Senior Software Engineer- Logs and traces

What you'll do:

• Implement and maintain services that power Konnect, such as Kong's cloud-hosted control plane.
• Contribute to Kong's Cloud and Enterprise services.
• Design and implement solutions to technical problems of moderate complexity.
• Support those services in production by participating in an on-call rotation.
• Write automated tests to ensure behavior of code and avoid regressions.
• Mentor other team members.
• And any additional tasks required by manager.

What you'll bring:

• Bachelors or Masters degree in Computer Science.
• 5+ years working in a team to develop, deliver, and maintain complex software solutions.
• Expert understanding of Go programming language and experience in working on large scale Go codebase
• Experience designing, prototyping, building and debugging microservices architectures and distributed systems.
• Experience baking in monitoring and observability into the code for availability, resilience and performance of the code
• Experience with object storage like S3 as well as streaming systems like Kafka.
• Expertise in designing and writing APIs, and a firm grasp of API lifecycle management.
• Experience developing and supporting a large scale SaaS platform; with working knowledge of containerization and Kubernetes.
• Experience with public cloud providers like AWS, GCP or Azure.
• Expertise with data modeling in relational databases.
• Understanding of and development with git and Github workflows.
• Expertise in test-driven development and automated testing.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.

Bonus Points:

• Deep experience with Go; effective go standards.
• Experience with NGINX/OpenResty/Kong/LuaJIT.
• Experience with Datadog/OpenTelemetry.
• Experience contributing to Open Source Software projects.
• Experience with working or developing L4/L7 proxies such as Nginx, HA-proxy, Envoy, or others.
• Experience with hybrid deployments and compatibility between schemas across versions.
We love to work together, so this opportunity is a hybrid one. What does that mean?We come to the office three days a week and work from home the other two days. Life happens, and we are cool if you need to work remotely sometime.