Senior Software Engineer, Control Plane

Design, develop, and maintain microservices that power Kong Konnect, the Service Connectivity Platform. Implement and maintain services that power Konnect, such as Kong's cloud-hosted control plane.

Requirements

• 5+ years working in a team to develop, deliver, and maintain complex software solutions
• Experience in Go
• Experience designing, prototyping, building and debugging microservices architectures and distributed systems
• Experience performing DevOps monitoring and observability
• Experience with working or developing L4/L7 proxies such as Nginx, HA-proxy, Envoy, or others
• Experience developing and supporting a large scale SaaS platform; with working knowledge of containerization and Kubernetes
• Expertise in designing and writing APIs, and a firm grasp of API lifecycle management
• Expertise with data modeling in relational databases
• Understanding of and development with git and Github workflows
• Expertise in test-driven development and automated testing
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills