pbAre you ready to unlock intelligence? /b /p pÈ essenziale assicurarsi di soddisfare i requisiti per questo ruolo; la preghiamo di leggere attentamente quanto segue. /p pIf you don’t think you meet all of the criteria below but are still interested in the job, nobody checks every box – we’re looking for candidates that are particularly strong in a few areas, and have some interest and capabilities in others. /p h3About the Role: /h3 pYou 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. /p pAs 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. /p h3What You’ll Do: /h3 ul liResponsible for building and maintaining API management software for AI and LLMs and its underlying stack. /li liImplement new innovative features including proxying capabilities, load balancing, databases support that extend Kong AI Gateway’s offering. /li liBugs troubleshooting, performance tuning and low-level optimizations. /li liFill the gaps between Kong and third-party deployment platforms and tooling. /li liAny additional tasks required by manager. /li /ul h3What You’ll Bring: /h3 ul li3+ years of programming in server-side applications and components.



/li liHands on experience with either Golang or Rust /li liExperience building and debugging applications that are highly scalable, distributed, reliable and resilient. /li liSolid hands-on low-level technical expertise in Linux systems troubleshooting, and profiling /li liExperience 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. /li liComfortable working with a remotely distributed team. /li liStrong sense of ownership and excellent verbal and written communication skills – engineers at Kong write the documentation for their products /li liFamiliarity with AI LLM concepts and applications development /li /ul h3Bonus Points: /h3 ul liHands on experience with NGINX/OpenResty/Kong/LuaJIT. /li liHands on experience with Envoy or Istio. /li /ul h3About Kong: /h3 pKong 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 J-18808-Ljbffr /p #J-18808-Ljbffr

📌 Software Engineer 2, Ai Gateway (Italia)
🏢 Kong
📍 Italia