Senior Software Engineer, AI Gateway - Shanghai
Core
Designing, building, and maintaining API management software and its underlying stack, including proxying, load balancing, and database support.
Role type
Senior Systems Engineer (Core Team)
Builds
Kong's unified API and AI platform (proxying, load balancing, database support)
Domain
API Management / Distributed Systems / AI Connectivity
Deliverable
production ML models | product features
Required skills
Server-side application development, Distributed systems design, Linux systems programming, Low-level optimization, Linux networking stack, API protocol expertise (L7/L4), Remote team collaboration
Preferred skills
AI LLM concepts and applications, NGINX/OpenResty/Kong/LuaJIT, Envoy/Istio, Rust
