Are you ready to unlock intelligence?
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 Do:
- 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 products - Familiarity with AI LLM concepts and applications development
Premio Points:
- Hands on experience with NGINX/OpenResty/Kong/LuaJIT. - Hands on experience with Envoy or Istio.
About Kong:
Kong Inc., the AI Connectivity Company, is building the connectivity layer of AI. Trusted by the Fortune 500® and AI-native startups alike, Kong’s unified API and AI platform enables organizations to secure, manage, accelerate, govern, and monetize the flow of intelligence across APIs and AI traffic — on any model, any cloud. For more information, visit www.konghq.com.
📌 Software Engineer 2, AI Gateway (Brescia)
🏢 Kong
📍 Brescia