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Software Engineer 2, AI Gateway

kong · Milan, Lombardy · Posted 13 days ago

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3+ yrs expGoRustLLMAPI managementKongMCPDistributed systemsLoad balancing

Build core multi-LLM routing, semantic caching, and MCP features for Kong's AI Gateway, which governs AI and LLM traffic for companies and developers worldwide.

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You will join the engineering team that builds the Kong AI gateway, empowering companies and developers around the world to govern every step of their AI & LLM based innovation.

As a Software Engineer in the AI Gateway Team, you will be working on core features such as multi-LLM routing and balancing, semantic caching and routing, MCP, and more.

  • 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.
  • Any additional tasks required by manager.
  • 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.
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