Design, develop, and maintain microservices that power Kong Konnect, the Service Connectivity Platform.
Working closely with Product Management and teams across Engineering, you will develop software that has a direct impact on our customers' business and Kong's success.
Implement and maintain services that power Konnect, such as Kong's cloud-hosted control plane that manages customer configurations.
Design and implement solutions to technical problems of moderate complexity.
Support those services in production by participating in an on-call rotation.
Write automated tests to ensure behavior of code and avoid regressions.
And any additional tasks required by the manager.

3+ years working in a team to develop, deliver, and maintain complex software solutions.
Experience in Go.
Experience building and debugging microservices architectures and distributed systems.
Experience performing DevOps monitoring and observability.
Experience with working or developing L4/L7 proxies such as Nginx, HA-proxy, Envoy, or others.
Experience developing and supporting a large scale SaaS platform; with working knowledge of containerization and Kubernetes.
Expertise in designing and writing APIs, and a firm grasp of API lifecycle management.
Expertise with data modeling in relational databases.
Understanding of and development with git and Github workflows.
Expertise in test-driven development and automated testing.
Excellent verbal and written communication skills.

Software Engineer – Control Plane, Golang

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