Senior Software Engineer, Gateway Enterprise - Shanghai
Kong · China-Shanghai · All Cost Center
About this role
Kong is hiring a senior-level Software Engineer based in China-Shanghai. The posting calls out experience with Rust, C, Lua, AWS.
- Role
- Software Engineer
- Function
- software engineering
- Level
- senior
- Track
- Individual contributor
- Employment
- Full-time
- Location
- China-Shanghai
- Department
- All Cost Center
- Posted
- Mar 4, 2026
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Job description
from Kong careersAre you ready to unlock intelligence?
If you don’t think you meet all of the criteria below but are still interested in the job, please apply. Nobody checks every box - we’re looking for candidates that are particularly strong in a few areas, and have some interest and capabilities in others.
About the role:
As a member of a team, you’ll need strong technical skills and a solid background in Computer science and technology to be able to accept various challenges, make valuable contributions, and generally have a great experience in Kong. You will have the opportunity to influence the culture, facilitate technical delivery, and collaborate with your team on the strategy and execution of our key product.
What you'll be doing:
Work on our proxy stack which is based on Nginx/OpenResty.
Organize and prioritize complex problem resolution and bug fixes, debugging distributed services.
Contribute to the Kong Gateway OSS and Enterprise product.
What you'll bring:
At least 5 year of experience in computer operating systems and deep understanding of Linux system runtime and networking stack.
Solid hands-on low-level technical experience in Linux systems troubleshooting and profiling, experience in debugging tools such as gdb, systemtap, tcpdump, crash, etc.
Experience with public cloud providers like AWS, GCP or Azure.
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