# Senior Software Engineer, Control Planes

**Company:** [Kong](https://zerogtalent.com/ai-companies/kong)
**Location:** Canada
**Work mode:** Hybrid
**Seniority:** Senior
**Employment type:** Full Time
**Salary:** CAD 130K–180K/yr
**Category:** Engineering
**Department:** All Cost Center
**Listed:** 2026-11-09

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## What you'll do

- Architect and scale cloud-hosted control plane microservices
- Design and maintain low-latency APIs and services
- Drive solutions for moderate technical problems
- Write robust automated tests to prevent regressions
- Participate in production on-call rotation for reliability

## What you need

- 5+ yrs developing distributed software solutions in teams
- Proficiency in Go and relational database data models
- Experience building microservices architectures at scale
- DevOps monitoring and observability on Kubernetes and containers
- Working knowledge of L4/L7 proxies such as Nginx or Envoy

## Job description

**Are you ready to unlock intelligence?**

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.

  

### The Mission:

At Kong, we are pioneering the Agentic Era of service connectivity by building the infrastructure that powers the modern API world. As a Software Engineer on the Konnect Control Plane team, you will architect the next-generation cloud-hosted control plane that manages global customer configurations seamlessly.

Your work will directly empower developers worldwide, ensuring high availability, speed, and seamless connectivity for Kong’s flagship service connectivity platform.

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What You’ll Do:

-   Architect and scale microservices that power Kong Konnect’s cloud-hosted control plane to manage global customer configurations seamlessly.
    
-   Design, implement, and maintain highly performant, low-latency APIs and services that deliver exceptional Developer Delight.
    
-   Drive solutions for technical problems of moderate complexity, keeping an active focus on preventing technical debt.
    
-   Prevent regressions and guarantee product stability by writing robust, automated tests.
    
-   Own the reliability and uptime of services in production by participating in an active on-call rotation.
    
-   Collaborate closely with Product Management, Solutions Architects, and cross-functional engineering teams to implement impactful business features.
    

### **What You’ll Bring:**

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**The Toolkit**

-   5+ years of experience working in a team environment to develop, deliver, and maintain complex, distributed software solutions.
    
-   Solid proficiency in Go (Golang) and designing relational database data models.
    
-   Practical experience building, debugging, and maintaining microservices architectures at scale.
    
-   Demonstrated experience performing DevOps monitoring, observability, and supporting a large-scale SaaS platform running on Kubernetes and containerized environments.
    
-   Working knowledge of L4/L7 proxies such as Nginx, HA-proxy, or Envoy.
    
-   Firm grasp of API lifecycle management, design standards, and testing frameworks (TDD/automated testing).
    
-   Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
    

### **The Kong DNA**

-   Ownership: You act as a driver, not a passenger, and take complete accountability for the quality of your systems and outcomes.
    
-   Urgency: You thrive in a high-growth environment, iterating quickly and pushing for results with passion and grit.
    
-   Collaboration: You break down silos, communicate transparently, and model the true spirit of a team player.
    

### **Bonus Points:**

-   Deep experience with Go standards and writing idiomatic, highly optimized Go.
    
-   Direct experience with Nginx, OpenResty, LuaJIT, or the Kong gateway core.
    
-   Experience with cloud-native observability stacks, specifically Datadog or OpenTelemetry.
    
-   Active contributions to open-source software projects.
    

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**About Kong:**

Kong Inc., the AI Connectivity Company, is building the connectivity layer of AI. Trusted by the Fortune 500® and AI-native startups alike, Kong’s unified API and AI platform enables organizations to secure, manage, accelerate, govern, and monetize the flow of intelligence across APIs and AI traffic — on any model, any cloud. For more information, visit [www.konghq.com](http://www.konghq.com).

## Other open roles at Kong

- [Growth Enterprise Account Executive - Austin](https://zerogtalent.com/ai-jobs/kong/growth-enterprise-account-executive-austin-e5b3f6c3-e813-491a-ba28-18e9fb7cc4ce) — Texas, United States
- [Enterprise Account Executive - Minnesota](https://zerogtalent.com/ai-jobs/kong/enterprise-account-executive-minnesota-08d2d2fa-cd27-4091-8a92-15d78afb950d) — Minnesota, United States
- [Enterprise Account Executive - Texas](https://zerogtalent.com/ai-jobs/kong/enterprise-account-executive-texas-7630e70e-aeca-4f33-a420-3145e99e28fd) — Texas, United States
- [ADR Germany](https://zerogtalent.com/ai-jobs/kong/adr-germany-99b390ce-8d98-40fc-8c65-761bbf0f4da2) — England, United Kingdom
- [Manager, Sales Development - Chicago, IL](https://zerogtalent.com/ai-jobs/kong/manager-sales-development-chicago-il-f281e5f0-d3b8-4bfb-a8a7-1d74fcb2dd0a) — Illinois, United States

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