# Senior Software Engineering Manager, Managed Gateways SREs

**Company:** [Kong](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/kong)
**Location:** Remote
**Role:** Engineering Management
**Salary:** $153k – $218k/yr
**Experience:** 5+ years
**Skills:** Kubernetes, Go, AWS, Azure, GCP, Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, api gateways, service mesh, network proxies, Distributed Systems, container orchestration, slos, slis
**Posted:** 2026-07-23

> Leads and builds a Managed Gateways Site Reliability Engineering team, initially contributing hands-on to enterprise implementations and reliability initiatives. The role requires engineering management experience, cloud-native distributed-systems expertise, Kubernetes, Golang, and strong observability and incident-management capabilities.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Build Kong's Managed Gateways SRE team in Seattle, Washington, from the ground up by hiring, setting standards, and remaining hands-on with enterprise implementations as the team ramps.
- Contribute directly to critical implementations and reliability work during the team's early stages.
- Lead, mentor, and grow a high-performing team of Site Reliability Engineers supporting Managed Gateway offerings and enterprise customers across the Americas and Europe.
- Architect and implement robust, scalable, fault-tolerant cloud-native systems using Kubernetes, Golang, and major cloud providers.
- Own the operational lifecycle, including monitoring, alerting, incident response, blameless post-mortems, and continuous service improvement.
- Improve developer experience and operational efficiency through automation, self-service tooling, and streamlined API gateway deployment and management workflows.
- Define, track, and report on SLOs and SLIs.
- Advocate for architectural practices that maintain performance and resilience as Managed Gateways scales.
- Collaborate with Product, engineering, and support teams on roadmap decisions and operational readiness.

## Requirements
- Experience leading and managing Site Reliability Engineering or DevOps teams in a fast-paced, high-growth environment.
- Expertise designing, deploying, and operating highly available distributed systems on AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud.
- Extensive production experience with Kubernetes and container orchestration.
- Proficiency in Golang or similar modern programming languages for infrastructure automation and service development.
- Strong understanding of observability principles and tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, and OpenTelemetry.
- Experience managing critical incidents, performing root cause analysis, and implementing preventative measures.

## Nice-to-haves
- Familiarity with API gateway technologies, service mesh, or network proxies.
- Open-source contributions or participation in SRE/cloud-native communities.
- Cloud or Kubernetes certifications, such as AWS Certified DevOps Engineer, CKA, or CKAD.
- Experience at companies focused on developer tools, infrastructure software, or API management.

## Compensation and benefits
- Annual salary range: **$153,000–$218,000**.

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