ENGINEERING MANAGER - KUBERNETES

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: You will be the leader of the Kong Kubernetes team. This team is responsible for delivering the enterprise and open-source versions of both Kong Ingress Controller and Kong Gateway Operator. As an Engineering Manager, you'll lead and grow a distributed team and be responsible for providing technical leadership to key projects, and empowering and developing the team members to do the same. You and your team will build, and continuously improve the Kong Kubernetes offering. Kong creates software and managed services that connect APIs and microservices natively across and within clouds, Kubernetes, data centers and more using intelligent automation. Built on an open source core, Kong’s service connectivity platform enables digital innovation by allowing organizations to reliably and securely manage the full lifecycle of APIs and services for modern architectures, including microservices, serverless and service mesh. By providing developer teams with unprecedented architectural freedom, Kong accelerates innovation cycles, increases productivity, and seamlessly bridges legacy and modern systems and applications. For more information about Kong, please visit or follow @thekonginc on Twitter. What you’ll be doing: Building software and systems to manage infrastructure and customer-facing applications on Kubernetes. Managing through uncertainty and partnering closely with development teams to design, build, deploy, support, and monitor new and existing Kong cloud services. Measuring and optimizing service performance and change management. Managing releases. Hiring, mentoring and maintaining healthy engineers who value collaboration and innovation. Working closely with the rest of the product engineering team to deliver novel software solutions to customer problems. Working closely with the Gateway team to integrate Kong’s newest features and improvements into the ingress controller and controller. Giving constructive feedback to Engineers, conducting 1:1’s, performing performance reviews and striving for continuous improvement. Suggesting guidelines, principles and processes to improve the Engineering org. Assuring high quality work. What you’ll bring: Overall 10+ years of Industry experience. 2+ years of Engineering management experience. Proven hands-on experience with Kubernetes. Knowledge of GatewayAPI and the wider Kubernetes ecosystem. Experience managing remote teams, doing reviews, hiring, and compensation. Experience with Docker, Go, AWS, GCP, and Azure. About Kong: Kong is THE cloud native API platform with the fastest, most adopted API gateway in the world (over 300m downloads!). As the innovation leader of cloud API technologies, Kong is on a mission to enable companies around the world to become "API-first" and securely accelerate AI adoption. Kong helps organizations globally - from startups to Fortune 500 enterprises - unleash developer productivity, build securely and accelerate to market. For more information about Kong, please visit or follow @thekonginc on Twitter. We are an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or veteran status. #J-18808-Ljbffr