{"active":true,"apply_url":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/kong/185f8e98-b9b5-4196-bf2c-d7c5cc84ec09/application","company":{"claimed":false,"name":"Kong","slug":"kong","website":"https://konghq.com"},"countries":["IT"],"employment_type":"full-time","first_seen_at":"2026-10-31T09:15:10Z","getwork_url":"https://getwork.dev/jobs/ab-kong-185f8e98-b9b5-4196-bf2c-d7c5cc84ec09/","id":"ab-kong-185f8e98-b9b5-4196-bf2c-d7c5cc84ec09","injection_flag":false,"last_seen_at":"2026-11-03T10:00:10Z","location":"Milan, Italy; Italy","published_at":"2026-10-23T14:52:19Z","regions":["europe"],"remote":"hybrid","role_family":"software","salary":{"currency":"EUR","max":95340,"min":77180,"period":"year","source":"structured"},"seniority":"senior","stack":["go","kubernetes"],"stack_mentioned":["postgres"],"title":"Senior Software Engineer, Control Plane","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\nTHE MISSION:\n\nThe Control Plane team architects the central nervous system of Kong's entire ecosystem. We build the high-performance, resilient, and scalable services that enable our users to configure and manage billions of API calls with confidence. This role is at the heart of delivering a world-class developer experience, ensuring our platform is not just powerful, but also intuitive and reliable at enterprise scale.\n\nWHAT YOU’LL DO:\n\n- Design and implement core features for the Kong Gateway Control Plane, primarily using Golang.\n\n- Own the full lifecycle of services, from architectural design and implementation to deployment and operational excellence.\n\n- Lead technical discussions and architectural decisions to prevent technical debt and ensure our commitment to 99.99% uptime.\n\n- Influence the technical roadmap for our cloud-native components, advocating for best practices in a distributed systems environment.\n\n- Mentor other engineers through thoughtful code reviews and design sessions, fostering a culture of high-quality code and developer delight.\n\n- Collaborate with product managers and other engineering teams to architect and deliver impactful solutions for our global user base.\n\n- Resolve complex bugs and performance bottlenecks in our core networking and configuration management components.\n\nWHAT YOU’LL BRING:\n\nTHE TOOLKIT\n\n- Significant professional experience writing and deploying production services in Golang.\n\n- Deep understanding of distributed systems, microservices architecture, and API design principles.\n\n- Hands-on experience with Kubernetes (K8s) and the cloud-native ecosystem.\n\n- Proficiency with relational databases, such as PostgreSQL.\n\n- Familiarity with modern CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure-as-code practices.\n\nTHE KONG DNA\n\n- Ownership: A proactive, self-starting mindset with a bias for action and a sense of responsibility for the end-to-end user experience.\n\n- Urgency: The ability to thrive in a fast-paced, pre-IPO environment, delivering high-impact work on ambitious timelines without sacrificing quality.\n\n- Collaboration: Excellent communication skills and a team-first attitude, adept at working across functions to achieve common goals.\n\nBONUS POINTS:\n\n- Experience with API gateways, service mesh (like Kuma), or related networking technologies.\n\n- Active contributions to open-source projects.\n\n- Knowledge of Lua or NGINX internals.\n\n- Experience building and managing large-scale SaaS platforms.\n\n#LI-EA1\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/185f8e98-b9b5-4196-bf2c-d7c5cc84ec09"}