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Kong

Information Technology & Software

Overview

Kong is a cloud-native platform that powers API-led connectivity for developer productivity, automating security, and microservices.

Key Information

Central Office
San Francisco, CA, USA
Founded
2017

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Latest Jobs

Software Engineer - Event Gateway

Mid-level+
🇮🇹

Milan, Italy

Software Engineer building a high-performance Kafka protocol proxy for an event gateway platform. Rust with async, Tokio, and Linux networking, focusing on distributed systems, protocol optimization, and low-level performance.

Rust
Verified May 24, 2026 View listing

Senior Software Engineer, Gateway Enterprise

Senior+
🇨🇳

Shanghai, China

Senior Software Engineer building proxy stack for an API gateway. Nginx/OpenResty, Lua/C, and Linux networking, focusing on distributed systems, troubleshooting, and enterprise product development.

CLua
Verified May 24, 2026 View listing

Past Jobs

EXPIRED

Software Engineer, Gateway

Mid-level+
🇨🇳

Shanghai, China

Design and optimize high-performance, asynchronous Rust-based proxying and load-balancing features for a globally distributed, open-source API gateway.

Rust
First seen Dec 21, 2025 Last seen Mar 11, 2026
EXPIRED

Staff Software Engineer, Runtime Interpreter

🏠 🇩🇪 🇪🇸 🇫🇷 🇬🇧 🇮🇪 🇮🇹 🇳🇱 🇵🇱 🇸🇪

Remote, France, Remote, Germany, Remote, Ireland, Remote, Italy, Remote, Netherlands, Remote, Poland, Remote, Spain, Remote, Sweden, Remote, UK

Staff-level role building a Rust-based interpreter for a Scheme DSL powering Kong’s API Gateway. Requires 5+ years' experience, deep Rust and Scheme skills, Linux debugging expertise.

RustScheme
First seen Apr 12, 2025 Last seen Aug 19, 2025
EXPIRED

Software Engineer, Gateway

🇨🇳

Shanghai, China

Systems role working on core API gateway features in Rust. Focus on proxying, load balancing, Linux systems, and async networking. 3+ years' Rust and distributed systems experience required.

LuaRust
First seen Jul 10, 2025 Last seen Aug 19, 2025
EXPIRED

Senior Software Engineer, Gateway

🇨🇳

Shanghai, China

Rust
First seen Apr 12, 2025 Last seen May 3, 2025
EXPIRED

Senior Software Engineer, AI Gateway

🇨🇳

Shanghai, China

Lua
First seen Apr 12, 2025 Last seen Apr 22, 2025