Jobs at Kong

Senior Software Engineer at Kong working on the API Gateway. Responsibilities include designing, building, and maintaining API management software, developing innovative features like proxying and load balancing, and troubleshooting performance issues within distributed systems.

Senior Software Engineer for Kong's AI Gateway team in Shanghai. This role focuses on engineering the core system for live AI traffic, responsible for the runtime and data plane that routes, translates, secures, and analyzes requests to ensure performance, security, and scalability.

Senior Software Engineer for Kong's AI Gateway team in Shanghai. This role focuses on engineering the core system for live AI traffic, responsible for the runtime and data plane that routes, translates, secures, and analyzes requests to ensure performance, security, and scalability.

Account Development Representative (fed) at Kong. This role involves developing and leading inbound and outbound campaigns, interacting with IT and business decision-makers, updating lead activity in Salesforce, and setting qualified introductory meetings for the sales team. The position requires exceeding monthly and quarterly opportunity quotas and building strong relationships with marketing and account executive teams.

Software Engineer on the Billing Platform Team at Kong. This role involves building and maintaining TypeScript microservices for the company's commercial infrastructure, covering the full billing lifecycle including subscription management, entitlement provisioning, and usage metering. The engineer will work with distributed systems and financial platforms, focusing on data accuracy and operational reliability.

Kong is seeking a Technical Certification Developer to create and manage assessment programs for their platform. This role involves leading exam architecture, developing and reviewing exam items, ensuring quality assurance and security, and collaborating on lab and content development.

Strategic Account Director at Kong, based in Delhi, India. This role focuses on driving revenue and expansion within key strategic accounts in India by acting as a strategic partner to C-suite executives, owning the full sales cycle, navigating complex organizations, and crafting account plans.

Enterprise Account Executive for Kong in the Northeast region. This role focuses on driving growth by landing new clients, retaining existing customers, and expanding accounts for early-stage enterprise products. Responsibilities include developing sales strategies, managing the full sales cycle, collaborating with internal teams, identifying customer pain points, and building relationships with C-level executives.

Software Engineer 2 at Kong working on managed gateways. This role involves developing distributed systems, multi-cloud networking, and API infrastructure for dedicated and serverless gateway products.

Staff Solutions Engineer at Kong, specializing in DevOps, AIOps, and FinOps. This role involves guiding enterprise clients through complex architectural challenges, demonstrating the value of Kong's platform, and developing tailored solutions. Key responsibilities include leading technical discussions, building proof-of-concepts, and providing expert guidance on SRE Observability and API infrastructure.

Kong is hiring a Forward Deployed Engineer to join their Professional Services organization. This customer-facing role focuses on hands-on implementation, automation, and solution engineering to help enterprise customers adopt Kong's API and AI Connectivity platform.

Staff Customer Success Manager at Kong focused on driving adoption, expansion, and risk mitigation for customers. This strategic role requires blending technical knowledge with an executive mindset to deliver business value, develop success plans, and navigate complex organizations.

Senior Software Engineer at Kong working on special, high-impact projects within the Office of the CTO. The role involves designing and building highly scalable distributed backend systems, developing core services in Golang, and working with PostgreSQL and Redis to build data-intensive systems for AI infrastructure.

Senior Technical Support Engineer at Kong, a hybrid role requiring 3 days in the office and 2 days remote. This position involves assisting customers with complex technical issues related to Kong's API Gateway and AI Gateway solutions, providing feedback to product teams, and creating knowledge articles.

Account Development Representative at Kong, a hybrid role based in Singapore. This position focuses on identifying and qualifying new sales opportunities for the company's sales organization, with a primary market focus on Indonesia. The role involves building customer enthusiasm and is considered a stepping stone for a career in sales.

Senior Staff Software Engineer - Agent Marketplace at Kong. This role involves architecting and building the coordination fabric for machine-to-machine commerce, including discovery, identity, billing, and settlement. The engineer will design full-stack surfaces, agent-native user experiences, and scale transaction infrastructure.

Kong is hiring a remote Enterprise Account Executive with 7+ years of experience selling enterprise software, ideally with open source background. This role involves selling the Kong Enterprise Platform to enterprise customers, developing pipeline generation strategies, meeting quotas, and managing assigned territories. The executive will be the primary point of contact for prospects and will collaborate with internal teams, requiring up to 50% travel.

Software Engineer AI Gateway at Kong. This role involves building and maintaining API management software for AI and LLMs, focusing on core features like multi-LLM routing, semantic caching, and MCP. Responsibilities include implementing new features, troubleshooting bugs, performance tuning, and optimizing low-level systems.

Staff Software Engineer on the Konnect team at Kong, focusing on architecting Kong Identity's multi-tenant identity platform. Responsibilities include designing and implementing advanced token management systems, extensible claims engines, global identity infrastructure, and enterprise identity federation capabilities.

Staff Product Manager for AI Management at Kong, based in Milan. This role involves owning product direction for AI Management modules focused on connecting, governing, supervising, and optimizing agentic AI, and driving cross-product infrastructure work. The position requires close collaboration with R&D, product managers, engineers, and field teams.

Enterprise Account Executive at Kong, a remote role focused on selling the Kong Enterprise Platform to global enterprise accounts. Responsibilities include meeting quotas, managing a book of business, and providing account leadership throughout the sales process, with travel required.

Kong is hiring a Senior AI Enablement Specialist to join their IT team. This role is hands-on, focusing on building AI tools and workflows directly within business functions to solve problems and improve efficiency. The specialist will also coach team members to develop their AI skills and track adoption progress across the company.

Product Marketing Manager for AI Governance at Kong, responsible for the commercial engine of the AI portfolio. This role involves owning launch execution, driving campaign strategy and content, and serving as the commercial interface between AI R&D and demand generation, field marketing, and sales teams.

Senior Staff Solutions Engineer at Kong (Australia) Pty Ltd. This role involves architecting, designing, and implementing API management solutions, leading technical aspects of client projects, and providing expert guidance to junior engineers.

Territory Account Manager at Kong, based in Thailand. This sales role involves selling the Kong Enterprise Platform to enterprise customers, developing pipeline generation strategies, meeting quotas, and managing assigned territories. The role requires travel to customer sites.

Enterprise Account Executive for Kong in the Southeast region. This role focuses on driving growth by landing new clients, retaining existing customers, and expanding accounts for early-stage enterprise products. Responsibilities include developing sales strategies, owning the sales cycle, collaborating with internal teams, and building relationships with C-level executives.

This is a Solutions Engineering Specialist role at Kong, focusing on AI connectivity. The specialist will act as a technical leader, guiding customers and partners through complex architectural challenges by demonstrating Kong's platform value through tailored solutions and technical excellence.

Senior Software Engineer at Kong focused on developing high-performance Go runtime, CLI engines, and declarative state managers. The role involves architecting software for API management, including state and drift management engines, Go SDKs, and API design.

Enterprise Account Executive for Kong in France. This sales role involves selling the Kong Enterprise Platform to enterprise customers, managing a book of business, and meeting individual quotas. The position requires travel to customer sites and offers uncapped commission potential.

Site Reliability Engineer 2 at Kong is a remote position focused on building, operating, and scaling Kong's multi-region SaaS platform. The role involves designing and automating production systems, including multi-region Kubernetes clusters and service mesh architectures, across AWS, GCP, and Azure.

Account Executive, Commercial at Kong. This role involves selling the Kong Konnect Platform to mid-market enterprise accounts. The individual will be responsible for meeting sales quotas, managing a book of business, and collaborating with internal teams and partners to drive new customer acquisition.

Kong is hiring a P-staff Solutions Engineer to support Enterprise & Strategic accounts in the UAE region. This role involves leading the technical sales cycle, supporting field sales, growing client relationships, managing PoCs, onboarding customers, and creating technical documentation.

Senior Software Engineering Manager for Managed Gateways SREs at Kong. This role involves building and leading a Site Reliability Engineering team from scratch in Seattle, focusing on the reliability, scalability, and operational excellence of Kong's managed services. The manager will be hands-on in critical implementations and reliability work, ensuring 99.99%+ uptime for enterprise customers.

Account Development Representative (ADR) for Kong, the AI Connectivity Company. This role focuses on identifying and qualifying new business opportunities within the EMEA commercial segment through outbound campaigns. The position offers extensive training, mentorship, and a fast-track career path in tech sales.

Kong is hiring a Staff Solutions Engineer to support Enterprise & Strategic accounts in the French region. This role involves leading the technical sales cycle, supporting field sales, conducting product demos, managing PoCs, and creating technical documentation.

Account Development Representative at Kong, a hybrid role based in Bangalore. This position focuses on identifying and qualifying new sales opportunities, working closely with Sales and Marketing teams. The role involves understanding the product, community, and customer base to generate pipeline and achieve discovery and qualification.

Kong is hiring an Enterprise Account Executive in Spain to sell their Enterprise Platform to global enterprise accounts. The role involves meeting sales quotas, managing a book of business, and providing account leadership. The position requires travel to customer sites.

Account Development Representative at Kong, based in Sydney. This hybrid role focuses on identifying and qualifying new sales opportunities by building customer enthusiasm for Kong's products. The position involves extensive training, mentorship, and is viewed as a pathway to becoming an Account Executive.

Staff Software Engineer on the Konnect Core Platform team at Kong. This role involves architecting Kong Identity's multi-tenant identity platform, focusing on complex organizational hierarchies, cross-tenant isolation, and enterprise-grade security. Responsibilities include designing token management systems, an extensible claims engine, global identity infrastructure, rate limiting, and enterprise identity federation.

Enterprise Account Executive at Kong selling the Kong Enterprise Platform to UK enterprise accounts. Responsibilities include meeting quotas, managing a book of business, and leading pre- and post-sales efforts. Requires 5+ years of enterprise software sales experience, ideally with open source, APIs, or infrastructure software.

Software Engineer 2 at Kong working on managed gateways. This role involves working on distributed systems, multi-cloud networking, and API infrastructure for a key Kong growth product.

Enterprise Account Executive for Italy at Kong, selling the Kong Enterprise Platform to global enterprise accounts. This role involves meeting individual quotas, owning a book of business, and providing leadership in pre- and post-sales processes, with travel required.

Senior Technical Customer Success Manager at Kong responsible for strategic account planning, driving customer retention and adoption, and acting as a trusted advisor. This role involves monitoring customer health, collaborating with internal teams, and managing customer relationships to ensure they maximize value from Kong's solutions.

Enterprise Account Executive for Benelux at Kong. This role focuses on driving growth by landing new clients, retaining existing customers, and expanding accounts for early-stage enterprise products. Responsibilities include developing sales strategies, managing the full sales cycle, collaborating with internal teams, identifying customer pain points, and building relationships with C-level executives.

Senior Site Reliability Engineer for Kong's Managed Gateways product. This role involves architecting and maintaining scalable cloud-native infrastructure across AWS, GCP, and Azure, and acting as a technical authority for enterprise customer implementations.

Enterprise Account Executive for Kong in the Southeast region. This role focuses on driving growth by landing new clients, retaining existing customers, and expanding accounts for early-stage enterprise products. Responsibilities include developing sales strategies, owning the sales cycle, collaborating with internal teams, identifying customer pain points, and building relationships with C-level executives.

Kong is hiring an Enterprise Account Executive to sell their Enterprise Platform to enterprise customers. This role involves developing pipeline generation strategies, meeting quotas, account planning, forecasting, and collaborating with internal teams. The position requires significant travel to customer sites.

Forward Deployed Engineer at Kong, a US Citizen role supporting Government/Public Sector Customers. This customer-facing engineering position focuses on accelerating customer adoption of Kong's API and AI Connectivity platform through hands-on implementation, automation, and solution engineering.

Kong is seeking a Senior Corporate Counsel, Commercial to join their legal team. This role will support strategic sales growth in the Americas East region, acting as a trusted partner to the revenue team. Responsibilities include drafting and negotiating customer contracts, advising on legal and business risks related to privacy, security, open-source software, and intellectual property, and supporting US federal government customers.

Staff Solutions Engineer at Kong, supporting Enterprise & Strategic accounts within the French region. This role involves leading the technical sales cycle, supporting field sales, growing client relationships, managing PoCs, onboarding customers, and creating technical documentation.

Kong is hiring an Account Development Representative (ADR) Team Lead for the NEMEA region (UK, Benelux, Nordics). This player-coach role involves carrying personal pipeline targets while actively developing newer ADRs, focusing on process and tooling improvements. The role reports to Oscar Winberg, Senior Manager for NEMEA.

This is a Senior Marketing Operations Analyst role at Kong, focused on the execution and operational backbone of the go-to-market engine. The analyst will manage the day-to-day intake queue, build and send emails in Marketo, process list imports, create audience segments, and maintain lead flow integrity.

This is a senior sales role for a Territory Account Manager at Kong, focused on selling the Kong Enterprise Platform to enterprise customers. The role involves developing pipeline generation strategies, meeting quotas, managing assigned territories, and collaborating with internal teams to ensure customer success.