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 (Pavia)
🏢 Kong
📍 Pavia