Requirements
- Experience
- 5+ years
Joblaze summary
In this role, the Senior Software Engineer focuses on designing and maintaining API management software, specifically enhancing features like proxying and load balancing. The position requires strong programming skills, particularly in Rust, along with expertise in distributed systems and Linux environments. Ideal candidates have over five years of experience in server-side applications and a proactive approach to engaging with the open-source community. Kong's collaborative culture emphasizes ownership and communication, making it suitable for engineers who thrive in a distributed team setting.
Joblaze insights
- Listed about a month ago on Joblaze — tracked directly from Kong's career page.
- Kong has 94 other open roles including Staff Site Reliability Engineer — Project Volcano, Staff Curriculum Developer, Account Development Representative (Australia).
- 385 active Linux roles on Joblaze right now.
- 249 active Rust roles on Joblaze right now.
- 18 active eBPF roles on Joblaze right now.
Quick facts
- Is the Senior Software Engineer - Gateway - Shanghai role remote?
- It's hybrid — Kong expects some on-site time in China-Shanghai.
- How much experience is required?
- At least 5 years of relevant experience for this Senior Software Engineer - Gateway - Shanghai role.
- Where is the role based?
- Kong is hiring for this position in China-Shanghai.
- What's the tech stack?
- Joblaze extracted these technologies from the posting: WASM, Tokio, eBPF, Nginx, Rust, OpenResty.
- What seniority level is this role?
- Kong targets senior candidates for this position.
- Is this full-time or contract?
- Full-time for this Senior Software Engineer - Gateway - Shanghai role at Kong.
From the original posting
Are you ready to unlock intelligence?
If you don’t think you meet all of the criteria below but are still interested in the job, please apply. 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.
About the role:
Kong is an open-source project with a global adoption around the world. Developers and architects are adopting Kong in production among a large variety of use-cases, and actively help make Kong a better product with their feedback and contributions.
As a Systems Engineer in the Core Team, you will be working on core features such as proxying capabilities, load balancing, and database support with forward-thinking. You will be responsible for building foundations for other teams and customers, discovering and producing cutting edge industry trends and use-cases.
What you'll be doing:
Responsible for designing, building and maintaining API management software and its underlying stack.
Architecture, design, and implement new innovative features including proxying capabilities, load balancing, databases support that extend Kong’s offering.
Bugs troubleshooting, performance tuning and low-level optimizations.
Engage with the open source community and extend Kong core to support the latest industry trends.
Fill the gaps between Kong and third-party deployment platforms and tooling.
And any additional tasks required by manager.
What you'll bring:
5+ years of programming in server-side applications and components.
Experience designing, prototyping, building and debugging applications that are highly scalable, distributed, reliable and resilient.
Solid hands-on low-level technical expertise in Linux systems troubleshooting, and profiling.
Experience 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.
Comfortable working with a remotely distributed team.
Strong sense of ownership and excellent verbal and written communication skills -- engineers at Kong write the documentation for their products.
3+ years of Rust programming experience with solid understanding of async Rust.
Bonus Points:
Hands-on experience with Tokio.
Contributions to Rust open source projects.
Hands-on experience with NGINX/OpenResty/Kong/LuaJIT.
Understanding of inner workings of VM implementations like LuaJIT, eBPF and/or WASM.
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About Kong:
Kong Inc., a leading developer of API and AI connectivity technologies, is building the infrastructure that powers the agentic era. Trusted by the Fortune 500 and startups alike, Kong's unified API and AI platform, Kong Konnect, enables organizations to secure, manage, accelerate, govern, and monetize the flow of intelligence across APIs and AI models. For more information, visit www.konghq.com.