ppAre you ready to unlock intelligence? 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. /p h3About The Role /h3 pYou 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. /p pAs a Software Engineer in the AI Gateway Team, you will be working on core features such as multi‑LLM routing and balancing, semantic caching and routing, MCP, and more. /p h3What You’ll Be Doing /h3 ul liResponsible for building and maintaining API management software for AI and LLMs and its underlying stack. /li liImplement new innovative features including proxying capabilities, load balancing, database support that extend Kong AI Gateway’s offering. /li liBugs troubleshooting, performance tuning and low-level optimizations. /li liFill the gaps between Kong and third-party deployment platforms and tooling. /li liAny additional tasks required by manager. /li /ul h3What You’ll Bring /h3 ul li3+ years of programming in server‑side applications and components. /li liHands on experience with either Golang or Rust.



/li liExperience building and debugging applications that are highly scalable, distributed, reliable and resilient. /li liSolid hands‑on low‑level technical expertise in Linux systems troubleshooting, and profiling. /li liExperience 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. /li liComfortable working with a remotely distributed team. /li liStrong sense of ownership and excellent verbal and written communication skills – engineers at Kong write the documentation for their products. /li liFamiliarity with AI LLM concepts and applications development. /li /ul h3Bonus Points /h3 ul liHands on experience with NGINX/OpenResty/Kong/LuaJIT. /li liHands on experience with Envoy or Istio. /li /ul h3About Kong /h3 pKong Inc., a leading developer of API and AI connectivity technologies, is building the infrastructure that powers the agentic era. Trusted by the Fortune 500 and startups alike, Kong’s unified API and AI platform, Kong Konnect, enables organizations to secure, manage, accelerate, govern, and monetize the flow of intelligence across APIs and AI models. For more information, visit /p /p #J-18808-Ljbffr

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