# Senior Software Engineer

**Company:** [Kong](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/kong)
**Location:** Bengaluru, India
**Role:** Backend Engineering
**Experience:** 5+ years
**Skills:** Go, Rest, gRPC, Openapi, Asyncapi, Terraform, Kubernetes, CI/CD, GitHub Actions, Gitlab Ci, Jenkins, Sdk Development, API Design, Automated Testing
**Posted:** 2026-07-16

> Develops high-performance Go backend systems, SDKs, CLI tools, declarative state managers, and Terraform integrations for Kong’s API management platform. Requires 5+ years of backend engineering experience, strong API design skills, and production experience with infrastructure-as-code or platform tooling.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities

- Develop high-performance **Go** runtimes, CLI engines, and declarative state managers.
- Design and optimize Go algorithms for state diffing, validation, and real-time drift detection across large-scale, multi-tenant API topologies.
- Architect and maintain high-performance Go SDKs and core libraries for internal microservices and external clients interacting with the Konnect SaaS platform.
- Define clean, extensible REST API contracts across platform runtimes.
- Architect spec-driven tooling using **OpenAPI** and **AsyncAPI** to generate SDKs, client libraries, and infrastructure-as-code definitions.
- Build modern CLI experiences for developer workflows and high-concurrency CI/CD automation.
- Build and extend reliable **Terraform Providers**.
- Bring new runtime capabilities into the declarative management ecosystem as native API primitives.
- Collaborate across global backend and platform teams and mentor junior engineers.

## Requirements

- 5+ years of software engineering experience designing and delivering production-grade backend systems and developer tools using **Golang**.
- Proven experience designing developer-friendly API schemas using **REST**, **gRPC**, and **OpenAPI**.
- Strong understanding of API backwards compatibility, versioning, and developer experience.
- Production experience with Terraform provider development, Kubernetes operators, or stateful CI/CD automation pipelines.
- Strong commitment to clean code, automated testing, benchmarking, and robust software architecture.
- Ability to communicate complex technical decisions and provide technical leadership.

## Compensation & Benefits

- Work on open-source-adjacent products that directly impact developers and enterprise customers globally.
- Solve technical problems involving declarative state synchronization, API governance, and distributed connectivity.
- Opportunity to grow with a high-growth pre-IPO startup.

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