Software Engineer 2, AI Gateway
Pubblicato il 27-10-2026 - Kong in La Spezia
Overview
Join the AI Gateway engineering team to help build and evolve Kong's API management stack for AI and LLM workloads. You will shape core features like multi-LLM routing, semantic caching, and high-scale components, partnering with a distributed team to deliver reliable, low-latency capabilities. You’ll work on proxying, load balancing, and platform integrations, driving performance and robustness. This role offers the chance to influence how enterprises govern AI-driven API traffic at scale. A strong candidate brings hands-on systems expertise and a proactive, ownership-driven approach.
Retribuzione / Benefits
- Equity
- Premio
- Health, dental, and vision insurance
- Paid holidays and PTO
- Professional development opportunities
Responsabilità
- Build and maintain API management software for AI/LLM stacks
- Develop features such as proxying, load balancing, and database support for Kong AI Gateway
- Troubleshoot bugs, tune performance,
and perform low-level optimizations
- Bridge Kong with third-party deployment platforms and tooling
- Handle additional tasks as assigned by management
Requisiti fondamentali
- 3+ years of server-side programming
- Hands-on experience with Golang or Rust
- Proven ability to build and debug highly scalable, distributed, reliable systems
- Strong Linux systems troubleshooting and profiling skills
- Experience with distributed systems and Linux networking on L7/L4
- Comfortable working in a globally distributed team
- Strong ownership and communication skills (documentation written by engineers)
- Familiarity with AI/LLM concepts
- ownership
- clear written and verbal communication
- collaboration in a distributed team
- Golang
- Rust
- Linux systems programming and profiling