Senior Software Engineering Manager, Managed Gateways SREs
Kong CompanyWashington, United States · Remote · Senior
$153,000 – $218,000
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What this role is
Lead a newly-formed team of Site Reliability Engineers managing Kong's cloud-hosted API gateway service, responsible for maintaining enterprise-grade uptime and performance while staying hands-on with critical implementations. The role suits experienced engineering managers who thrive in high-ownership environments and can balance strategic team-building with direct technical contribution.
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What they ask for
Required
- Lead and manage Site Reliability Engineering or DevOps teams
- Design and operate highly available distributed systems on cloud platforms
- Extensive hands-on Kubernetes and container orchestration in production
- Golang or similar modern language proficiency for infrastructure automation
- Observability principles and tools experience
- Manage critical incidents and perform root cause analysis
Nice to have
- API gateway, service mesh, or network proxy experience
- Open-source contributions or SRE community participation
- Cloud platform certifications (AWS DevOps Engineer, CKA, CKAD)
- Background in developer tools, infrastructure software, or API management