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Senior API Operations Engineer

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India-Bangalore

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Interview Process

1. Phone interview. 2. Pairing and technical interviews. 3. Take home assigment.

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About the role:

Kong’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.

A 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. )

Some of the other products that the API Operations toolset includes are:

Terraform-provider: Terraform provider for Kong Konnect - Kong’s SaaS product
SDK for Go: Go SDK for Kong Konnect
SDKs in other languages and tooling to generate SDKs from APIs
API specification and tooling for all products of Kong
Build a CLI-first experience for Kong Konnect

We are looking to expand our Bangalore-based API Operations team by hiring a Senior Engineer 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.
What you'll do:
  • Design, develop and build the API Operations toolset for Kong, starting with deck.
  • 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.
  • Play a pivotal role in shaping the technical direction for the evolution of API Operations.
  • Make CLI tools work for both humans and automation (inside GitHub Actions, Jenkins, etc.).
  • Ship API changes to multiple tools at the same time without manual toil
  • Make and consistently raise the bar for world-class APIs for a company that helps the world build and run APIs
  • 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.
  • Assist in the hiring process and help grow and mentor the team.

    • What you'll bring:
  • Design, develop and build the API Operations toolset for Kong, starting with deck.
  • 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.
  • Play a pivotal role in shaping the technical direction for the evolution of API Operations.
  • Make CLI tools work for humans as well as automation (inside Github Actions, Jenkins, etc.)
  • Ship API changes to multiple tools at the same time without manual toil
  • Make and consistently raise the bar for world-class APIs for a company that helps the world build and run APIs
  • 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.
  • Assist in the hiring process and help grow and mentor the team.
    • About Kong: 

    Kong is THE cloud native API platform with the fastest, most adopted API gateway in the world (over 300m downloads!). As the innovation leader of cloud API technologies, Kong is on a mission to enable companies around the world to become "API-first" and securely accelerate AI adoption.  Kong helps organizations globally - from startups to Fortune 500 enterprises - unleash developer productivity, build securely and accelerate to market.

    83% of web traffic today is API calls!  APIs are the connective tissue of the cloud and the underlying technology that allows software to talk and interact with one another.  Therefore, we believe that APIs act as the nervous system of the cloud.  Our audacious mission is to build the nervous system that will safely and reliably connect all of humankind!  

    For more information about Kong, please visit konghq.com or follow @thekonginc on Twitter.

    We are an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or veteran status.

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