Software Engineer, Gateway - Shanghai

Are you ready to power the World's connections?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. Nobody checks every box - we’re looking for candidates that are particularly strong in a few areas, and have some interest and capabilities in others.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 be doing: 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 the open source community and extend Kong core to support the latest industry trends.Fill the gaps between Kong and third-party deployment platforms and tooling.And any additional tasks required by manager. What you'll bring: 3+ years of programming in server-side applications and components.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 products3+ years of Rust programming experience with solid understanding of async Rust. Bonus Points: Hands-on 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. Additional Information We are an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or veteran status.About Kong:Kong creates software and managed services that connect APIs and microservices natively across and within clouds, Kubernetes, data centers and more using intelligent automation. Built on an open source core, Kong’s service connectivity platform enables digital innovation by allowing organizations to reliably and securely manage the full lifecycle of APIs and services for modern architectures, including microservices, serverless and service mesh. By providing developer teams with unprecedented architectural freedom, Kong accelerates innovation cycles, increases productivity, and seamlessly bridges legacy and modern systems and applications. For more information about Kong, please visitkonghq.comor follow@thekongincon Twitter.Apply Now#LI-CL1

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