Software Engineer - Kubernetes

What You’ll Be Doing

• Contributing to the development and maintenance of Kong’s Gateway Operator and Ingress Controller to ensure reliability and performance.
• Delivering assigned tasks that meet acceptance criteria, working on problems of moderate scope where analysis requires a review of a variety of factors.
• Writing readable, maintainable, and adequately tested code in Golang while ensuring code quality through automated testing and participating in peer reviews.
• Collaborating with cross-functional teams (engineering, product, DevOps) to build new features and build productive internal working relationships.
• Contributing to the design of components within a larger system, understanding the trade-offs of different approaches and articulating your reasoning.
• Debugging and solving problems within your area of the codebase, exercising judgment within defined procedures and practices.
• Engaging with the open-source community under the guidance of senior team members.

What You’ll Bring

• 1-2+ years of professional software engineering experience (or comparable).
• Proficiency in Golang (or strong proficiency in C/C++/Java/Python with a willingness to learn Go rapidly).
• Familiarity with Kubernetes architecture and concepts (e.g., Pods, Deployments, Services, CRDs).
• Ability to deliver routine work with general instructions and tackle new projects or assignments with detailed instructions.
• Experience writing unit and integration tests.
• A strong learning mindset, self-awareness to acknowledge strengths and weaknesses, and a drive to actively manage your growth.
• Good communication skills and the ability to collaborate effectively in a distributed, remote-first team.

Bonus Points

• Contributions to open-source projects, particularly in the cloud-native ecosystem (e.g., Kubernetes, Envoy).
• Basic understanding of API Gateways, Service Meshes, or the Kubernetes Gateway API.
• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and DevOps practices.

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