Senior Software Engineer - Gateway - Shanghai

China Shanghai, ChinaOn-site

Requirements

Experience designing, prototyping, 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 - 3+ years of Rust programming
experience with solid understanding of async Rust.
experience with Tokio. - Contributions to Rust open source projects. - Hands-on
experience with NGINX/OpenResty/Kong/LuaJIT. - Understanding of inner workings of VM implementations like LuaJIT, eBPF and/or WASM. #LI-WL1 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.

What you'll bring: - 5+ years of programming in server-side applications and components. -

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.