Jobs at Kong

Design, build, and operate TypeScript microservices and integrations that run the billing lifecycle, including payment and CRM integrations, event-driven workflows, entitlement enforcement, provisioning pipelines, admin tooling, testing, on-call incident response, and mentoring engineers to ensure reliable, auditable financial workflows.

Lead reliability and implementation for Kong's Managed Gateways: design and operate multi-cloud, Kubernetes-based systems, own incident response and SLOs, automate CI/CD and IaC, mentor SREs, and drive enterprise customer onboarding and technical implementations.

Lead and build a Toronto-based Managed Gateways SRE team, stay hands-on early, architect and operate cloud-native, highly available gateway systems, own incident response, SLOs/SLIs, automation, and cross-functional readiness to ensure 99.99%+ uptime for enterprise customers.

Build and maintain scalable search, notification, and audit-logging backend services. Design and implement MCP tools, optimize performance and reliability, write well-tested Go code, collaborate on product requirements, mentor junior engineers, participate in on-call rotation, and contribute to platform architecture and roadmap.

The role involves operating and scaling Kong's SaaS platform, building automated infrastructure, optimizing multi-region data layers, enhancing observability, and ensuring reliability across services.

The Staff Design Technologist will oversee AI-enabled design workflows, bridging design and engineering, driving UI cohesion, and raising craft standards for technical product experiences.

Build and maintain backend microservices in Golang for authentication and authorization. Design scalable APIs, deploy services on AWS and Kubernetes, implement secure high-volume access control, write tests, participate in on-call rotation, collaborate on design and reviews, and monitor and optimize performance and reliability.