If 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..
About the role:
You will be a leader of a Kong Gateway engineering team. These teams are
responsible for the Open Source and Enterprise Kong Gateway, the foundational
technology for our product offerings.
Your team will be responsible for building the core pieces of the gateway
which include the router, balancer, plugins development kit (PDK), management
API, observability metrics, distributed clustering infrastructure, as well as
support for the growing number of protocols and interoperability needs of our
customers.
Why should you want to work at Kong?
We are on a quest to build a $10b+ software company over the next few years
and need YOUR help!
Why APIs Matter? APIs have been enabling innovation for decades!
Strong VC team, Series D, strong year-over-year revenue growth!
Technical Leadership - We are recognized as the leader in innovation in the
connectivity space.
Marco, our CTO/co-founder - “We are the Cisco of L4 and L7” - CUBE
Conversation, March 2021
We are the leading innovator in the connectivity space!
Amazing Team & Culture - Come be a "Konger" and find out what we mean.
Great Place to Work Certified in 2020 & 2021 Best Workplaces in 2022
Customer Fireside Chat with Rabobank | API Summit 2023
Building Great Products - Learn why the world's largest companies love our
tech!
Kong Named a Leader in the 2023 Gartner Magic Quadrant
Over 250m+ downloads of our open-source API gateway! Over 60k+ stars on GitHub
between Kong API and Kong Insomnia!
What you'll be doing:
* Hire, mentor, and maintain healthy Engineering teams who value collaboration and innovation.
* Manage shift scheduling, measuring key performance indicators (KPIs), and training, assure high-quality work and SLA.
* Solid technical expertise for Linux systems troubleshooting, and profiling, experience with debugging tools such as gdb, systemtap, tcpdump, crash, or other.
* Leadership experience displaying the ability to organize and prioritize complex problem resolution and bug fixes, debugging distributed services.
* Organize and manage your teams to fit constructively into the org as a whole and help the company succeed.
* Set and manage expectations with other engineering teams, senior management, and external stakeholders.
* Give constructive feedback to Engineers, conduct 1:1’s, address interpersonal issues, and conduct reviews.
* Suggest Engineering guidelines, principles, and processes to improve the Engineering org.
* Assure high-quality work and SLA adherence from the entire Engineering org.
* Any additional tasks required by the manager.
What you'll bring:
* 4+ years of Eng management experience.
* Experience managing remote teams.
* Experience doing reviews, hiring, comp.
* Demonstrated leadership of Engineering teams.
* Proven customer relationship skill sets (internal and external customers).
* On-premise, cloud, and hybrid product background.
* Experience working on an infrastructure product line.
Kong has different base pay ranges for different work locations globally,
which allows us to pay employees competitively and consistently in different
geographic markets. The compensation varies depending on a wide array of
factors, including but not limited to specific candidate location, role, skill
set, and the level of experience. Certain roles are eligible for additional
rewards including sales incentives depending on the terms of the applicable
plan and role. Benefits may vary depending on location. US based employees are
typically offered access to healthcare benefits, a 401(k) plan, short and
long-term disability benefits, basic life and AD&D insurance, among others.
The typical base pay range for this role in Canadian. $184,113 - 204,540 CAD.
What is a Konger?
We are a group of makers, thinkers, and doers focused on helping today’s
developers build tomorrow’s technology. Our teams work on the bleeding edge of
API innovation to provide our users with a central nervous system for data and
services.
We put design at the heart of everything we do, and we’re relentlessly focused
on creating beautiful experiences for our customers. That’s why technology
companies, major banks, e-commerce innovators, and government agencies put
Kong in front of their most important web applications.
We believe in the power of Open Source and everything it stands for. That’s
why developers around the world enthusiastically contribute on top of our
open-source platform.
We are passionate about solving challenges that will fundamentally shape the
future of technology, and we’re looking for the right people to join us on our
mission. If you believe in taking ownership of your work, making an impact,
and having fun along the way, we would love to talk to you.
Kong Core Values:
Be Inclusive. We work together from anywhere to achieve our common goals. Our
differences make us stronger.
Be Authentic. We are genuine, principled and confident without arrogance. Show
respect and kindness, especially in tough moments.
Be Relentlessly Resourceful. We work with purpose, obsession and grit. It
takes muscle to do hard things and doing hard things build muscle.
Be Customer Obsessed. We care. Customers are everything, we put them at the
center of everything you do. We are all empowered to make an impact.
Be Curious. We value ideas over hierarchy. Never accept the status quo. We
make bold bets, fail, and learn everyday. There is always a way.
Be an Owner. We are drivers not passengers and own the quality and outcomes of
our work.
About Kong:
Kong is THE cloud native API platform with the fastest, most adopted API
gateway in the world (over 300m downloads!). Loved by developers and trusted
with enterprises’ most critical traffic volumes, Kong helps startups and
Fortune 500 companies build with confidence – allowing them to bring solutions
to market faster with API and service connectivity that scales easily and
securely.
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.
Kong focuses on Enterprise Software, Cloud Computing, Information Services,
Developer APIs, and Development Platforms. Their company has offices in San
Francisco. They have a mid-size team that's between 51-200 employees. To date,
Kong has raised $69.101M of funding; their latest round was closed on March
2019.
You can view their website at <https://konghq.com/> or find them on
[Twitter](https://twitter.com/thekonginc) and
[LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/company/konghq).
