$165,000 – $185,000
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 senior SRE role combines platform reliability engineering with hands-on enterprise customer implementation for Kong's cloud gateway product across AWS, GCP, and Azure. The position suits experienced SREs comfortable with Kubernetes and cloud infrastructure who can balance deep technical ownership of a distributed system with direct customer-facing technical leadership.
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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 Site Reliability Engineering experience with highly available and distributed systems
- Deep expertise in Kubernetes and cloud-native architectures
- Strong proficiency in Golang or similar modern programming languages
- Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure as code
- In-depth knowledge of monitoring, logging, and alerting systems
- Experience leading and mentoring a team of Site Reliability Engineers
- Ability to partner directly with enterprise customers on implementation and onboarding
- Cross-cloud proficiency across AWS, GCP, and Azure
Nice to have
- Experience with Service Mesh technologies like Istio or Linkerd
- Database administration experience for high-throughput systems like PostgreSQL or Cassandra
- Contributions to open-source SRE tools or projects
- Relevant cloud certifications such as AWS Certified DevOps Engineer or CKA
- Experience with managed services or API gateway platforms