Job Overview
Location
India-Karnataka
Job Type
Full-time
Category
DevOps & SysAdmin
Date Posted
May 28, 2026
Full Job Description
đź“‹ Description
- • As an SRE for Managed Gateways at Kong Inc., you will be pivotal in ensuring the rock-solid reliability, scalability, and performance of Kong's critical managed services, directly impacting customer trust and positioning Kong as a leader in the Agentic Era through unparalleled product stability.
- • You will implement and maintain robust automation for deploying and operating Kong's Managed Gateways across various cloud environments, monitor system health and performance to strive for 99.99% availability, resolve complex production incidents efficiently through on-call rotations, build resilient tools to enhance platform reliability, contribute to preventing technical debt, and collaborate closely with engineering teams to design and implement highly scalable services.
- • Kong Inc. is a leading developer of API and AI connectivity technologies, trusted by Fortune 500 companies and startups, building the infrastructure that powers the agentic era through its unified API and AI platform, Kong Konnect, which enables organizations to secure, manage, accelerate, govern, and monetize the flow of intelligence across APIs and AI models.
- • In this role, you will deepen your expertise in SRE practices, cloud-native infrastructure, and API gateway technologies while contributing to high-impact systems that scale globally, gaining hands-on experience with Kubernetes, major cloud platforms, and observability tools, and growing your ability to drive urgent issue resolution and cross-functional collaboration in a fast-paced, innovative environment.
🎯 Requirements
- • Experience applying Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) principles and practices in a production environment
- • Proficiency in at least one of Golang or Python for automation, tooling, and infrastructure as code
- • Hands-on experience with Kubernetes and major cloud platforms such as AWS, GCP, or Azure
- • Familiarity with monitoring, logging, and alerting tools (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog)
- • Solid understanding of networking concepts, distributed systems, and API gateways
🏖️ Benefits
- • Opportunity to own the reliability and performance of critical production systems with a strong sense of accountability
- • Chance to drive urgent resolution of issues with a bias for action, minimizing customer impact
- • Environment that fosters effective collaboration with cross-functional teams and shared understanding
- • Bonus consideration for experience with Kong Gateway or other API management platforms
- • Bonus consideration for relevant cloud certifications (e.g., AWS Certified DevOps Engineer, Kubernetes Administrator)
- • Bonus consideration for active contributions to open-source projects or developer communities
Skills & Technologies
About Kong Inc.
Kong Inc. is a San Francisco-based software company that develops an open-source API gateway and service connectivity platform. The company offers Kong Gateway, Kong Mesh, and Konnect cloud services to manage, secure, and observe microservices and APIs across clouds and data centers. Founded in 2007 as Mashape, it rebranded to Kong in 2017. Kong’s technology provides traffic control, authentication, rate limiting, and analytics for modern distributed architectures, supporting organizations in digital transformation and cloud-native adoption.
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