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Interview Process
1. Phone interview.
2. Pairing and technical interviews.
3. Take home assigment.
Are you ready to power the World's connections?
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:
Design, develop, and maintain microservices that power Kong Konnect, the Service Connectivity Platform. Working closely with Product Management and teams across Engineering, you will develop software that has a direct impact on our customers' business and Kong's success.
This opportunity is hybrid with 3 days in office and 2 days work from home
What you'll do:
Implement and maintain services that power Konnect, such as Kong's cloud-hosted control plane.
Contribute to Kong's Cloud and Enterprise services.
Design and implement solutions to technical problems of moderate complexity.
Support those services in production by participating in an on-call rotation.
Write automated tests to ensure behavior of code and avoid regressions.
Mentor other team members.
And any additional tasks required by manager.
What you'll bring:
Bachelors or Masters degree in Computer Science.
5+ years working in a team to develop, deliver, and maintain complex software solutions.
Expert understanding of Go programming language and experience in working on large scale Go codebase
Experience designing, prototyping, building and debugging microservices architectures and distributed systems.
Experience baking in monitoring and observability into the code for availability, resilience and performance of the code
Experience with object storage like S3 as well as streaming systems like Kafka.
Expertise in designing and writing APIs, and a firm grasp of API lifecycle management.
Experience developing and supporting a large scale SaaS platform; with working knowledge of containerization and Kubernetes.
Experience with public cloud providers like AWS, GCP or Azure.
Expertise with data modeling in relational databases.
Understanding of and development with git and Github workflows.
Expertise in test-driven development and automated testing.
Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
Bonus Points:
Deep experience with Go; effective go standards.
Experience with NGINX/OpenResty/Kong/LuaJIT.
Experience with Datadog/OpenTelemetry.
Experience contributing to Open Source Software projects.
Experience with working or developing L4/L7 proxies such as Nginx, HA-proxy, Envoy, or others.
Experience with hybrid deployments and compatibility between schemas across versions.
We love to work together, so this opportunity is a hybrid one. What does that mean?We come to the office three days a week and work from home the other two days. Life happens, and we are cool if you need to work remotely sometime.
Please mention No Whiteboard if you apply! I'm a one-man team looking to improve tech interviews, and could use any support! 😄
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