Kong Lead developer

We are looking for a Sr. Kong Middleware Engineer or Kong Lead with strong hands-on experience around API Services implementation and providing Best Practices solutions in Kong platform.

Key Responsibilities

· Design and implement APIs using Kong Gateway (services, routes, upstreams, plugins).

· Provide best design patterns, security patterns and testing patterns in Kong platform.

· Implement API security patterns including OAuth2/OIDC, JWT, mTLS, rate limiting, and traffic controls.

· Deploy and operate Kong and APIs on AWS (EKS/ECS/EC2, ALB/NLB, IAM, VPC, CloudWatch).

· Implement CI/CD pipelines for Kong configurations services.

· Put guardrails around API deployment to higher environment using best practices in Kong.

· Recommend Kong plugins

· Enable monitoring, logging, and operational support for APIs and gateway components.

· Collaborate with architects, SRE/operations, and security teams in an onsite delivery model.

Required Qualifications

· 8+ years of software development experience with strong API/backend focus.

· 2+ years of Kong API Gateway experience in leading the implementation.

· Native Kong plugin development experience using Lua/OpenResty is a plus.

· Experience integrating with .NET / C# applications with Kong platform.

· Solid understanding of API security, governance, and performance best practices.

· Experience deploying Kong containers and nodes on AWS cloud.

· Experience with Docker, Kubernetes (EKS preferred), Git, and CI/CD pipelines.

· Strong communication and collaboration skills.

Core Skills

Kong Gateway | Lua/OpenResty | AWS | API Security | CI/CD | API Design Patterns