Are you ready to power the World's connections?
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About the role:
As a leader of the Kong Gateway engineering Worker 0 team, you will play a key role in shaping the future of API management by delivering superior performance and stability. Your team will be responsible for advancing core proxy functionalities, including improvements to DNS, load balancing, routing, plugin iterators, and more.
Key responsibilities include:
Re-architecting and refactoring the gateway runtime to support the future evolution of Kong.
Owning and executing the roadmap for performance tuning and optimizations.
Leading the development of profiling and debugging tools and frameworks, focusing on CPU, memory, and latency metrics.
Your leadership will drive innovation and ensure Kong continues to set the industry standard in API management with cutting-edge performance and reliability.
About Kong:
Kong is THE cloud native API platform with the fastest, most adopted API gateway in the world (over 300m downloads!). Loved by developers and trusted with enterprises’ most critical traffic volumes, Kong helps startups and Fortune 500 companies build with confidence – allowing them to bring solutions to market faster with API and service connectivity that scales easily and securely.
83% of web traffic today is API calls! APIs are the connective tissue of the cloud and the underlying technology that allows software to talk and interact with one another. Therefore, we believe that APIs act as the nervous system of the cloud. Our audacious mission is to build the nervous system that will safely and reliably connect all of humankind!
For more information about Kong, please visit konghq.com or follow @thekonginc on Twitter.
We are an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or veteran status.