San Francisco, CA · Remote
$220K - $270K/yr
Design the foundational agent-native user experience, creating robust Model Context Protocol (MCP ... Drive cross-functional execution across Kong's engineering ecosystem, partnering with gateway ...
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San Francisco, CA · Remote
$220K - $270K/yr
Design the foundational agent-native user experience, creating robust Model Context Protocol (MCP ... Drive cross-functional execution across Kong's engineering ecosystem, partnering with gateway ...
San Francisco, CA · Remote
$144K - $190K/yr
Design the foundational agent-native user experience, creating robust Model Context Protocol (MCP ... Drive cross-functional execution across Kong's engineering ecosystem, partnering with gateway ...
San Francisco, CA · Remote
$144K - $190K/yr
Design the foundational agent-native user experience, creating robust Model Context Protocol (MCP ... Drive cross-functional execution across Kong's engineering ecosystem, partnering with gateway ...
San Francisco, CA · On-site
$220K - $270K/yr
Design the foundational agent-native user experience, creating robust Model Context Protocol (MCP ... Drive cross-functional execution across Kong's engineering ecosystem, partnering with gateway ...
San Francisco, CA · On-site
$220K - $270K/yr
Design the foundational agent-native user experience, creating robust Model Context Protocol (MCP ... Drive cross-functional execution across Kong's engineering ecosystem, partnering with gateway ...
Olympia, WA · On-site
$113K - $162K/yr
Proven experience managing SaaS or PaaS systems at enterprise scale (multi-region, multi-tenant ... Deep expertise in Kubernetes , including debugging cluster/networking issues and designing for ...
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Olympia, WA · On-site
$113K - $162K/yr
Proven experience managing SaaS or PaaS systems at enterprise scale (multi-region, multi-tenant ... Deep expertise in Kubernetes , including debugging cluster/networking issues and designing for ...
$61 - $81.25/hr
Proven experience managing SaaS or PaaS systems at enterprise scale (multi-region, multi-tenant ... Deep expertise in Kubernetes , including debugging cluster/networking issues and designing for ...
$61 - $81.25/hr
Proven experience managing SaaS or PaaS systems at enterprise scale (multi-region, multi-tenant ... Deep expertise in Kubernetes , including debugging cluster/networking issues and designing for ...
San Francisco, CA · On-site
$120 - $160/hr
Data-heavy UI delivery -- experience building log views, chart systems, table interfaces, or graph ... Kong Inc., a leading developer of API and AI connectivity technologies, is building the ...
San Francisco, CA · On-site
$120 - $160/hr
Data-heavy UI delivery -- experience building log views, chart systems, table interfaces, or graph ... Kong Inc., a leading developer of API and AI connectivity technologies, is building the ...
... UI patterns - helping establish how Kong designs for AI-native and agent-driven experiences * Stay ... Hands-on experience with AI tooling, prototyping workflows, or building design-adjacent scripts and ...
... UI patterns - helping establish how Kong designs for AI-native and agent-driven experiences * Stay ... Hands-on experience with AI tooling, prototyping workflows, or building design-adjacent scripts and ...
Albany, NY · On-site
$140K - $205K/yr
... UI patterns -- helping establish how Kong designs for AI-native and agent-driven experiences * Stay ... Hands-on experience with AI tooling, prototyping workflows, or building design-adjacent scripts and ...
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Albany, NY · On-site
$140K - $205K/yr
... UI patterns -- helping establish how Kong designs for AI-native and agent-driven experiences * Stay ... Hands-on experience with AI tooling, prototyping workflows, or building design-adjacent scripts and ...
San Francisco, CA · On-site
$144K - $190K/yr
Data-heavy UI delivery - experience building log views, chart systems, table interfaces, or graph ... Kong Inc., a leading developer of API and AI connectivity technologies, is building the ...
San Francisco, CA · On-site
$144K - $190K/yr
Data-heavy UI delivery - experience building log views, chart systems, table interfaces, or graph ... Kong Inc., a leading developer of API and AI connectivity technologies, is building the ...
... UI patterns - helping establish how Kong designs for AI-native and agent-driven experiences * Stay ... Hands-on experience with AI tooling, prototyping workflows, or building design-adjacent scripts and ...
... UI patterns - helping establish how Kong designs for AI-native and agent-driven experiences * Stay ... Hands-on experience with AI tooling, prototyping workflows, or building design-adjacent scripts and ...
Toronto, ON · On-site
$140K - $205K/yr
... UI patterns -- helping establish how Kong designs for AI-native and agent-driven experiences * Stay ... Hands-on experience with AI tooling, prototyping workflows, or building design-adjacent scripts and ...
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Toronto, ON · On-site
$140K - $205K/yr
... UI patterns -- helping establish how Kong designs for AI-native and agent-driven experiences * Stay ... Hands-on experience with AI tooling, prototyping workflows, or building design-adjacent scripts and ...
New York, NY · On-site
$140K - $205K/yr
... UI patterns - helping establish how Kong designs for AI-native and agent-driven experiences * Stay ... Hands-on experience with AI tooling, prototyping workflows, or building design-adjacent scripts and ...
New York, NY · On-site
$140K - $205K/yr
... UI patterns - helping establish how Kong designs for AI-native and agent-driven experiences * Stay ... Hands-on experience with AI tooling, prototyping workflows, or building design-adjacent scripts and ...
Kong Inc., a leading developer of cloud API technologies, is on a mission to enable companies ... Experience designing and implementing search infrastructure using technologies like Elasticsearch ...
Kong Inc., a leading developer of cloud API technologies, is on a mission to enable companies ... Experience designing and implementing search infrastructure using technologies like Elasticsearch ...
... designs and ensuring seamless pre- and post-sales engagement. * Travel up to 30% to engage with ... experience. The Kong DNA: * Ownership: You take full ownership of your pipeline and customer ...
... designs and ensuring seamless pre- and post-sales engagement. * Travel up to 30% to engage with ... experience. The Kong DNA: * Ownership: You take full ownership of your pipeline and customer ...
Albany, NY · On-site
$120K - $173K/yr
... designs and ensuring seamless pre- and post-sales engagement. * Travel up to 30% to engage with ... experience. The Kong DNA: * Ownership: You take full ownership of your pipeline and customer ...
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Albany, NY · On-site
$120K - $173K/yr
... designs and ensuring seamless pre- and post-sales engagement. * Travel up to 30% to engage with ... experience. The Kong DNA: * Ownership: You take full ownership of your pipeline and customer ...
Kong Inc., a leading developer of cloud API technologies, is on a mission to enable companies ... Strong experience with API development and design (REST, gRPC) and building API-first services.
Kong Inc., a leading developer of cloud API technologies, is on a mission to enable companies ... Strong experience with API development and design (REST, gRPC) and building API-first services.
Toronto, ON · On-site
CA$105K - CA$195K/yr
Kong Inc., a leading developer of cloud API technologies, is on a mission to enable companies ... Strong experience with API development and design (REST, gRPC) and building API-first services.
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Toronto, ON · On-site
CA$105K - CA$195K/yr
Kong Inc., a leading developer of cloud API technologies, is on a mission to enable companies ... Strong experience with API development and design (REST, gRPC) and building API-first services.
Kong is building the future of AI connectivity and API management. We're hiring a Sr. Staff Product ... Solid working knowledge of accessibility standards (WCAG) and experience partnering with engineers ...
Kong is building the future of AI connectivity and API management. We're hiring a Sr. Staff Product ... Solid working knowledge of accessibility standards (WCAG) and experience partnering with engineers ...
Lead technical strategy for Kong Identity's developer experience, including SDKs, webhooks, audit ... token designs. * Lead technical initiatives for Kong Identity's integration with observability ...
Lead technical strategy for Kong Identity's developer experience, including SDKs, webhooks, audit ... token designs. * Lead technical initiatives for Kong Identity's integration with observability ...
Build Kong's Managed Gateways SRE team in Seattle, Washington from the ground up - hiring, setting ... What You'll Bring: The Toolkit * Proven experience leading and managing Site Reliability ...
Build Kong's Managed Gateways SRE team in Seattle, Washington from the ground up - hiring, setting ... What You'll Bring: The Toolkit * Proven experience leading and managing Site Reliability ...
$220K - $270K/yr
Full-time
Re-posted 8 days ago
Are you ready to unlock intelligence?
If you don’t think you meet all of the criteria below but are still interested in the job, please apply. Nobody checks every box - we’re looking for candidates that are particularly strong in a few areas, and have some interest and capabilities in others.
About the Role:
Architect the future of machine-to-machine commerce as a founding member of a zero-to-one engineering squad. You will design, build, and scale the coordination fabric for agent-to-API and agent-to-agent transactions—spanning discovery, identity, billing, and settlement—built directly on top of Kong’s world-class runtime stack. Operating as an autonomous startup unit inside Kong, this team is responsible for lowering organizational drag, unlocking engineering velocity, and establishing Kong’s absolute leadership in the Agentic Era.
What You’ll Do:
Architect and own the end-to-end full-stack surfaces of the marketplace loop, delivering high-performance tools, the underlying REST API substrate, and developer-facing onboarding systems.
Design the foundational agent-native user experience, creating robust Model Context Protocol (MCP) server capabilities, sandboxed test environments, and elegant CLI/SDK generation workflows.
Scale and protect the transaction infrastructure by building high-reliability pipelines for programmatic identity verification, usage attribution, granular metering, and complex multi-party settlement.
Drive cross-functional execution across Kong's engineering ecosystem, partnering with gateway runtime, security plugins, and global core teams to smoothly integrate marketplace features.
Lead architectural design reviews and champion a zero-technical-debt culture while proactively preventing scaling bottlenecks across distributed backend components.
Mentor engineers across the organization, multiplying the team's output by translating ambiguous product bets into highly defined, modular, and shippable technical milestones.
Own the technical lifecycle completely by writing crystal-clear engineering documentation and product specifications for every system you architect.
What You’ll Bring:
7+ years of experience engineering enterprise-grade production software with a proven capability to design, build, and support complex distributed systems from scratch.
Master-level expertise with a modern backend stack (such as Golang or similar systems languages) alongside deep architectural command of API infrastructure, Kubernetes, and cloud-native patterns.
Extensive hands-on experience developing autonomous agent applications, tool-calling systems, prompt loops, or systems designed explicitly for machine consumption.
Deep operational familiarity with multi-tenant architectures, usage-based metering pipelines, billing integration patterns, or secure data exchange layers.
Strong written communication and technical articulation skills, with an unwavering comfort operating within remote, globally distributed engineering environments (West Coast/Bay Area alignment preferred).
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About Kong:
Kong Inc., a leading developer of API and AI connectivity technologies, is building the infrastructure that powers the agentic era. Trusted by the Fortune 500 and startups alike, Kong's unified API and AI platform, Kong Konnect, enables organizations to secure, manage, accelerate, govern, and monetize the flow of intelligence across APIs and AI models. For more information, visit www.konghq.com.
Compensation Range: $220K - $270K