# Senior Staff Software Engineer - Agent Marketplace

Hiring organization: [Kong Company](https://career.thegoodapps.co/organizations/kong-company)

Canonical page: https://career.thegoodapps.co/jobs/01b38c98-0788-403b-bfdb-1ec5e4de5aa9

Listed on Kong Company's own careers site. Applications go to them directly.

- Seniority: Senior
- Location: San Francisco, CA
- Remote: yes
- Salary: 250000 – 270000 USD per year

## Summary

This founding engineer role shapes Kong's marketplace for autonomous agents, designing systems where AI agents discover, authenticate, and settle transactions with APIs and each other. It suits experienced backend architects comfortable building distributed transaction infrastructure from first principles in a fast-moving, remote-first environment.

_Our summary, not Kong Company's wording._

## Skills named

Billing, Kubernetes, Model Context Protocol, REST API

## Required

- 7+ years building production enterprise software
- Design and build complex distributed systems from scratch
- Master-level expertise in modern backend languages like Golang
- Deep knowledge of API infrastructure and Kubernetes
- Hands-on experience with autonomous agent applications and tool-calling systems
- Multi-tenant architecture experience
- Remote work in globally distributed teams

## Nice to have

- Experience with usage-based metering pipelines
- Billing integration patterns
- Secure data exchange layer design
- West Coast/Bay Area timezone alignment

Apply on Kong Company's site: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/kong/ea7b507b-b249-4cf2-88ea-09fbbaf32acb/application