Custom Software Engineer
Project Role Description : Develop custom software solutions to design, code, and enhance components across systems or applications. Use modern frameworks and agile practices to deliver scalable, high-performing solutions tailored to specific business needs.
Must have skills : Kong Gateway
Good to have skills : Spring Boot, Java Full Stack Development
Minimum 5 year(s) of experience is required
Educational Qualification : BTech or MTech or MCA with IT or CSE or EEE or ECE 15 years fulltime education 15 years fulltime education
The role requires an experienced Kong API Gateway Subject Matter Expert to lead the architecture, security, automation, performance, and operations of enterprise API gateway environments.
Key responsibilities:
Design and manage Kong Control Plane/Data Plane, multi-region, Kubernetes, OpenShift, and cloud deployments.
Select and implement DB-less or PostgreSQL-backed architectures.
Tune Nginx/OpenResty performance and develop custom Kong plugins using Lua/Kong PDK.
Manage gateway configurations through decK, GitOps, and CI/CD pipelines, including drift detection and zero-downtime deployments.
Integrate enterprise authentication using OIDC, OAuth2, JWT, Azure AD, Okta, or Ping Identity.
Implement mTLS, RBAC, rate limiting, circuit breakers, health checks, fallback handling, and edge caching.
Integrate monitoring and observability tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, and Datadog.
Establish API governance standards and guide development teams on secure and scalable API practices.
Required qualifications:
At least 4 years of production experience with Kong Enterprise or Kong Open Source.
Strong knowledge of hybrid-cloud and distributed API gateway architecture.
Experience with Lua, OpenResty, Go, or Python.
Advanced knowledge of Kubernetes/OpenShift, ingress controllers, and networking.
Hands-on experience with decK, GitOps, and automated deployment pipelines.
Bengaluru
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