Software Engineer 2, Managed Gateways
Kong Inc. (company site, opens in a new tab)5+ yrsBengaluruOn-siteDirect career pageEst. 30–48 LPA
Posted on 21 Sept
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About This Role
- Design, develop, and operate highly available distributed systems and microservices for Managed Gateways ensuring 99.99% uptime and resilience to outages.
- Own and lead end-to-end delivery of major product features, collaborating with product managers, architects, and engineers to drive technical execution.
- Participate in on-call rotations for production services, implement observability and reliability improvements, and mentor engineering peers.
Minimum Requirements
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science or related field.
- 5+ years experience building high-performance software, preferably in infrastructure or platform engineering.
- Strong Golang programming skills and deep understanding of distributed systems, networking (L4/L7, DNS, TLS/SSL, HTTP), and cloud-native architectures.
- Hands-on experience with at least one major cloud platform (AWS, GCP, Azure) and container orchestration (Kubernetes).
Ideal Candidate Profile
- Proven ability to own features end-to-end and influence technical direction in a high-velocity, pre-IPO environment.
- Experience debugging complex systems from low-level protocols to high-level design and expertise in designing for 99.99%+ uptime SLAs.
- Background or interest in multi-cloud networking, API management/workflows, and contributions or working knowledge of L4/L7 proxies like Nginx, Envoy, or HAProxy.