$113,000 – $162,000
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 role leads reliability engineering for Kong's managed API gateway platform, which runs across AWS, GCP, and Azure. You'll balance platform ownership—architecting resilient systems and mentoring a team—with direct customer implementation work, helping enterprise customers deploy production-ready gateways at scale.
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Skills this role names
- Amazon Web Services (AWS)
- Ansible
- CI/CD
- Datadog
- Grafana
- Infrastructure as Code
- Kubernetes
- Microsoft Azure
- Prometheus
- Terraform
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What they ask for
Required
- Extensive SRE experience with highly available and distributed systems
- Deep expertise with Kubernetes and cloud-native architectures
- Proficiency in Golang or similar modern programming languages
- Track record building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure as code
- In-depth knowledge of monitoring, logging, and alerting systems
- Experience managing production systems across AWS, GCP, and Azure
- Proven ability to architect and implement fault-tolerant cloud systems
- Direct customer-facing technical implementation experience
Nice to have
- Experience with Service Mesh technologies like Istio or Linkerd
- Database administration experience with PostgreSQL or Cassandra
- Open-source SRE tool contributions
- Cloud certifications such as AWS Certified DevOps Engineer or CKA
- Experience with managed services or API gateways