h3About The Role /h3pYou 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.
/ph3What You'll Do /h3ulliResponsible for building and maintaining API management software for AI and LLMs and its underlying stack.
/liliImplement new innovative features including proxying capabilities, load balancing, databases support that extend Kong AI Gateway's offering.
/liliBugs troubleshooting, performance tuning and low-level optimizations.
/liliFill the gaps between Kong and third-party deployment platforms and tooling.
/liliAny additional tasks required by manager.
/li /ulh3What You'll Bring /h3ulli3+ years of programming in server-side applications and components.
/liliHands on experience with either Golang or Rust /liliExperience building and debugging applications that are highly scalable, distributed, reliable and resilient.
/liliSolid hands-on low-level technical expertise in Linux systems troubleshooting, and profiling.
/liliExperience 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.
/liliComfortable working with a remotely distributed team.
/liliStrong sense of ownership and excellent verbal and written communication skills -- engineers at Kong write the documentation for their products /liliFamiliarity with AI LLM concepts and applications development /li /ulh3Bonus Points /h3ulliHands on experience with NGINX/OpenResty/Kong/LuaJIT.
/liliHands on experience with Envoy or Istio.
/li /ulh3About Kong /h3pKong 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.
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📌 Software Engineer Ai Gateway (Verona)
🏢 Kong
📍 Verona