Senior Software Engineer, API Gateway - Europe (Remote)
Kong
Description Kong is an Open-Core project. Its foundation is the Open-source API Gateway. On top of that there is an Enterprise Gateway, which extends and improves it. The Enterprise Gateway is the central piece of the Kong ecosystem, which includes other pieces of software and infrastructure that add even more value. Your main responsibility will be developing, maintaining and extending the Kong Gateway, on both its Open-source and the Enterprise versions. You will engage with the Open Source community, and work closely with other teams in the company to improve it. You will be responsible for building foundations for other teams and customers, discovering and producing cutting edge industry trends and use-cases.
Responsibilities
- Work with the Product management team to identify and implement enhancements.
- Work closely with engineering teams to architecture, design, and understand upcoming new features.
- Bug fixing, performance tuning and low-level optimizations.
- Engage with the open source community.
- Provide help to the support and escalation teams.
- Mentoring and pairing with other team members.
Requirements
- Comfortable working in a remote distributed team, with minimal supervision.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
- Solid hands-on low-level technical expertise for Linux systems troubleshooting, and profiling.
- Experience in IdP/AuthZ systems and integration, monitoring and profiling systems, network traffic inspection.
- At least 2 years of experience working with Rust.
- Experience designing, prototyping, building and debugging applications that are highly scalable, distributed, reliable and resilient.
- Familiarity with a scripting language. Lua would be the ideal, but Perl, Python, or Ruby also serve.
- You've spent time developing and supporting a large scale SaaS platform.
- You have at least 5-ish years working in a team to develop, package and deliver server-side applications and components.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with NGINX/OpenResty/Kong/LuaJIT.
- Experience with Envoy or Istio.
- Understanding of VM implementations like eBPF and/or WASM.
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