Are you ready to join the API revolution?

About the role:

You will be responsible for building and maintaining workflows that automate releasing, testing and deploying Kong Cloud products. Improving staging and production environments for SaaS distributions. Research and build monitoring/analyze tools to optimize building and deploying code-base, manage distributed systems and application resources. You will build workflows for delivering our software to a variety of platforms including AWS, GCP, Azure, and container technologies like Docker, Swarm, Mesosphere and Kubernetes to automate deployment and scale our products.

What you bring:

• BS degree in Computer Science, similar technical field of study or equivalent practical experience
• Minimum of 3 years of relevant work experience
• Experience with continuous/rapid release engineering (CI/CD)
• "Infrastructure as Code" configuration management systems such as Terraform, Chef, Puppet or Ansible
• Experience building and administering alerting and monitoring systems for API services
• Strong knowledge of PostgreSQL/MySQL and Linux/Unix systems
• Knowledge of one or more mainstream programming languages (Go, C/C++, Python, PHP)
• Strong skills in network services such as DNS, TLS/SSL, HTTP
• Experience working in a 24/7/365 service environment

Bonus Points:

• Experience implementing secure and highly-available distributed systems/microservices
• Performance analysis and debugging with tools like perf, sar, strace, dtrace
• Time series databases (OpenTSDB, Graphite, Prometheus, Grafana)
• Design, implement, manage and orchestrate container clusters