Software Engineer AI Gateway
h3About The Role /h3pYou will join the engineering team that builds the Kong AI gateway, empowering companies and developers around the world to govern every step of their AI LLM based innovation. /ph3What You’ll Do /h3ulliResponsible for building and maintaining API management software for AI and LLMs and its underlying stack. /liliImplement new innovative features including proxying capabilities, load balancing, databases support that extend Kong AI Gateway’s offering. /liliBugs troubleshooting, performance tuning and low-level optimizations. /liliFill the gaps between Kong and third-party deployment platforms and tooling. /liliAny additional tasks required by manager. /li /ulh3What You’ll Bring /h3ulli3+ years of programming in server-side applications and components. /liliHands on experience with either Golang or Rust /liliExperience building and debugging applications that are highly scalable, distributed, reliable and resilient. /liliSolid hands-on low-level technical expertise in Linux systems troubleshooting, and profiling. /liliExperience in distributed systems,
Linux networking stack and computer systems programming, Kong works with APIs on both L7 and L4 transports and protocols, so this expertise and knowledge are required. /liliComfortable working with a remotely distributed team. /liliStrong sense of ownership and excellent verbal and written communication skills -- engineers at Kong write the documentation for their products /liliFamiliarity with AI LLM concepts and applications development /li /ulh3Bonus Points /h3ulliHands on experience with NGINX/OpenResty/Kong/LuaJIT. /liliHands on experience with Envoy or Istio. /li /ulh3About Kong /h3pKong Inc., the AI Connectivity Company, is building the connectivity layer of AI. Trusted by the Fortune 500® and AI-native startups alike, Kong’s unified API and AI platform enables organizations to secure, manage, accelerate, govern, and monetize the flow of intelligence across APIs and AI traffic — on any model, any cloud. For more information, visit /p #J-18808-Ljbffr
Linux networking stack and computer systems programming, Kong works with APIs on both L7 and L4 transports and protocols, so this expertise and knowledge are required. /liliComfortable working with a remotely distributed team. /liliStrong sense of ownership and excellent verbal and written communication skills -- engineers at Kong write the documentation for their products /liliFamiliarity with AI LLM concepts and applications development /li /ulh3Bonus Points /h3ulliHands on experience with NGINX/OpenResty/Kong/LuaJIT. /liliHands on experience with Envoy or Istio. /li /ulh3About Kong /h3pKong Inc., the AI Connectivity Company, is building the connectivity layer of AI. Trusted by the Fortune 500® and AI-native startups alike, Kong’s unified API and AI platform enables organizations to secure, manage, accelerate, govern, and monetize the flow of intelligence across APIs and AI traffic — on any model, any cloud. For more information, visit /p #J-18808-Ljbffr