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Senior Software Engineer, API Gateway - Shanghai
kong · Shanghai, Shanghai · Posted 14 days ago
Build core proxying, load balancing, and database features for Kong, an open-source API management platform with global adoption.
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About the Role: Kong is an open-source project with a global adoption around the world. Developers and architects are adopting Kong in production among a large variety of use-cases, and actively help make Kong a better product with their feedback and contributions.
As a Systems Engineer in the Core Team, you will be working on core features such as proxying capabilities, load balancing, and database support with forward-thinking. You will be responsible for building foundations for other teams and customers, discovering and producing cutting edge industry trends and use-cases. What You'll Do:
- Responsible for designing, building and maintaining API management software and its underlying stack.
- Architecture, design, and implement new innovative features including proxying capabilities, load balancing, databases support that extend Kong’s offering.
- Bugs troubleshooting, performance tuning and low-level optimizations. Engage with open source community and extend Kong core to support the latest industry trends.
- 5+ years of programming in server-side applications and components.
- Experience designing, prototyping, building and debugging applications that are highly scalable, distributed, reliable and resilient.
- Hands on experience with Rust
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