Software Engineer 2, Ai Gateway

2 giorni fa

Toscana, Italia Kong Tempo pieno 55.000 € - 75.000 € Contratto

Join the AI Gateway engineering team to help build and evolve Kong's API management stack for AI and LLM workloads. You will shape core features like multi-LLM routing, semantic caching, and high-scale components, partnering with a distributed team to deliver reliable, low-latency capabilities. You’ll work on proxying, load balancing, and platform integrations, driving performance and robustness. This role offers the chance to influence how enterprises govern AI-driven API traffic at scale. A strong candidate brings hands-on systems expertise and a proactive, ownership-driven approach.

  • Equity
  • Bonus
  • Health, dental, and vision insurance
  • Paid holidays and PTO
  • Build and maintain API management software for AI/LLM stacks
  • Develop features such as proxying, load balancing, and database support for Kong AI Gateway
  • Troubleshoot bugs, tune performance, and perform low-level optimizations
  • Bridge Kong with third-party deployment platforms and tooling
  • Handle additional tasks as assigned by management
  • 3+ years of server-side programming
  • Hands-on experience with Golang or Rust
  • Proven ability to build and debug highly scalable, distributed, reliable systems
  • Strong Linux systems troubleshooting and profiling skills
  • Experience with distributed systems and Linux networking on L7/L4
  • Comfortable working in a globally distributed team
  • Strong ownership and communication skills (documentation written by engineers)
  • Familiarity with AI/LLM concepts
  • ownership
  • clear written and verbal communication
  • collaboration in a distributed team
  • Golang
  • Rust
  • Linux systems programming and profiling

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