Kong
Developer Tools · Integration & API Management
43open roles
$211kmedian advertised pay
Scaling fasthiring pace, 84 of 100
Atruth index, 86 of 100
Overview
Kong builds API connectivity software, starting with the widely deployed open-source Kong Gateway and extending into a service mesh, an ingress controller and an AI gateway that governs traffic to language models. Its platform handles authentication, rate limiting, observability and routing for the interfaces that connect internal services, partners and customers across cloud and on-premise environments. The company began life as the API marketplace Mashape before pivoting to infrastructure, and now sells to large enterprises worldwide.
How Kong hires
Truth index
A 86/100
Median time to fill
45 days
Ghost roles
0%
Stale roles
53%
Reposted roles
5%
Kong scores A on the Alion truth index (A is best, E worst), measured over 19 open roles re-checked against its own hiring board: 0% look like ghost listings, 53% have gone stale and 5% are the same role posted again. Its roles close in a median of 45 days. It measures how much of what this employer publishes turns into a real, finite search - not the employer as a workplace. How the index is computed
Jobs
In office · Full-Time · 5+ years exp · Shanghai
Rust
Lua
LuaJIT
AI/ML
AI Agents
LLM
DevOps
Istio
Envoy
Kong
Nginx
Linux
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$92k – $127k per year · Hybrid · Full-Time · 5+ years exp · Toronto
Go
Lua
LuaJIT
DevOps
OpenTelemetry
Datadog
Envoy
Kong
HAProxy
Kubernetes
Nginx
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Hybrid · Full-Time · 7+ years exp · United Arab Emirates
PostgreSQL
DevOps
Docker Swarm
Kong
AWS
Docker
Kubernetes
Nginx
Service Mesh
API Gateway
Linux
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Hybrid · Full-Time · 7+ years exp · United Kingdom
PostgreSQL
DevOps
Docker Swarm
Kong
AWS
Docker
Kubernetes
Nginx
Service Mesh
API Gateway
Linux
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$138k – $197k per year · In office · Full-Time · Sacramento
Kong
Analytics
Metabase
Management
Trello
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$220k – $250k per year · Remote (United States) · Full-Time · 7+ years exp · New York
Copilot
Claude Code
Model Context Protocol
AI Agents
LLM
OpenAI Codex
LLM Guardrails
Frontend
GraphQL
DevOps
Rest API
Kong
CI/CD
AWS
Docker
Kubernetes
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In office · Full-Time · United Kingdom
Python
Go
TypeScript
Model Context Protocol
Function Calling
AI Agents
LLM
DevOps
Kong
Kubernetes
Service Mesh
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Hybrid · Full-Time · 3+ years exp · Bachelor's Degree · Bengaluru
Go
Terraform
GCP
GitHub Actions
Kong
Azure
Jenkins
AWS
GitHub
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$130k – $148k per year · Remote (United States) · Full-Time · New York
Model Context Protocol
DevOps
Kong
Git
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$125k – $179k per year · Remote (United States) · Full-Time · 5+ years exp
Snowflake
AI/ML
Claude
Claude Code
AI Agents
Gemini
LLM
DevOps
Kong
Cybersecurity
Okta
Management
Jira
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≈ $21k – $48k per year (Estimated) · Hybrid · Full-Time · 5+ years exp · Bengaluru
Go
Rest API
gRPC
Terraform
GCP
GitHub Actions
Kong
GitLab CI
Azure
CI/CD
Jenkins
AWS
Kubernetes
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≈ $38k – $100k per year (Estimated) · Hybrid · Full-Time · Bengaluru
Go
GCP
OpenTelemetry
Kong
Prometheus
Azure
AWS
Kubernetes
Grafana
Service Mesh
SLI/SLO/SLA
API Gateway
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Salary insights
Compensation ranges based on this company's open jobs
Median
$211k
Typical range
$67k – $400k
Open positions
58
54
Jobs
Junior
5.6%
Middle
9.3%
Senior
55.6%
Staff
25.9%
Architect
3.7%
| Level | Jobs | Median | Typical range |
|---|---|---|---|
| Junior | 3 | $67k | $67k – $70k |
| Middle | 5 | $100k | $88k – $250k |
| Senior | 30 | $260k | $107k – $400k |
| Staff | 14 | $250k | $120k – $400k |
| Architect | 2 | $215k | $210k – $220k |
Highest paying role
Enterprise Account Executive, Southeast
$400k
Normalized to USD per year
All salaries at Kong
By role, level and city, against the market · 58 jobs with pay
Visa sponsorship
9
H-1B filings in 12 months
$203k
Median offered salary
46
Open roles in United States
Who they sponsor
Computer and information systems managers
3
Sales managers
2
Graphic designers
2
In the register as Kong Inc., San Francisco, CA (+2 more)
Other sponsors in the same field
Postman 
Rocket Software 
SmartBear 
Nylas
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US Department of Labor · latest filing Jun 16, 2026 · Visa details by country
A-rated
Sponsor licence
Skilled Worker
Visa route
10
Open roles in United Kingdom
In the register as Kong International (UK) Limited, Cheltenham
Other sponsors in the same field
Ably Realtime 
Microsoft 
Atlassian
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UK Home Office · checked Nov 11, 2026 · Visa details by country
Growth
Hiring Momentum
84/100
Scaling fast
Open positions
106
42 opened / 33 closed in 30 days
Median time-to-fill
44 days
faster than 31% of the market
ATS activity
Every ~5 hours
Today
Hiring Dynamics
+350%
Hiring Focus
The percentage next to each role is its share of the company's job openings over the last 90 days; the arrow shows the shift versus the previous period.
Sales
41% ▲
Solutions
12%
Backend
9% ▲
Product
7%
Marketing
6% ▼
Management
5%
Actively hiring for Sales (+26 in 30 days)
Activity Timeline
Added Windows to stack
Nov 2026
Added Wi-Fi to stack
Nov 2026
Added Service Desk to stack
Nov 2026
Added Room to stack
Nov 2026
Added Microsoft Entra ID to stack
Nov 2026
New location: Sacramento
Nov 2026
New location: Budapest
Nov 2026
New location: United Arab Emirates
Nov 2026
Added Tokenomics to stack
Oct 2026
Added Prompt Engineering to stack
Oct 2026
Added LlamaIndex to stack
Oct 2026
Added TensorFlow to stack
Oct 2026
Tech stack
Technologies named in job postings at Kong over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
Technologies in use
141
Postings analysed
199
Stack modernity
81/100AI adopter
Languages
Go18%
Lua12%
Python11%
Rust9%
Frameworks & libraries
OpenTelemetry4%
Nest.JS2%
LangChain1%
Room1%
Databases
PostgreSQL9%
Redis4%
ClickHouse3%
Snowflake3%
Cloud & platforms
Kubernetes35%
AWS27%
Azure17%
GCP17%
AI & ML
LLM15%
Claude5%
Gemini1%
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Offices
Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
22
Hiring now
22
Countries
13
Busiest office
San Francisco
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San Francisco
United States
HQ
6 open roles 7 posted in 90 days 33% engineering 67% remote 50-200 est. staff $262k Avg Salary
hires for Backend, Product, HR
Milan
Italy
Regional office
9 open roles 8 posted in 90 days 67% engineering 200-500 est. staff $107k Avg Salary
hires for Backend, AI/ML, Sales
Bengaluru
India
Regional office
7 open roles 8 posted in 90 days 43% engineering 200-500 est. staff
hires for Backend, Leadership, Support
Kong Software and Business Services India Private Limited, 7th Floor, Table Space Towers Plot No.6, Devasandra, Industrial Area Mahadevapura, White Field
New York
United States
Remote hub
7 open roles 8 posted in 90 days 86% remote 50-200 est. staff $244k Avg Salary
hires for Product, Legal, Management
London
United Kingdom
Sales office
6 open roles 6 posted in 90 days 17% remote 200-500 est. staff
hires for Sales, Marketing, Solutions
Washington
United States
Regional office
4 open roles 4 posted in 90 days 50% engineering 75% remote 50-200 est. staff $249k Avg Salary
hires for Backend, Management, Sales
Singapore
Singapore
Sales office
3 open roles 3 posted in 90 days 50-200 est. staff
hires for Sales, Management
Shanghai
China
Engineering / R&D
3 open roles 3 posted in 90 days 100% engineering 50-200 est. staff
hires for Backend, AI/ML
Toronto
Canada
Engineering / R&D
3 open roles 1 posted in 90 days 100% engineering 33% remote 50-200 est. staff $134k Avg Salary
hires for Backend, Security
Paris
France
Sales office
3 open roles 2 posted in 90 days 50-200 est. staff
hires for Sales, Solutions
Austin
United States
Sales office
3 open roles 3 posted in 90 days 50-200 est. staff $96k Avg Salary
hires for Sales
Sydney
Australia
2 open roles 2 posted in 90 days 50-200 est. staff
hires for Sales, Solutions
Springfield
United States
2 open roles 3 posted in 90 days 50-200 est. staff $109k Avg Salary
hires for Sales
Mumbai
India
2 open roles 2 posted in 90 days 10-50 est. staff
hires for Marketing, Solutions
Jakarta
Indonesia
2 open roles 10-50 est. staff
hires for Marketing, Sales
Chicago
United States
2 open roles 2 posted in 90 days 50% remote 10-50 est. staff $330k Avg Salary
hires for Legal, Sales
New Delhi
India
2 open roles 2 posted in 90 days 50% remote 10-50 est. staff
hires for Marketing
Budapest
Hungary
2 open roles 2 posted in 90 days 100% engineering 10-50 est. staff
hires for Backend
Sacramento
United States
2 open roles 2 posted in 90 days 10-50 est. staff $181k Avg Salary
hires for Product, Management
Madrid
Spain
1 open roles 1 posted in 90 days 10-50 est. staff
hires for Sales
Atlanta
United States
1 open roles 1 posted in 90 days 10-50 est. staff $400k Avg Salary
hires for Sales
Amsterdam
Netherlands
1 open roles 1 posted in 90 days 10-50 est. staff
hires for Sales
Earlier presence
Pune, India
Trenton, United States
Harrisburg, United States