$250,000 – $270,000
Listed on Kong Company’s own careers site. You apply with them directly — we never stand between you and the employer.
What this role is
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.
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What they ask for
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