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Senior Software Engineer, API Gateway

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Senior Software Engineer, API Gateway in Others new

  • Shanghai, China

Responsibilities

  • Design, build, and maintain API management software and its underlying stack.
  • Architect and implement proxying, load balancing, database support, and other Kong core features.
  • Troubleshoot bugs, tune performance, and perform low-level optimizations.
  • Extend Kong core to support industry trends and integrate it with third-party deployment platforms and tooling.
  • Engage with the open-source community and contribute product documentation.

Requirements

  • 5+ years of programming experience in server-side applications and components.
  • Experience designing, prototyping, building, and debugging highly scalable, distributed, reliable, and resilient applications.
  • Hands-on expertise troubleshooting and profiling Linux systems.
  • Experience with distributed systems, the Linux networking stack, computer systems programming, and L4/L7 transports and protocols.
  • Ability to work effectively with a remotely distributed team and communicate clearly in writing and verbally.
  • Familiarity with AI, LLM concepts, and application development.
  • Preferred experience with NGINX, OpenResty, Kong, LuaJIT, Envoy, Istio, or Rust.

Kong

Kong builds an open-source and commercial platform for API and AI connectivity, including Kong Gateway, Kong Konnect, and service mesh tools (Kuma/Kong Mesh) to secure, manage, and observe APIs and LLM traffic across clouds. It sells subscriptions and cloud services for API lifecycle management, ...

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