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About the Role
Cloud Gateways is Kong's foundational cloud-native SaaS platform powering its managed API and AI Gateway offerings. It provides a multi-tenant control plane, automation and platform services that enable customers to securely deploy, operate and scale dedicated gateway infrastructure with the simplicity of a fully managed cloud service.
Behind that experience is a distributed platform responsible for provisioning, fleet management, software lifecycle, zero-downtime upgrades, observability, security and multi-region operations across globally distributed cloud infrastructure. The platform powers mission-critical workloads with a target of 99.99% availability, balancing reliability, performance, operational excellence and infrastructure efficiency at global scale.




As enterprises increasingly adopt AI alongside traditional APIs, Cloud Gateways becomes an increasingly important part of Kong's API and AI strategy. Every improvement in automation, scalability and operational excellence accelerates the delivery of new platform capabilities and enables product teams to innovate faster.
As a Staff Software Engineer, you'll help define and build that platform.
The problems you'll solve span software engineering, distributed systems, cloud infrastructure and site reliability engineering, requiring a systems mindset and a passion for building platforms that are reliable, scalable and simple to operate.
This is a hands-on technical leadership role with end-to-end ownership of core platform capabilities. You'll shape technical strategy, influence platform architecture and solve complex engineering challenges while working across engineering organizations globally.
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📌 Staff Software Engineer, Managed Gateways (India)
🏢 Kong
📍 India