Senior Software Engineer, Konnect Control Plane
Core
Architect and scale microservices for a cloud-hosted control plane managing global customer configurations for an API connectivity platform.
Role type
Senior Software Engineer (Backend/Infrastructure)
Builds
Cloud-hosted control plane, microservices, low-latency APIs
Domain
Cloud infrastructure, API management, SaaS
Deliverable
production ML models | product features | infrastructure
Required skills
Go (Golang), relational database design, microservices architecture, Kubernetes, containerization, L4/L7 proxies (Nginx, HA-proxy, Envoy), API lifecycle management, automated testing (TDD)
Preferred skills
Idiomatic Go optimization, Nginx/OpenResty/LuaJIT, cloud-native observability (Datadog, OpenTelemetry), open-source contributions
Technologies
Go, Kubernetes, Nginx, Envoy, OpenResty, Datadog, OpenTelemetry, HA-proxy
Responsibilities
Architect and scale microservices for the control plane; Design and maintain low-latency APIs; Drive solutions for moderate complexity technical problems; Write robust automated tests to prevent regressions; Participate in on-call rotation for production reliability; Collaborate with Product Management and cross-functional teams
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC