Overview
Join Kong's AI Gateway team to shape a secure, high-performance gateway that connects enterprises with generative AI. You will own core backend components, optimize for uptime and low latency, and guide architecture and technical debt management. You’ll work across product, engineering, and cross-functional teams to translate customer needs into robust AI integration solutions at scale. This role offers a meaningful impact on developer experience and AI service reliability, with opportunities to mentor others and influence the road map. Your work will directly support faster, safer AI innovation for customers.
Retribuzione / Benefits Equity
Premio
Health, dental, and vision insurance
Paid holidays and PTO
Professional development opportunities and tools
Responsabilità Design and own core components of the AI Gateway ensuring near-constant uptime and low-latency AI traffic handling
Lead feature implementation for prompt engineering, caching, and observability with clean Golang and/or Python code
Influence roadmap and architecture, mitigating technical debt for long-term scalability




Architect integrations with multiple LLMs and AI platforms, shaping API management for AI
Mentor junior engineers through code reviews and design discussions to foster excellence
Drive full development lifecycle from ideation to deployment and operation in a Kubernetes environment
Collaborate with product managers and cross-functional teams to translate customer requirements into technical solutions
Requisiti fondamentali Extensive backend development experience in Golang and/or Python
Strong understanding of distributed systems, microservices, and API design principles
Experience deploying services in cloud-native environments (Kubernetes, Docker, AWS/GCP/Azure)
Familiarity with API gateways, service mesh, or related infrastructure technologies
Solid computer science fundamentals (data structures, algorithms, concurrency)
Ownership
Collaborative mindset
Effective communication
Golang
Python
Distributed systems

📌 Senior Software Engineer, AI Gateway (Milano)
🏢 Kong
📍 Milano