{"active":true,"apply_url":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/kong/2f6e0958-59f5-4a4a-80a9-85aeb52d70fd/application","company":{"claimed":false,"name":"Kong","slug":"kong","website":"https://konghq.com"},"countries":["IN"],"employment_type":"full-time","first_seen_at":"2026-11-02T14:15:10Z","getwork_url":"https://getwork.dev/jobs/ab-kong-2f6e0958-59f5-4a4a-80a9-85aeb52d70fd/","id":"ab-kong-2f6e0958-59f5-4a4a-80a9-85aeb52d70fd","injection_flag":false,"last_seen_at":"2026-11-03T03:30:09Z","location":"Bangalore, India; India","published_at":"2026-11-02T11:51:51Z","regions":["apac"],"remote":"hybrid","role_family":"software","salary":null,"seniority":"unspecified","stack":["go","terraform"],"stack_mentioned":["aws","gcp","azure"],"title":"Software Engineer 2","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:\n\nKong’s API Management suite includes the Kong Enterprise Gateway, the Konnect SaaS platform, and a variety of Managed Gateways in public clouds, such as AWS, Azure, and GCP. This suite of products helps customers in different industries (like finance, banking, e-commerce, airlines, etc.) manage their API platforms and operations at scale. Our customers expect secure, reliable, high-scale, low-latency offerings from Kong, whether running on-premise or in the public cloud.\n\nA critical need for all our customers is to manage API Operations via Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) tools. Kong provides an open-source CLI - deck - that is the centrepiece of API Operations. (Source code for deck is at GitHub - Kong/deck: decK: Configuration management and drift detection for Kong https://github.com/kong/deck. )\n\nSome of the other products that the API Operations toolset includes are:\n\nTerraform-provider https://github.com/Kong/terraform-provider-konnect: Terraform provider for Kong Konnect - Kong’s SaaS product\n\nSDK for Go https://github.com/Kong/sdk-konnect-go: Go SDK for Kong Konnect\n\nSDKs in other languages and tooling to generate SDKs from APIs\n\nAPI specification https://docs.konghq.com/api/ and tooling for all products of Kong\n\nBuild a CLI-first experience for Kong Konnect\n\nWe are looking to expand our Bangalore-based API Operations team by hiring a Software Engineer II to join the team and build out the API Operations toolset. We expect you to work in a hybrid fashion with three days a week in the office.\n\nWhat You'll Do:\n\n- Design, develop and build the API Operations toolset for Kong, starting with deck.\n\n- Keep up with all of Kong’s API runtimes (HTTP gateway, AI gateway, Event gateway, etc.) and enable new features in the API Operations toolset.\n\n- Play a pivotal role in shaping the technical direction for the evolution of API Operations.\n\n- Make CLI tools work for both humans and automation (inside GitHub Actions, Jenkins, etc.).\n\n- Ship API changes to multiple tools at the same time without manual toil\n\n- Make and consistently raise the bar for world-class APIs for a company that helps the world build and run APIs\n\n- Collaborate closely with product leadership to define and refine strategy, roadmap, and objectives for the API Operations toolset, ensuring alignment between engineering efforts and business goals.\n\n- Assist in the hiring process and help grow and mentor the team.\n\nWhat You'll ring:\n\n- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science or a related field.\n\n- 3+ years of experience in building high-performance software with Golang.\n\n- Hands-on experience with at least one of the major cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP).\n\n- Prior operations experience with Infrastructure-as-Code tools.\n\n- Experience building APIs, standardising APIs in large organisations, and creating API workflows.\n\n- Strong verbal and written communication skills to effectively collaborate across teams.\n\n- Desire to join a fast-paced pre-IPO startup and the ability to move with high velocity to get things done.\n\n#LI-PC1\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/2f6e0958-59f5-4a4a-80a9-85aeb52d70fd"}