Software Engineer - Kubernetes

Are you ready to power the World's connections?

If you don’t think you meet all of the criteria below but are still interested in the job, please apply. Nobody checks every box - we’re looking for candidates that are particularly strong in a few areas, and have some interest and capabilities in others.

ABOUT THE ROLE

As a Software Engineer at Kong, you will play a key role in developing and maintaining our cutting-edge API gateway and cloud-native connectivity solutions. You’ll work on high-performance software that empowers organizations to manage APIs and microservices efficiently across cloud, on-prem, and hybrid environments.

At Kong, we are revolutionizing API connectivity with open-source and enterprise-grade solutions that power some of the world’s most demanding applications. The team’s core products, Kong Gateway Operator and Kong Ingress Controller, enable seamless, secure, and intelligent service connectivity for modern architectures, including Kubernetes, multi-cloud, and service mesh deployments. If you're passionate about distributed systems, cloud-native technologies, and growing your skills in high-performance APIs, we’d love to hear from you!

WHAT YOU’LL BE DOING

- Contributing to the development and maintenance of Kong’s Gateway Operator and Ingress Controller to ensure reliability and performance.

- Delivering assigned tasks that meet acceptance criteria, working on problems of moderate scope where analysis requires a review of a variety of factors.

- Writing readable, maintainable, and adequately tested code in Golang while ensuring code quality through automated testing and participating in peer reviews.

- Collaborating with cross-functional teams (engineering, product, DevOps) to build new features and build productive internal working relationships.

- Contributing to the design of components within a larger system, understanding the trade-offs of different approaches and articulating your reasoning.

- Debugging and solving p...