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title: 'Software Engineer at Kong'
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# Software Engineer at Kong

- **Company:** [Kong](https://feeny.ai/companies/kong)
- **Location:** Toronto, Canada
- **Compensation:** $118k–$140k
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** hybrid
- **Posted:** 2026-01-22
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-11
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/kong/e75c7ded-f94e-4ee8-9365-794bbd0e0e91/application

**Skills:** TypeScript, Node.js, NestJS, PostgreSQL, REST APIs, Kafka, SQS, Distributed Systems, Kubernetes, CI/CD, GitHub Actions, Jenkins, GitHub, JIRA, Confluence, Stripe, Chargebee, Zuora, Metronome, Lago

> The Software Engineer will build and maintain TypeScript microservices for Kong's Billing Platform, handling subscription management, entitlement provisioning, and usage metering. This role involves developing event-driven features, integrating with payment platforms, and ensuring data accuracy in a distributed syst...

## 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.

About the role: The Software Engineer will be a key contributor to the Billing Platform Team, building and maintaining the TypeScript microservices that power Kong's commercial infrastructure. You'll work across the full billing lifecycle, developing features for subscription management, entitlement provisioning, usage metering, and CRM integrations, while growing your expertise in distributed systems and financial platform engineering. This role requires solid backend fundamentals, TypeScript proficiency, and a strong sense of ownership in a domain where data accuracy directly impacts revenue.

What You'll Do:

- Develop and maintain TypeScript microservices that support billing lifecycle management across self-serve and enterprise plan models.
- Build and maintain integrations with payment processing and usage metering platforms for invoice generation and consumption tracking.
- Implement reliable event-driven features using Kafka or similar platforms to process billing state transitions, entitlement updates, and provisioning triggers.
- Contribute to the entitlement enforcement layer that controls product access based on customer plan and contract state.
- Work on provisioning workflows that automate the path from sales contract events to live org configurations.
- Collaborate with senior engineers, RevOps, and finance stakeholders to deliver accurate and auditable billing behavior.
- Write clean, maintainable, well-tested code with comprehensive unit and integration tests across financial workflows.
- Participate in code reviews and design discussions, with a focus on correctness and operational reliability.
- Monitor service health and contribute to operational improvements for billing platform services.
- Participate in on-call rotation to support the reliability of billing platform services.

What You'll Bring:

- 3+ years of professional software engineering experience building backend services.
- Strong proficiency in TypeScript and Node.js with experience building production services, ideally with NestJS or a similar framework.
- Solid experience with relational databases (PostgreSQL or similar) including data modeling and query design.
- Experience building or consuming REST APIs and working with third-party service integrations.
- Understanding of event-driven architecture patterns and message-based systems (Kafka, SQS, or similar).
- Familiarity with distributed systems concepts including eventual consistency, idempotency, and failure handling.
- Experience with multi-tenant SaaS systems and awareness of per-tenant data isolation requirements.
- Experience deploying and operating services on Kubernetes in a cloud environment.
- Solid computer science fundamentals including data structures, algorithms, and system design.
- Experience with CI/CD pipelines and tools such as GitHub Actions or Jenkins.
- Demonstrated skills using code repositories and collaboration tools (GitHub, JIRA, Confluence, or similar).
- Experience working with globally distributed teams.
- Strong debugging skills and ability to trace data consistency issues across service boundaries.

Bonus Points:

- Experience with billing or payment platforms such as Stripe, Chargebee, Zuora, or usage metering systems such as Metronome or Lago.
- Familiarity with CRM-driven provisioning workflows or Salesforce event consumption.
- Exposure to Snowflake or other data warehouse platforms used for business logic or contract aggregation.
- Experience with ClickHouse, Druid, or similar OLAP systems for usage and analytics data.
- Knowledge of subscription lifecycle concepts including trials, prorations, renewals, and credits.
- Experience building internal admin tooling for operational or support use cases.
- Familiarity with AWS services (EKS, RDS, SQS, S3, or similar).
- Knowledge of Infrastructure as Code tools such as Terraform or Pulumi.
- Experience with observability and monitoring tools (Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana, or OpenTelemetry).
- Fullstack capable with experience building lightweight internal UIs.
- A genuine interest in systems where data correctness has real commercial stakes.
- Experience with Docker, Kafka, CDC, or Flink is a plus.

## #LI-MP1

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).

## About Kong

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Kong provides a unified API and AI platform that connects, secures, and manages APIs, events, and AI agents for modern architectures.
- **Entity Type**: Private – Series E, post‑money valuation $2B (2023)
- **Headquarters**: San Francisco, California, United States
- **Founded**: 2017 (company formalized; roots as Mashape go back to 2009)
- **Founders**: Augusto “Aghi” Marietti (CEO) and Marco Palladino (CTO)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: API management, AI connectivity, cloud infrastructure
- **Target customers**: B2B – enterprises, platform engineering teams, developers, and product managers building API‑driven or AI‑agent applications
- **Mission / Purpose**: To be the AI connectivity company – enabling organizations to connect, govern, and monetize APIs, events, and AI workloads at scale.

## Products & Services
- **[Kong Konnect](https://konghq.com/)**: Managed, unified API and AI platform covering the full lifecycle – design, test, publish, govern, monetize – across any cloud or environment. SaaS.
- **[Kong Gateway](https://konghq.com/)**: Open‑source (and enterprise) API gateway, the world’s most adopted, used for traffic management, security, and observability. Open‑source hybrid.
- **[Kong AI Gateway](https://konghq.com/)**: Extension for managing and securing AI traffic – token consumption, cost control, and agent governance. SaaS / add‑on.
- **[Kong Mesh](https://konghq.com/)**: Enterprise service mesh for Kubernetes and VMs (based on Kuma, donated to CNCF). Infrastructure.
- **[Insomnia](https://konghq.com/)**: API design and testing tool (acquired and integrated into the Kong ecosystem). Desktop / CLI.
- **[OpenMeter](https://konghq.com/)**: Usage‑based billing, entitlements, and invoicing for APIs, events, and AI (acquired 2025). SaaS.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation / Market Cap**: $2 billion (as of late 2023 Series E round) – not publicly traded.
- **Key Metric**: Surpassed **$100M ARR** in late 2023; processes **+1 trillion API/AI requests per day**; **600+ employees** in 25+ countries (LinkedIn reports 738 employees with +23.5% YoY growth).
- **Total Funding**: **$344.1M** across 6 rounds (including Series D $100M at $1.4B, and Series E $175M led by new investors).
- **Notable Investors / Partners**: Include large institutional investors; partners include cloud providers and enterprises such as United Airlines (cited as customer). Open‑source community with 182K+ community users.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Most adopted open‑source API gateway** – strong developer mindshare and large community.
- **Unified platform** covering the entire API lifecycle plus AI agent management, reducing fragmentation for enterprises.
- **High‑performance, low‑latency** – proven at hyper‑volume (+1T requests/day), 99.99% availability SLA.
- **Strategic acquisitions** (Kuma, Insomnia, OpenMeter) that plug gaps in service mesh, developer tooling, and usage‑based billing.
- **Strong enterprise DNA** – trusted by global brands for mission‑critical applications.

## Strategic Focus
- **AI connectivity** – building the layer to manage LLM traffic, agent security, token cost, and real‑time data streams.
- **Monetization** – enabling customers to monetize APIs and AI consumption (chargeback, entitlements, pricing).
- **Developer productivity** – accelerating onboarding and reducing costs (claims 15% faster development, 57% operational cost reduction).
- **Global scale** – growing remote workforce and entering new geographic markets (e.g., Italy, ANZ roles posted).

## Why Work Here
- **Remote‑first culture** – 600+ employees across 25+ countries; strong emphasis on global collaboration.
- **Perks & benefits** (from [careers page](https://konghq.com/company/careers)):
  - Stock options for most employees
  - 4‑week paid sabbatical every 5 years
  - Flexible time off
  - Home office stipend
  - Regular “unplug days” (company‑wide long weekends)
  - Virtual events (Donut chats, trivia, fitness challenges)
- **Engineering culture** – values “owners, explorers, real, unstoppable” and encourages individual innovation. Focus on shipping fast and high trust.
- **Growth trajectory** – company is scaling (+23.5% headcount YoY) and is a unicorn with clear product‑market fit in a hot market (AI + API management).
- **Open roles** – 93 open positions across engineering, sales, solutions, customer success, and marketing.

## Sources
1. [konghq.com](https://konghq.com/)
2. [konghq.com/company/careers](https://konghq.com/company/careers)
3. [konghq.com/company/about-us](https://konghq.com/company/about-us)
4. [linkedin.com/company/konghq](https://www.linkedin.com/company/konghq)
5. [jobs.ashbyhq.com/kong](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/kong)

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