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Engineering Manager ( API ops & UI )

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India-Bangalore

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Interview Process

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

Are you ready to power the World's connections?

About The Role

Kong’s API Management suite includes several products such as the Kong Enterprise Gateway, the Kong AI Gateway and the Konnect SaaS platform. These help organisations across industries manage and operate their APIs in a secure fashion, with high throughput and reliability.

We are looking for an engineering leader who will manage the teams working on API Ops, LLM Ops, and the UI needs of our product portfolio.

The API Ops team owns the deck Open Source command line interface (CLI) to all Kong runtimes, as well as Terraform support for the Kong Gateway. These are the most widely used tools to operate Kong’s products in production.
The LLM Ops team is a new team that will help all the other engineering teams in Kong work with Large Language Models (LLMs) and build new features into our product portfolio.

The UI team builds the core features in Kong’s SaaS platform.

This opportunity requires you to work from our office in Bangalore, India in a hybrid manner with three days in the office and two days working from home. As a leader, we expect you to maximise your time with the team and deliver outcomes efficiently.
What You'll Do
  • Build and lead high-performing engineering teams that consistently deliver results.
  • Attract, mentor, and retain top engineering talent, fostering growth and development across Kong's engineering organisation.
  • Own the end-to-end technical success of your engineering teams, ensuring industry-leading security, quality, performance, and reliability.
  • Architect and operate software systems to maintain 99.99% SLA or higher reliability.
  • Play a pivotal role in shaping the technical direction for the API Ops and LLM Ops teams by driving innovation.
  • Collaborate closely with product leadership to define and refine strategy, roadmap, and objectives for managed gateways, ensuring alignment between engineering efforts and business goals.
  • Oversee multiple agile workstreams simultaneously to ensure the timely execution of projects and initiatives.
  • Interface directly with customers and field teams to understand use cases, pain points, and opportunities for innovation; incorporate this feedback into product improvements.
  • Own key objectives that directly impact business outcomes, contributing to enhanced revenue growth for Kong.
    • What You'll Bring
  • Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science or a related field.
  • 4+ years of experience in engineering management, building and leading high-performing teams.
  • 5+ years of experience in SaaS development, specifically operating software with 99.99% reliability or higher.
  • Strong expertise in networking concepts, particularly OSI Layer 4 (Transport) and Layer 7 (Application) protocols, and public cloud network architectures.
  • Proven track record of successfully bringing new SaaS offerings to market.
  • Hands-on experience designing, prototyping, building, debugging and operating microservices architectures and distributed systems.
  • Expertise in monitoring and observability practices to ensure high availability, resilience, and performance of services.
  • Familiarity with public cloud platforms such as AWS, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), or Microsoft Azure.
  • Exceptional verbal and written communication skills to effectively collaborate across teams.
    • 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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