Jobs at Kong

Develop and lead inbound and outbound sales campaigns, prospect to IT and business decision-makers, maintain lead activity in Salesforce, set qualified meetings, nurture early opportunities, and meet opportunity quotas. The role requires strong communication, cold-calling, relationship-building, sales learning agility, independent work, and collaboration with marketing and Account Executive teams.

Staff Solutions Engineer supporting enterprise sales through technical discovery, product demonstrations, proofs of concept, feasibility workshops, and solution architecture. The role focuses on API management, AI connectivity, governance, agentic architectures, LLM traffic management, and enterprise security. Responsibilities include managing complex technical deals, mentoring junior engineers, producing technical content, collaborating with product and engineering, and influencing product strategy through customer and market insights.

Own reliability for Kong’s Volcano internal developer platform by defining SLOs, incident practices, and observability. Design multi-region Kubernetes infrastructure, GitOps deployment automation, preview environments, managed PostgreSQL, Redis, and object storage. Lead reliability and compliance initiatives with engineering, security, and OCTO leadership while evaluating emerging edge, serverless, vector database, and AI infrastructure technologies.

Design and build scalable distributed backend systems and core services in Golang. Develop reliable, high-performance systems using PostgreSQL and Redis across microservices, networking layers, and cloud platforms. Prototype and productionize platform capabilities, collaborate on strategic technical initiatives, and influence engineering standards. The role focuses on AI infrastructure, distributed database provisioning, workflow orchestration, internal tooling, and developer experience.

Source and headhunt top GTM talent for the CRO organization, partner with GTM leaders to define role requirements, conduct deep-dive competency interviews focused on deal mechanics, drive a rigorous interview process, provide market data and advise hiring managers, mentor other recruiters, and track conversion metrics to optimize the hiring funnel.

Source and assess high-caliber go-to-market talent for Kong’s CRO organization. Responsibilities include mapping competitor sales teams, conducting targeted headhunting, advising GTM leaders, providing market compensation data, performing competency interviews focused on sales deal mechanics, improving interview funnel metrics, and mentoring recruiters on GTM terminology and closing strategies.

Embed with business teams to design and build AI-powered tools, automations, and workflows; coach and enable staff; create reusable solutions, documentation, adoption metrics, and governance; mentor junior members and translate AI developments into practical enterprise applications.