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Kong
Actively Hiring
Kong’s unified cloud API platform delivers fast, reliable, secure digital experiences
  • B2B
  • Scale Stage
    Rapidly increasing operations
  • Top Investors
    This company has received a significant amount of investment from top investors
  • +5

Software Engineer - API Operations

Posted: 5 months ago
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About the job

If you don’t think you meet all of the criteria below but are still interested in the job, please apply. Nobody checks every box - we’re looking for candidates that are particularly strong in a few areas, and have some interest and capabilities in others.

About the role:

Thousands of organizations have adopted the Kong API Gateway, the most popular open-source API gateway. Since Kong is used by platform and SRE teams, it comes with tight integration with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tooling like Terraform, Pulumi, and Kubernetes. Such integrations and tooling are prerequisites for starting and operating Kong Gateway and the larger API ecosystem surrounding it. “API Operations” (API-Ops for short) team builds developer-first experiences and tools that are run more than a few million times every day of the year.

Some of the products that this team works on:

  • decK: Declarative configuration management tool for Kong Gateway
  • Terraform-provider: Terraform provider for Kong Konnect - Kong’s SaaS product
  • SDK for Go: Go SDK for Kong Konnect
  • SDK for TS: TypeScript SDK for Kong Konnect
  • SDKs in other languages and tooling to generate SDKs from APIs
  • API specification and tooling for all products of Kong
  • Build a CLI-first experience for Kong Konnect

Some problems that you will solve when you come on board:

  • Create CLI-first experiences and products that help our users (who are always engineers themselves).
  • Make a CLI tool work for humans as well as automation (inside Github Actions, Jenkins, etc.)
  • Ship API changes to multiple tools at the same time without manual toil
  • Make and consistently raise the bar for world-class APIs for a company that helps the world build and run APIs

We love to work together, so this opportunity is a hybrid one. What does that mean?We come to the office three days a week and work from home the other two days. Life happens, and we are cool if you need to work remotely sometime.

You can find a few more details on what kind of background we are looking for:

  • Communication skills. We care a lot about how you interact with others, so we've included this at the top of this list.
  • Prior operations (DevOps/SRE) experience. We are building products for other operations engineers, so if you have been an operations engineer (of any sort), that helps you write code much more effectively.
  • Experience building Terraform providers, Pulumi providers, and Kubernetes Operators.
  • Good understanding of CI pipelines and engineering automation workflows. Most of our tools run in CI pipelines worldwide.
  • Experience building APIs, standardizing APIs in large organizations, and creating API workflows. At the very least, you know what OpenAPI specifications are and the problem they solve.
  • We program in Go. Prior experience in a similar language is good, but we don’t care if you have used Go specifically before as long as you can pick it up.
  • 5+ years working in a team to develop, deliver, and maintain complex software solutions.
  • Bachelors or Masters degree in Computer Science.
  • And any additional tasks necessary to make the team and the product successful. This could include participating in team meetings, contributing to product roadmap discussions, and providing technical guidance to team members.

Bonus Points:

  • You have built Command Line Interfaces (CLIs) or other developer-first experiences.
  • Deep experience with OpenAPI specification. You know OpenAPI specifications and all the tricky bits inside it.
  • You have worked with Kong Gateway before.
  • Experience with Open-Source software development.

About the company

Kong company logo

Kong

Actively Hiring
Kong’s unified cloud API platform delivers fast, reliable, secure digital experiences501-1000 Employees
  • B2B
  • Scale Stage
    Rapidly increasing operations
  • Top Investors
    This company has received a significant amount of investment from top investors
  • Valuation $1B+
    This company has a valuation of $1B or more
  • 4.7
    Highly rated
    Kong is highly rated on Glassdoor, with 4.7 out of 5 stars
  • Recently funded
    Raised funding in the past six months
  • 4.4
    Work / Life Balance
    Employees rate Kong 4.4/5 on Glassdoor for work / life balance
  • 4.4
    Strong Leadership
    Employees rate Kong 4.4/5 on Glassdoor for faith in leadership
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Funding

AMOUNT RAISED
$169.1M
FUNDED OVER
7 rounds
Rounds
D
$100,000,000
Series D - Jan 2021+6

Founders

Marco Palladino
Founder • 3 years
San Francisco
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Augusto Marietti
Founder • 3 years
San Francisco
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