Are you ready to unlock intelligence? Per candidarsi, è sufficiente leggere la seguente descrizione del lavoro e assicurarsi di allegare i documenti pertinenti. 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: You 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. As 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. What you'll be doing: * Responsible for building and maintaining API management software for AI and LLMs and its underlying stack. * Implement new innovative features including proxying capabilities, load balancing, databases support that extend Kong AI Gateway's offering. * Bugs troubleshooting,



performance tuning and low-level optimizations. * Fill the gaps between Kong and third-party deployment platforms and tooling. * Any additional tasks required by manager. What you'll bring: * 3+ years of programming in server-side applications and components. * Hands on experience with either Golang or Rust * Experience building and debugging applications that are highly scalable, distributed, reliable and resilient. * Solid hands-on low-level technical expertise in Linux systems troubleshooting, and profiling. * Experience 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. * Comfortable working with a remotely distributed team. * Strong sense of ownership and excellent verbal and written communication skills – engineers at Kong write the documentation for their product

📌 Software Engineer AI Gateway (Bardi)
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