Kong

The AI Connectivity Company

Software & SaaS · 1,001–5,000 employees · San Francisco, California

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Hiring record

How Kong hires

Strong record. Fewer than a quarter of its open roles have been listed for more than 60 days.

Open now: 32
Over 60 days: 7
Median days open: 24
Reposted roles: 0

Measured nightly from every posting on its own careers page. How we score

About Kong

No AI without APIs. Kong Inc., a leading developer of API and AI connectivity technologies, is building the connectivity layer for 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.

Specialties

API gateway
AI Gateway
API Management
LLM traffic governance
API security
Semantic Caching
API lifecycle management
multi-LLM routing
API rate limiting
token budget management
API monetization
prompt injection prevention
API traffic control
API traffic management
LLM load balancing
API observability
AI cost governance
declarative API configuration
AI observability
API developer portal
agentic AI infrastructure
model context protocol
agent-to-agent governance
A2A governance
MCP
MCP Gateway
Agent Gateway
multi-agent orchestration
AI data path security
usage-based pricing
usage metering and billing
event gateway
Kafka protocol proxy
event-driven architecture
event stream governance
service mesh
zero-trust networking
microservices connectivity
envoy-based infrastructure
Kubernetes Ingress Controller
Kubernetes Gateway API
hybrid cloud deployment
multi-cloud API management
OAuth 2.0
OIDC Authentication
SAML SSO
zero-trust security
API access control
role-based access control
RBAC
API design
API testing
API debugging
OpenAPI
AsyncAPI
API entitlements

From Kong’s LinkedIn page, matched to the employer’s own website.

Industry: Software & SaaS
Company size: 1,001–5,000 employees
Headquarters: San Francisco, California

Offices

44 Montgomery St, San Francisco, California 94104, US
Chicago, Illinois 60610, US
London, GB
Singapore, SG
Shanghai, CN
Beijing, CN

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Open jobs at Kong

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Kong

How Kong hires

Open jobs at Kong

Senior Exec IT & Events Engineer

Software Engineer 2

Forward Deployed Engineer, GTM

Senior Software Engineer

Engineering Manager, Managed Gateways Infrastructure

Staff Software Engineer, Metering and Billing

Senior Software Engineer, Metering & Billing

Senior Software Engineer, AI Gateway

Software Engineer, AI Gateway

Senior Software Engineer, Control Plane

Software Engineer

Senior Software Engineer, API Gateway - Shanghai

Senior Software Engineer, AI Gateway - Shanghai

Developer Advocate - Volcano

Senior Security Engineer (Security Champion), Runtimes

Staff Product Manager, AI Management

Product Manager, Billing (Senior Staff)

Senior Staff Software Engineer - Agent Marketplace

Site Reliability Engineer 2

Software Engineer 2, Managed Gateways