Kong
Software Engineer AI Gateway
Remote Software Engineer (AI) role with clear candidate location fit.
PostedJun 18, 2026
Eligible countries1 accepted country
Seniority signalJunior
Work settingRemote
Accepted candidate locations
Italy
Role overview
Software Engineer AI Gateway
Requirements and responsibilities
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What you'll be doing:
- Responsible for building and maintaining API management software for AI and LLMs and its underlying stack.
- Implement new innovative features including proxying capabilities, load balancing, databases support that extend Kong AI Gateway’s offering.
- Bugs troubleshooting, performance tuning and low-level optimizations.
- Fill the gaps between Kong and third-party deployment platforms and tooling.
- Any additional tasks required by manager.
What you'll bring:
- 3+ years of programming in server-side applications and components.
- Hands on experience with either Golang or Rust
- Experience building and debugging applications that are highly scalable, distributed, reliable and resilient.
- Solid hands-on low-level technical expertise in Linux systems troubleshooting, and profiling.
- Experience in distributed systems, Linux networking stack and computer systems programming, Kong works with APIs on both L7 and L4 transports and protocols, so this expertise and knowledge are required.
- Comfortable working with a remotely distributed team.
- Strong sense of ownership and excellent verbal and written communication skills -- engineers at Kong write the documentation for their products
- Familiarity with AI LLM concepts and applications development
Bonus Points:
- Hands on experience with NGINX/OpenResty/Kong/LuaJIT.
- Hands on experience with Envoy or Istio.
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