# Senior Staff Software Engineer

**Company:** [Kong](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/kong)
**Location:** Remote
**Role:** Fullstack Engineering
**Salary:** $220k – $270k/yr
**Experience:** 7+ years
**Skills:** Go, Kubernetes, REST APIs, Distributed Systems, Multi-Tenant Architecture, Mcp, Cli, Sdk, Api Infrastructure, Cloud Native
**Posted:** 2026-07-07

> Founding engineer building the coordination fabric for an agent-to-agent and agent-to-API marketplace, owning full-stack marketplace surfaces, transaction infrastructure (identity, metering, settlement), and agent-native UX with MCP servers, sandboxes, and SDK generation. Requires 7+ years building complex distributed systems, mastery of backend languages like Go, Kubernetes, and experience with autonomous agents/tool-calling.

## Job Description

## What You’ll Do
- Architect and own the end-to-end full-stack surfaces of the marketplace loop, delivering high-performance tools, the underlying REST API substrate, and developer-facing onboarding systems.
- Design the foundational agent-native user experience, creating robust Model Context Protocol (MCP) server capabilities, sandboxed test environments, and elegant CLI/SDK generation workflows.
- Scale and protect the transaction infrastructure by building high-reliability pipelines for programmatic identity verification, usage attribution, granular metering, and complex multi-party settlement.
- Drive cross-functional execution across Kong's engineering ecosystem, partnering with gateway runtime, security plugins, and global core teams to smoothly integrate marketplace features.
- Lead architectural design reviews and champion a zero-technical-debt culture while proactively preventing scaling bottlenecks across distributed backend components.
- Mentor engineers across the organization, multiplying the team's output by translating ambiguous product bets into highly defined, modular, and shippable technical milestones.
- Own the technical lifecycle completely by writing crystal-clear engineering documentation and product specifications for every system you architect.

## What You’ll Bring
- 7+ years of experience engineering enterprise-grade production software with a proven capability to design, build, and support complex distributed systems from scratch.
- Master-level expertise with a modern backend stack (such as Golang or similar systems languages) alongside deep architectural command of API infrastructure, Kubernetes, and cloud-native patterns.
- Extensive hands-on experience developing autonomous agent applications, tool-calling systems, prompt loops, or systems designed explicitly for machine consumption.
- Deep operational familiarity with multi-tenant architectures, usage-based metering pipelines, billing integration patterns, or secure data exchange layers.
- Strong written communication and technical articulation skills, with an unwavering comfort operating within remote, globally distributed engineering environments (West Coast/Bay Area alignment preferred).

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