# Kong - **Answer**: Kong builds mostly with Go, Lua, Python, Rust. Its stack also includes Kubernetes, AWS, PostgreSQL, Redis. Kubernetes is named in 71 of the 204 job postings Kong published in the last 12 months (35%). Counted by Alion from the job postings of Kong, updated Nov 12, 2026. - **Window days**: 365 - **Postings analysed**: 204 - **Open postings**: 110 - **Technologies in use**: 141 - **Modernity score**: 81 - **Ai adoption**: yes - **Own products**: Kong, Kong Gateway, Kong AI Gateway - **License**: CC BY-SA 4.0 ## Company - **Id**: 4941 - **Name**: Kong - **Domain**: konghq.com - **Url**: ## Technologies - **Kubernetes** — Layer: cloud; Postings: 71; Share: 0.348; Required: 61; Open postings: 33; First seen: 2025-11-05 - **AWS** — Layer: cloud; Postings: 55; Share: 0.2696; Required: 42; Open postings: 26; First seen: 2025-11-05 - **CI/CD** — Layer: practices; Postings: 44; Share: 0.2157; Required: 42; Open postings: 17; First seen: 2025-11-05 - **Go** — Layer: languages; Postings: 36; Share: 0.1765; Required: 36; Open postings: 18; First seen: 2025-11-05 - **AI Agents** — Layer: practices; Postings: 36; Share: 0.1765; Required: 34; Open postings: 15; First seen: 2026-05-06 - **Azure** — Layer: cloud; Postings: 35; Share: 0.1716; Required: 30; Open postings: 16; First seen: 2025-11-05 - **GCP** — Layer: cloud; Postings: 35; Share: 0.1716; Required: 30; Open postings: 16; First seen: 2025-11-05 - **Docker** — Layer: tools; Postings: 34; Share: 0.1667; Required: 27; Open postings: 17; First seen: 2026-01-22 - **API Gateway** — Layer: cloud; Postings: 34; Share: 0.1667; Required: 26; Open postings: 16; First seen: 2025-11-05 - **Linux** — Layer: cloud; Postings: 32; Share: 0.1569; Required: 24; Open postings: 15; First seen: 2025-11-05 - **Service Mesh** — Layer: practices; Postings: 31; Share: 0.152; Required: 18; Open postings: 17; First seen: 2025-11-05 - **LLM** — Layer: ai; Postings: 30; Share: 0.1471; Required: 29; Open postings: 18; First seen: 2026-06-03 - **Lua** — Layer: languages; Postings: 24; Share: 0.1176; Required: 9; Open postings: 12; First seen: 2026-01-28 - **Nginx** — Layer: tools; Postings: 24; Share: 0.1176; Required: 4; Open postings: 15; First seen: 2026-01-28 - **Model Context Protocol** — Layer: tools; Postings: 23; Share: 0.1127; Required: 23; Open postings: 13; First seen: 2026-06-09 - **Python** — Layer: languages; Postings: 22; Share: 0.1078; Required: 18; Open postings: 7; First seen: 2025-11-05 - **Terraform** — Layer: tools; Postings: 20; Share: 0.098; Required: 14; Open postings: 6; First seen: 2025-11-05 - **Grafana** — Layer: cloud; Postings: 18; Share: 0.0882; Required: 11; Open postings: 6; First seen: 2025-11-05 - **Prometheus** — Layer: tools; Postings: 18; Share: 0.0882; Required: 11; Open postings: 6; First seen: 2025-11-05 - **PostgreSQL** — Layer: data; Postings: 18; Share: 0.0882; Required: 10; Open postings: 9; First seen: 2025-11-05 - **Rust** — Layer: languages; Postings: 17; Share: 0.0833; Required: 8; Open postings: 6; First seen: 2026-01-28 - **Datadog** — Layer: cloud; Postings: 16; Share: 0.0784; Required: 8; Open postings: 4; First seen: 2025-11-05 - **Platform Engineering** — Layer: practices; Postings: 15; Share: 0.0735; Required: 14; Open postings: 6; First seen: 2026-01-22 - **LLM Guardrails** — Layer: practices; Postings: 14; Share: 0.0686; Required: 14; Open postings: 9; First seen: 2026-06-09 - **Apache Kafka** — Layer: cloud; Postings: 14; Share: 0.0686; Required: 12; Open postings: 5; First seen: 2025-11-05 - **JavaScript** — Layer: languages; Postings: 14; Share: 0.0686; Required: 10; Open postings: 4; First seen: 2026-01-07 - **GitHub** — Layer: cloud; Postings: 13; Share: 0.0637; Required: 13; Open postings: 2; First seen: 2026-01-22 - **Claude Code** — Layer: tools; Postings: 13; Share: 0.0637; Required: 10; Open postings: 6; First seen: 2026-06-09 - **Rest API** — Layer: tools; Postings: 12; Share: 0.0588; Required: 12; Open postings: 8; First seen: 2026-01-22 - **Istio** — Layer: cloud; Postings: 12; Share: 0.0588; Required: 0; Open postings: 6; First seen: 2026-06-17 - **LuaJIT** — Layer: tools; Postings: 12; Share: 0.0588; Required: 0; Open postings: 6; First seen: 2026-01-28 - **Envoy** — Layer: tools; Postings: 11; Share: 0.0539; Required: 2; Open postings: 7; First seen: 2026-03-02 - **Claude** — Layer: ai; Postings: 10; Share: 0.049; Required: 7; Open postings: 3; First seen: 2026-06-11 - **GitHub Actions** — Layer: cloud; Postings: 9; Share: 0.0441; Required: 9; Open postings: 3; First seen: 2026-01-22 - **OpenAI Codex** — Layer: tools; Postings: 9; Share: 0.0441; Required: 9; Open postings: 4; First seen: 2026-06-09 - **Jenkins** — Layer: tools; Postings: 9; Share: 0.0441; Required: 8; Open postings: 3; First seen: 2026-01-22 - **Docker Swarm** — Layer: cloud; Postings: 9; Share: 0.0441; Required: 1; Open postings: 6; First seen: 2026-06-03 - **Ansible** — Layer: tools; Postings: 8; Share: 0.0392; Required: 8; Open postings: 2; First seen: 2026-01-07 - **Copilot** — Layer: tools; Postings: 8; Share: 0.0392; Required: 8; Open postings: 4; First seen: 2026-06-09 - **Git** — Layer: tools; Postings: 8; Share: 0.0392; Required: 8; Open postings: 3; First seen: 2026-05-21 - **GitOps** — Layer: practices; Postings: 8; Share: 0.0392; Required: 8; Open postings: 2; First seen: 2025-11-05 - **GraphQL** — Layer: tools; Postings: 8; Share: 0.0392; Required: 8; Open postings: 4; First seen: 2026-06-09 - **Helm** — Layer: tools; Postings: 8; Share: 0.0392; Required: 8; Open postings: 2; First seen: 2025-11-05 - **Redis** — Layer: data; Postings: 8; Share: 0.0392; Required: 5; Open postings: 1; First seen: 2025-11-05 - **OpenTelemetry** — Layer: frameworks; Postings: 8; Share: 0.0392; Required: 4; Open postings: 5; First seen: 2026-01-22 - **DNS** — Layer: practices; Postings: 7; Share: 0.0343; Required: 6; Open postings: 4; First seen: 2025-11-05 - **SLI/SLO/SLA** — Layer: practices; Postings: 6; Share: 0.0294; Required: 6; Open postings: 5; First seen: 2026-07-23 - **gRPC** — Layer: tools; Postings: 6; Share: 0.0294; Required: 6; Open postings: 2; First seen: 2026-06-03 - **Tableau** — Layer: cloud; Postings: 6; Share: 0.0294; Required: 5; Open postings: 3; First seen: 2026-06-16 - **ClickHouse** — Layer: data; Postings: 6; Share: 0.0294; Required: 4; Open postings: 4; First seen: 2025-11-05 - … 91 more in the JSON form ## Changes ### First appeared - **Tokenomics** — First seen: 2026-10-26 - **LangChain** — First seen: 2026-10-26 - **A2A** — First seen: 2026-09-17 - **TCP/IP** — First seen: 2026-08-12 - **OpenAI** — First seen: 2026-07-24 - **SLI/SLO/SLA** — First seen: 2026-07-23 - **IAM** — First seen: 2026-07-21 - **Auth0** — First seen: 2026-07-21 ### Rising - **LLM Guardrails** — Share from: 5; Share to: 8 ### Falling - **Kubernetes** — Share from: 45; Share to: 29 - **AWS** — Share from: 35; Share to: 21 - **Docker** — Share from: 27; Share to: 13 - **Go** — Share from: 25; Share to: 12 - **Grafana** — Share from: 18; Share to: 5 - **Prometheus** — Share from: 18; Share to: 5 - **Datadog** — Share from: 17; Share to: 4 - **CI/CD** — Share from: 30; Share to: 18 ## Similar stacks - [Netskope](https://alion.io/company/netskope/technologies) — Shared technologies: 96 - [Mirantis](https://alion.io/company/mirantis/technologies) — Shared technologies: 100 - [Kaseya](https://alion.io/company/kaseya/technologies) — Shared technologies: 101 - [Elastic](https://alion.io/company/elastic/technologies) — Shared technologies: 98 - [Check Point Software Technologies](https://alion.io/company/check-point-software-technologies/technologies) — Shared technologies: 100 - [Okta](https://alion.io/company/okta/technologies) — Shared technologies: 119 - [Nasdaq](https://alion.io/company/nasdaq/technologies) — Shared technologies: 95 - [SailPoint](https://alion.io/company/sailpoint/technologies) — Shared technologies: 102 --- [Page](https://alion.io/company/kong/technologies) · [JSON](https://alion.io/company/kong/technologies.json) Source: Alion (alion.io), 2026-11-12. 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