Gateway Engineering Manager (Remote)
Kong
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Los Angeles, CA, USA
Posted on May 16, 2024
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About the role:
You will be a leader of a Kong Gateway engineering team. These teams are responsible for the Open Source and Enterprise Kong Gateway, the foundational technology for our product offerings.
Your team will be responsible for building the core pieces of the gateway which include the router, balancer, plugins development kit (PDK), management API, observability metrics, distributed clustering infrastructure, as well as support for the growing number of protocols and interoperability needs of our customers.
What you'll be doing:
- Hire, mentor, and maintain healthy Engineering teams who value collaboration and innovation.
- Manage shift scheduling, measuring key performance indicators (KPIs), and training, assure high-quality work and SLA.
- Solid technical expertise for Linux systems troubleshooting, and profiling, experience with debugging tools such as gdb, systemtap, tcpdump, crash, or other.
- Leadership experience displaying the ability to organize and prioritize complex problem resolution and bug fixes, debugging distributed services.
- Organize and manage your teams to fit constructively into the org as a whole and help the company succeed.
- Set and manage expectations with other engineering teams, senior management, and external stakeholders.
- Give constructive feedback to Engineers, conduct 1:1’s, address interpersonal issues, and conduct reviews.
- Suggest Engineering guidelines, principles, and processes to improve the Engineering org.
- Assure high-quality work and SLA adherence from the entire Engineering org.
- Any additional tasks required by the manager.
What you'll bring:
- 4+ years of Eng management experience.
- Experience managing remote teams.
- Experience doing reviews, hiring, comp.
- Demonstrated leadership of Engineering teams.
- Proven customer relationship skill sets (internal and external customers).
- On-premise, cloud, and hybrid product background.
- Experience working on an infrastructure product line.
About Kong:
Kong is THE cloud native API platform with the fastest, most adopted API gateway in the world (over 300m downloads!). Loved by developers and trusted with enterprises’ most critical traffic volumes, Kong helps startups and Fortune 500 companies build with confidence – allowing them to bring solutions to market faster with API and service connectivity that scales easily and securely.
83% of web traffic today is API calls! APIs are the connective tissue of the cloud and the underlying technology that allows software to talk and interact with one another. Therefore, we believe that APIs act as the nervous system of the cloud. Our audacious mission is to build the nervous system that will safely and reliably connect all of humankind!
For more information about Kong, please visit konghq.com or follow @thekonginc on Twitter.
We are an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or veteran status.
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