# Site Reliability Engineer 2

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

Canonical page: https://career.thegoodapps.co/jobs/e28afac5-8e72-4fbb-8006-31e29540f4eb

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

- Seniority: Mid
- Location: Washington, United States
- Remote: yes
- Salary: 123000 – 150000 USD per year

## Summary

A production engineering role managing Kong's distributed SaaS platform across multiple cloud providers, involving Kubernetes infrastructure, deployment automation, and operational excellence. This suits engineers who combine hands-on infrastructure skills with a drive to improve systems at scale in a 24/7 environment.

_Our summary, not Kong Company's wording._

## Skills named

Amazon Web Services (AWS), Apache Kafka, ArgoCD, Bash (Scripting), ClickHouse, Datadog, Go, Grafana, Helm, Kong Gateway, Kubernetes, Microsoft Azure, PostgreSQL, Prometheus, Python, Redis, Terraform, Terragrunt, Thanos

## Required

- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent practical experience
- Experience managing SaaS or PaaS systems at enterprise scale across multiple regions and tenants
- Deep Kubernetes expertise including cluster debugging and fault tolerance design
- Infrastructure as Code proficiency with Terraform or Terragrunt
- CI/CD and GitOps workflow experience
- Programming language proficiency in Go, Python, or Bash
- Linux/Unix systems and networking knowledge
- Experience with API gateway and service mesh technologies
- Observability platforms experience (Datadog, Prometheus, or Grafana)
- 24/7 production support experience

## Nice to have

- Hands-on experience with Kong Gateway, Kong Mesh, or similar service connectivity technologies
- Experience operating ClickHouse, Druid, or other time-series and analytics databases
- Multi-region PostgreSQL and Redis management
- AWS networking expertise (PrivateLink, Transit Gateway, VPC Peering)
- Azure VNet or GCP Network Connectivity Center knowledge
- Disaster recovery and resiliency testing experience
- Compliance-driven reliability practices

Apply on Kong Company's site: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/kong/7ae8b357-a8f0-4c3d-868d-add1789de7ff/application