{"active":true,"apply_url":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/kong/0eb1c603-23cd-4d32-93fb-02d42463c1f7/application","company":{"claimed":false,"name":"Kong","slug":"kong","website":"https://konghq.com"},"countries":["CN"],"employment_type":"full-time","first_seen_at":"2026-10-31T09:15:10Z","getwork_url":"https://getwork.dev/jobs/ab-kong-0eb1c603-23cd-4d32-93fb-02d42463c1f7/","id":"ab-kong-0eb1c603-23cd-4d32-93fb-02d42463c1f7","injection_flag":false,"last_seen_at":"2026-11-03T10:00:10Z","location":"Shanghai, China; China","published_at":"2026-10-23T06:36:54Z","regions":["apac"],"remote":"onsite","role_family":"backend","salary":null,"seniority":"senior","stack":["rust","llm","linux"],"stack_mentioned":[],"title":"Senior Software Engineer, API Gateway - Shanghai","untrusted_description":"Are you ready to unlock intelligence?\n\nIf 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.\n\nAbout the Role:\nKong 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.\n\nAs 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.\n\nWhat You'll Do:\n\n- Responsible for designing, building and maintaining API management software and its underlying stack.\n\n- Architecture, design, and implement new innovative features including proxying capabilities, load balancing, databases support that extend Kong’s offering.\n\n- Bugs troubleshooting, performance tuning and low-level optimizations. Engage with open source community and extend Kong core to support the latest industry trends.\n\n- Fill the gaps between Kong and third-party deployment platforms and tooling.\n\n- And any additional tasks required by manager.\n\nWhat You'll Bring:\n\n- 5+ years of programming in server-side applications and components.\n\n- Experience designing, prototyping, building and debugging applications that are highly scalable, distributed, reliable and resilient.\n\n- Solid hands-on low-level technical expertise in Linux systems troubleshooting, and profiling.\n\n- 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.\n\n- Comfortable working with a remotely distributed team.\n\n- Strong sense of ownership and excellent verbal and written communication skills -- engineers at Kong write the documentation for their products\n\n- Familiarity with AI LLM concepts and applications development\n\nBonus Points:\n\n- Hands on experience with NGINX/OpenResty/Kong/LuaJIT.\n\n- Hands on experience with Envoy or Istio.\n\n- Hands on experience with Rust\n\n#LI-WL1\n\nAbout Kong:\n\nKong Inc., the AI Connectivity Company, is building the connectivity layer of AI. Trusted by the Fortune 500® and AI-native startups alike, Kong’s unified API and AI platform enables organizations to secure, manage, accelerate, govern, and monetize the flow of intelligence across APIs and AI traffic — on any model, any cloud. For more information, visit www.konghq.com http://www.konghq.com.","url":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/kong/0eb1c603-23cd-4d32-93fb-02d42463c1f7"}