Overview In this role you join the AI Gateway Engineering Team to build and evolve the Kong AI gateway. You will tackle multi-LLM routing, semantic routing, and performance-focused features that power AI-enabled workflows. You will contribute to a scalable API management stack, bridging Kong with third-party deployment platforms, and drive reliability at scale.

This role offers hands-on development, optimization, and cross-functional collaboration in a mission-driven, innovative environment. You will help shape how organizations govern AI and LLM-based innovation.

Responsabilità

- Build and maintain API management software for AI/LLMs and its underlying stack
- Implement features like proxying, load balancing, and databases support for Kong AI Gateway
- Troubleshoot bugs, tune performance, and perform low-level optimizations
- Bridge Kong with third-party deployment platforms and tooling




- Handle additional tasks as directed by management

Requisiti fondamentali

- 3+ years of server-side application and component development
- Hands-on experience with Golang or Rust
- Experience building and debugging highly scalable, distributed, reliable systems
- Strong Linux systems troubleshooting and profiling skills
- Knowledge of distributed systems and Linux networking; API exposure on L7/L4
- Comfortable working with a remotely distributed team
- Strong ownership and communication skills;

experience documenting products

- Familiarity with AI/LLM concepts and applications development

- strong communication
- ownership
- collaboration
- Golang or Rust
- Linux troubleshooting and profiling
- distributed systems

📌 Software Engineer AI Gateway (Milano)
🏢 Kong
📍 Milano