# Software Engineer 2, Managed Gateways

**Company:** [Kong](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/kong)
**Location:** Bengaluru, India
**Role:** Backend Engineering
**Experience:** 5+ years
**Skills:** Go, Distributed Systems, Networking, DNS, Tls/Ssl, Http, AWS, GCP, Azure, Kubernetes, APIs, Microservices, Observability, Nginx, Envoy
**Posted:** 2026-03-02

> Build and operate highly available distributed systems, microservices, and control-plane components for Kong’s managed gateway products. The role requires 5+ years of software experience, strong Golang expertise, cloud and Kubernetes experience, and deep knowledge of networking and API infrastructure.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Design, develop, and operate highly available distributed systems for Managed Gateways, ensuring resilience to regional and zonal outages.
- Own and lead delivery of key features and modules from design through implementation and production rollout.
- Build microservices and control-plane components powering Dedicated Cloud Gateways and Serverless Gateways.
- Partner with Product and Engineering teams to deliver features at scale for building, securing, and managing APIs.
- Participate in on-call rotations, own production services, and drive reliability improvements.
- Write automated tests, observability hooks, and tooling to improve reliability and reduce toil.
- Assist with hiring and mentor engineers on the team.
- Contribute to the Managed Gateways technical roadmap across infrastructure, networking, and platform engineering.
- Balance innovation, reliability, and customer impact in a high-velocity environment.

## Requirements
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science or a related field.
- 5+ years of experience building high-performance software, ideally in infrastructure or platform engineering.
- Strong experience with Golang.
- Deep understanding of distributed systems, L4/L7 networking, DNS, TLS/SSL, HTTP, and cloud-native architectures.
- Hands-on experience with at least one major cloud provider and Kubernetes.
- Experience building APIs, standardizing APIs in large organizations, and creating API workflows.
- Experience designing and operating systems supporting 99.99%+ uptime SLAs.
- Ability to debug complex systems from packet- and protocol-level details through high-level design.
- Knowledge of observability and monitoring practices for high availability and performance.
- Strong communication, collaboration, and cross-functional influence skills.
- Strong ownership and experience driving features end-to-end and influencing technical direction.

## Nice-to-haves
- Experience with L4/L7 proxies such as Nginx, Envoy, or HAProxy.
- Background in API management, API workflows, or developer platforms.
- Experience with multi-cloud networking.
- Contributions to open-source infrastructure or networking projects.

## Compensation and Benefits
- The posting does not provide salary or benefits details.

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