We are looking for a precision-oriented Technical Certification Developer to drive the creation and evolution of high-stakes assessment programs for Kong's platform. This role is central to validating deep professional expertise by merging complex technical architectures with rigorous psychometric standards, ensuring our credentials maintain maximum credibility and real-world relevance.
What you will do:
- Exam architecture & lifecycle management: Lead end-to-end development initiatives, from defining job task analysis (JTA) outputs to establishing weighted blueprint structures and item specifications.-
- Security & integrity: Enforce exam security best practices, including rigorous item bank management, version control, and response protocols for content exposure incidents.
- Lab & content development: Collaborate with instructional designers and lab engineers on the production of hands-on practice labs and official study guides that map directly to high-stakes assessment domains.
Program operations
- Support the appeals process by reviewing flagged items and providing documented technical rationale for scoring decisions
- Document content development processes, style guides, and item writing standards for the program
What we are looking for:
Required
- 3+ years of hands-on experience with API development, API gateway configuration, or API platform engineering
- Strong Kubernetes knowledge
- Demonstrated experience writing technical documentation, assessments, or instructional content at a professional level
- Strong understanding of the full API lifecycle: design, specification (OpenAPI/AsyncAPI), publishing, versioning, security (OAuth 2.0, API keys, mTLS), monitoring, and deprecation
- Ability to translate complex technical concepts into explicit, scenario-based assessment items that measure applied competency rather than recall
- Meticulous attention to detail, with the ability to identify ambiguous, flawed, or biased exam
📌 Technical Certification Developer (Bengaluru)
🏢 Kong
📍 Bengaluru
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