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Overview
Kong Inc. is a leading cloud-native API management and service connectivity platform provider headquartered in San Francisco, California. Built on the popular open-source Kong Gateway, the company offers enterprise solutions for building, securing, and managing APIs and microservices at scale. Its cloud-first API platform enables developers and organizations to connect legacy applications with modern cloud-native architectures seamlessly across multi-cloud environments.
Technologies
Tech DNA
Go
Lua
Python
OpenTelemetry
Nest.JS
Cypress
PostgreSQL
Redis
ClickHouse
AWS
Azure
GCP
LLM
Claude
Gemini
AI/ML
Python
C++
SQL
Kong
AI Agents
Kubernetes
AWS
Azure
GCP
CI/CD
Terraform
API Gateway
Service Mesh
Nginx
Grafana
Prometheus
Ansible
Datadog
Docker
PostgreSQL
LLM
Model Context Protocol
Envoy
Istio
GitOps
Helm
Redis
GitHub Actions
Jenkins
Platform Engineering
OpenTelemetry
GitHub
ClickHouse
Linkerd
HAProxy
ArgoCD
Atlantis
Terragrunt
Thanos
eBPF
Git
SRE
AIOps
FinOps
Kong AI Gateway
Anomaly Detection
Time Series Forecasting
Pulumi
Self-Healing
Chef
Configuration Management
Puppet
GitLab CI
Chaos Engineering
Shift-Left
GitLab
Claude
Claude Code
Fine-tuning
Synthetic Data
Cassandra
ElasticSearch
Snowflake
Amazon EKS
AWS Lambda
Docker Swarm
Vector
Gateway API
Google GKE
Incident Management
Amazon CloudWatch
Amazon ECS
Amazon S3
IAM
Gemini
Copilot
AWS Bedrock
OpenAI
DynamoDB
Memcached
NATS
OpenSearch
Backend
Node JS
Java
Apache Kafka
Rest API
Nest.JS
gRPC
RabbitMQ
GraphQL
Robotics
Lua
LuaJIT
Kong Gateway
MQTT
OpenResty
Security
Go
Rust
JavaScript
Bash
Zero Trust
GDPR
SOC 2
FedRAMP
Threat Modeling
Okta
OWASP Top 10
Crowdstrike
Shift-Left Security
Auth0
ISO 27001
Keycloak
Tcpdump
QA
TypeScript
Insomnia
Cypress
Playwright
WebDriverIO
Other
Apex
WebAssembly
Salesforce
Storybook
Figma
Confluence
Google Workspace
Jira
Slack
MuleSoft
Tableau
n8n
Zapier
Marketo
Stack modernity
79/100
How modern this stack is, based on technology relevance, AI adoption and the share of legacy tools.
In-demand technologies
Kong
34 jobs
Required
$183k
+26% vs market
AI Agents
34 jobs
Required
$183k
-17% vs market
Go
17 jobs
Required
$173k
-14% vs market
Kubernetes
17 jobs
Required
$167k
-7% vs market
AWS
15 jobs
Required
$162k
-12% vs market
GCP
13 jobs
Required
$167k
-12% vs market
Azure
13 jobs
Required
$167k
Median
CI/CD
12 jobs
Required
$162k
+1% vs market
Salary medians are calculated from this company's open jobs and compared with the market.
Industry adoption
Python
22%
JavaScript
19%
CI/CD
19%
SQL
18%
AWS
17%
TypeScript
16%
Share of companies in the same industry that use each technology.
Stack changes
GitLab
Aug 2026
OpenAI
Aug 2026
Time Series Forecasting
Aug 2026
IAM
Aug 2026
GitHub
Aug 2026
API Gateway
Aug 2026
Amazon S3
Aug 2026
Amazon ECS
Aug 2026
Technologies recently added to or removed from this company's stack - a signal of tech migrations and new initiatives.
Jobgether
Booz Allen Hamilton
CrowdStrike
Devoteam
Emagine
Salesforce
Salary insights
Compensation ranges based on this company's open jobs
Median
$183k
Typical range
$119k – $300k
Open positions
14
14
Jobs
Middle
7.1%
Senior
35.7%
Staff
50%
Architect
7.1%
| Level | Jobs | Median | Typical range |
|---|---|---|---|
| Middle | 1 | $150k | $150k |
| Senior | 5 | $135k | $119k – $218k |
| Staff | 7 | $235k | $173k – $275k |
| Architect | 1 | $300k | $300k |
Highest paying role
Director, Global Scaled CS
$300k
Normalized to USD per year
Growth
Hiring Momentum
72/100
Growing
Open positions
34
4 opened / 23 closed in 30 days
Median time-to-fill
33 days
faster than 41% of the market
ATS activity
Every ~5 hours
Today
Hiring Dynamics
+100%
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.
Backend
44% ▼
DevOps
26% ▲
AI/ML
8% ▼
Management
8% ▲
QA
5%
Support
5%
Actively hiring for Backend (+4 in 30 days)
Activity Timeline
New location: Mumbai
Aug 2026
New location: New Delhi
Aug 2026
New location: Washington
Aug 2026
Added Marketo to stack
Aug 2026
Added Synthetic Data to stack
Aug 2026
Added Shift-Left Security to stack
Aug 2026
Added Shift-Left to stack
Aug 2026
Added Chaos Engineering to stack
Aug 2026
Added Storybook to stack
Aug 2026
Added Figma to stack
Aug 2026
Added FinOps to stack
Aug 2026
Added AIOps to stack
Aug 2026
Jobs
$175k – $235k per year • Remote • Full-Time • 6+ years exp
LLM
AI Agents
Model Context Protocol
DevOps
CI/CD
Kong
Apply
≈ $28k – $67k per year (Estimated) • In office • Full-Time • 10+ years exp • Bachelor's Degree • Mumbai
Apache Kafka
AI/ML
AI Agents
DevOps
AIOps
CI/CD
Docker
FinOps
Git
Kong
Apply
$123k – $150k per year • Remote • Full-Time • Bachelor's Degree • Washington
Bash
Go
Python
Apache Kafka
ClickHouse
PostgreSQL
Redis
AI/ML
AI Agents
Time Series Forecasting
DevOps
ArgoCD
Atlantis
AWS
Azure
CI/CD
Datadog
GCP
GitOps
Grafana
Helm
Kong
Kubernetes
Prometheus
Service Mesh
Terraform
Terragrunt
Thanos
API Gateway
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≈ $20k – $46k per year (Estimated) • In office • Full-Time • 10+ years exp • Bengaluru
Kong AI Gateway
AI Agents
DevOps
Kong
Kubernetes
Marketing
Salesforce
Apply
≈ $130k – $216k per year (Estimated) • Remote • Full-Time
Go
PostgreSQL
Redis
AI/ML
AI Agents
Fine-tuning
LLM
DevOps
AWS
Azure
GCP
Kong
Kubernetes
Apply
$150k – $250k per year • Remote/Hybrid • Full-Time • 8+ years exp • San Francisco
JavaScript
AI Agents
Model Context Protocol
Frontend
Storybook
DevOps
Kong
Design
Figma
Apply
$150k – $275k per year • Remote • Full-Time • 7+ years exp • San Francisco • Washington
Anomaly Detection
AI Agents
DevOps
Kong
Cybersecurity
FedRAMP
GDPR
SOC 2
Threat Modeling
Zero Trust
QA
Insomnia
Apply
≈ $33k – $94k per year (Estimated) • Remote/Hybrid • Full-Time • 10+ years exp • Milan
Lua
Rust
Model Context Protocol
Synthetic Data
AI Agents
DevOps
Chaos Engineering
CI/CD
Docker
GitHub Actions
Kong
Kubernetes
Nginx
Self-Healing
Shift-Left
API Gateway
GitHub
Cybersecurity
Shift-Left Security
Apply
≈ $33k – $72k per year (Estimated) • Remote/Hybrid • Full-Time • Milan
Go
Python
AI Agents
DevOps
Ansible
AWS
Azure
CI/CD
Docker
GCP
GitLab CI
Grafana
Jenkins
Kong
Kubernetes
Prometheus
Terraform
GitLab
Apply
$250k – $300k per year • Remote • Full-Time • 10+ years exp
AI Agents
DevOps
Kong
Apply
$153k – $218k per year • Remote • Full-Time • Washington
Go
AI Agents
DevOps
AWS
Azure
GCP
Grafana
Kong
Kubernetes
OpenTelemetry
Prometheus
Service Mesh
API Gateway
Apply
$85k – $120k per year • Remote • Full-Time • Washington
Go
Cassandra
PostgreSQL
AI/ML
AI Agents
DevOps
Ansible
AWS
Azure
CI/CD
Datadog
GCP
Grafana
Istio
Kong
Kubernetes
Linkerd
Prometheus
Service Mesh
Terraform
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