Senior Software Engineer, Control Plane

The Control Plane team builds the central nervous system of Kong's ecosystem, enabling configuration and management of billions of API calls. This Senior Software Engineer role involves designing and implementing core features in Golang, owning full service lifecycle, leading technical discussions, influencing roadmap, mentoring, and collaborating with product teams. Requires deep distributed systems knowledge, Kubernetes, PostgreSQL, and CI/CD experience.

Significant Golang experience in production, deep distributed systems and microservices knowledge, Kubernetes hands-on, PostgreSQL proficiency, CI/CD and IaC familiarity. Also requires ownership, urgency, collaboration. Nice-to-haves: API gateways, service mesh, open-source contributions, Lua/NGINX, large-scale SaaS platforms.