $160k - $190k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🧑‍💻 Full-stack Engineer

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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

• Design and build highly scalable distributed backend systems • Develop core services in Golang, focusing on performance and reliability • Work with PostgreSQL and Redis to build robust, data-intensive systems • Architect systems across microservices, networking layers, and cloud platforms • Collaborate with the CTO and senior engineers on strategic technical initiatives • Prototype and productionize new platform capabilities and internal tooling • Influence engineering direction and technical standards across Kong

🎯 Requirements

• Strong production experience with Golang • Experience designing and operating distributed systems at scale • Solid production experience with PostgreSQL and Redis • Experience building backend systems with high availability, scalability, and reliability • Strong systems thinking, debugging, and performance optimization skills • Experience with Kubernetes, networking, or API gateways (bonus) • Experience with AWS, GCP, or Azure (bonus) • Contributions to open source or internal platform tooling (bonus) • Experience working on platform, infrastructure, or developer tooling products (bonus)

🏖️ Benefits

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