Senior Software Engineer (API Ops)

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About The Role:

Kong’s API Management suite includes the Kong Enterprise Gateway, the Konnect SaaS platform and a variety of Managed Gateways in public clouds like AWS, Azure and GCP. This suite of products helps customers in different industries (like finance, banking, eCommerce, airlines, etc.) manage their API platforms and operations at scale. Our customers expect secure, reliable, high scale, low latency offerings from Kong whether running on-premise or in the public cloud.

A critical need for all our customers is to manage API Operations via Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) tools. Kong provides an Open Source CLI - deck - that is the centerpiece of API Operations. (Source code for deck is at GitHub - Kong/deck: decK: Configuration management and drift detection for Kong https://github.com/kong/deck. ) Some of the other products that the API Operations toolset are:

- Terraform-provider https://github.com/Kong/terraform-provider-konnect: Terraform provider for Kong Konnect - Kong’s SaaS product

- SDK for Go https://github.com/Kong/sdk-konnect-go: Go SDK for Kong Konnect

- SDKs in other languages and tooling to generate SDKs from APIs

- API specification https://docs.konghq.com/api/ and tooling for all products of Kong

- Build a CLI-first experience for Kong Konnect

We are looking to expand our Bangalore-based API Operations team by hiring a Senior Engineer to join the team and build out the API Operations toolset. We expect you to work in hybrid fashion with three days a week in the office.

What You'll Do:

- Design, develop and build the API Operations toolset for Kong, starting with deck.

- Keep up with all of Kong’s API runtimes (HTTP gateway, AI ga...