Responsibilities
- Responsible for building and maintaining API management software for AI and LLMs and its underlying stack
- Implement new innovative features including proxying capabilities, load balancing, databases support that extend Kong AI Gateway’s offering
- Bugs troubleshooting, performance tuning and low-level optimizations
- Fill the gaps between Kong and third-party deployment platforms and tooling
- Any additional tasks required by manager
Requirements
- 3+ years of programming in server-side applications and components
- Hands on experience with either Golang or Rust
- Experience 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
Nice to Have
- Familiarity with AI LLM concepts and applications development
- Hands on experience with NGINX/OpenResty/Kong/LuaJIT
- Hands on experience with Envoy or Istio
Work Arrangement
Remote (Worldwide)
Additional Information
- Comfortable working with a remotely distributed team
- Engineers at Kong write the documentation for their products
- Strong sense of ownership and excellent verbal and written communication skills
