Are you ready to unlock intelligence? About the Role: At Kong, our API and AI Gateway sits at the center of how Fortune 500 enterprises and AI-native startups secure and govern the flow of intelligence. Every request into a company's infrastructure goes through the Gateway first. Security isn't a side concern here, it's the top priority: you're guarding the front door. You'll be securing AI traffic while the playbook is still being written: prompt injection, agentic authorization, MCP. These are problems nobody has fully solved yet. We're looking for a Software Engineer with a security specialization to join our Runtimes team as a Security Champion: an engineer who writes real code and makes security a built-in part of how we ship. What You'll Do: * Run security-focused code audits, threat modeling, and secure design reviews across our AI Gateway and API Gateway capabilities * Own vulnerability management end-to-end: triage, reproduction, remediation, verification * Partner with AI Gateway engineering on emerging AI/LLM threat patterns (ie: prompt injection, data leakage, model abuse)
* Coach engineers on secure coding practices, turning security findings into lasting team habits * Contribute hands-on to Gateway feature work, with security built-in from day one What You’ll Bring: * 3+ years building production software, with 2+ years in a dedicated security role (AppSec, vulnerability research, or pentesting); * Solid coding skills in a object oriented language (Rust, Java, Python, Go, or similar); * Practical threat-modeling experience; * Working knowledge of cybersecurity (especially L7 security and authentication); * Basic knowledge of AI attack vectors. Nice-to-have: * Familiarity with L7 proxies/API gateway architecture (Nginx, OpenResty, Envoy, HAProxy or Kong); * Experience with Lua; * Open-source contributions; * Willingness to learn Rust is important for where our platform is heading: we'll help you get there. What we offer: * A permanent contract under the
📌 Senior Security Engineer (Genova)
🏢 IIT
📍 Genova