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 Database (m/f/d) (Milano)
🏢 Kong
📍 Milano