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About the role:Design, develop, and maintain microservices that power Kong Konnect, the Service Connectivity Platform. Working closely with Product Management and teams across Engineering, you will develop software that has a direct impact on our customers' business and Kong's success.
Why should you want to work at Kong?Market Opportunity - We are on a quest to build a $10b+ software company over the next few years and need YOUR help!Why APIs Matter? APIs have been enabling innovation for decades!Strong VC team, Series D, strong year over year revenue growth!
Technical Leadership - We are recognized as the leader in innovation in the connectivity space.Marco, our CTO/co-founder - We are the Cisco of L4 and L7 - CUBE Conversation, March 2021We are the leading innovator in the connectivity space!
Amazing Team amp; Culture - Come be a "Konger" and find out what we mean.Great Place to Work Certified in 2020 amp; 2021Kong employees exemplify our culture at our 2022 Sales Kickoff
Building Great Products - Learn why the world's largest companies love our tech!Kong Named a Leader in the 2022 Gartner Magic QuadrantOver 250m+ downloads of our open source API gateway! Over 60k+ stars on Github between Kong API and Kong Insomnia!What you'll do:
- Implement and maintain services that power Konnect. Examples include authentication, authorization, search, and more.
- Design and implement solutions to technical problems of moderate complexity.
- Support those services in production by participating in an on-call rotation.
- Write automated tests to ensure behavior of code and avoid regressions.
- And any additional tasks required by manager.
What you'll bring:
- 5+ years working in and across agile scrum teams to develop, deliver, and maintain complex software solutions.
- Experience designing, prototyping, building and debugging microservices architectures and distributed systems.
- Experience developing and supporting a large scale SaaS platform.
- Expertise in designing and writing APIs, and a firm grasp of API lifecycle management.
- Expertise with data modeling in relational and no-SQL databases.
- Understanding of and development with git and Github workflows.
- Expertise in test-driven development and automated testing.
- Working knowledge of containerization and Kubernetes.
- A product-oriented approach to problem-solving and prioritizing work.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
Kong has different base pay ranges for different work locations globally, which allows us to pay employees competitively and consistently in different geographic markets. Compensation varies depending on a wide array of factors, including but not limited to specific candidate location, role, skill set and level of experience. Certain roles are eligible for additional rewards including sales incentives depending on the terms of the applicable plan and role. Benefits may vary depending on location. US based employees are typically offered access to healthcare benefits, a 401(k) plan, short and long term disability benefits, basic life and ADamp;D insurance, among others. The typical base pay range for this role in the CAD is $152,000 - 198,000 CAD.
What is a Konger?
We are a group of makers, thinkers, and doers focused on helping today’s developers build tomorrow’s technology. Our teams work on the bleeding edge of API innovation to provide our users with a central nervous system for data and services.
We put design at the heart of everything we do, and we’re relentlessly focused on creating beautiful experiences for our customers. That’s why technology companies, major banks, e-commerce innovators, and government agencies put Kong in front of their most important web applications.
We believe in the power of Open Source and everything it stands for. That’s why developers around the world enthusiastically contribute on top of our open-source platform.
We are passionate about solving challenges that will fundamentally shape the future of technology, and we’re looking for the right people to join us on our mission. If you believe in taking ownership of your work, making an impact, and having fun along the way, we would love to talk to you.
Kong Core Values:
Be Inclusive. We work together from anywhere to achieve our common goals. Our di