Overview Join the AI Gateway engineering team to help build and evolve Kong's API management stack for AI and LLM workloads. You will shape core features like multi-LLM routing, semantic caching, and high-scale components, partnering with a distributed team to deliver reliable, low-latency capabilities. You'll work on proxying, load balancing, and platform integrations, driving performance and robustness.

This role offers the chance to influence how enterprises govern AI-driven API traffic at scale. A strong candidate brings hands-on systems expertise and a proactive, ownership-driven approach.

Retribuzione / Benefits Equity Premio Health, dental, and vision insurance Paid holidays and PTO Professional development opportunities Build and maintain API management software for AI/LLM stacks Develop features such as proxying, load balancing,



and database support for Kong AI Gateway Bridge Kong with third-party deployment platforms and tooling 3+ years of server-side programming ~ Hands-on experience with Golang or Rust ~ Proven ability to build and debug highly scalable, distributed, reliable systems ~ Strong Linux systems troubleshooting and profiling skills ~ Experience with distributed systems and Linux networking on L7/L4 ~ Strong ownership and communication skills (documentation written by engineers) ~ Familiarity with AI/LLM concepts ~ clear written and verbal communication ~ collaboration in a distributed team ~ Golang ~ Rust ~ Linux systems programming and profiling

📌 Software Engineer 2, AI Gateway (Napoli)
🏢 Kong
📍 Napoli