# Platform Engineering Manager

Are you ready to unlock intelligence? 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. The Mission Kong Cloud Gateways is Kong's foundational cloud-native SaaS platform, powering its managed API and AI Gateway offerings. It provides a multi-tenant control plane, automation, and platform services that let customers securely deploy, operate, and scale dedicated gateway infrastructure with the simplicity of a fully managed cloud service. Behind that experience sits a distributed platform responsible for provisioning, fleet management, software lifecycle, zero-downtime upgrades, observability, security, and multi-region operations across globally distributed cloud infrastructure - built to a target of 99.99% availability, balancing reliability, performance, operational excellence, and infrastructure efficiency at global SaaS scale. As a Software Engineering Manager for Managed Gateways Infrastructure, you will own and grow Kong's Bangalore-based engineering team, taking full account

- **Id**: 4080966
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/kong-platform-engineering-manager>
- **Role**: Leadership
- **Role family**: Leadership
- **Seniority**: lead
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Bengaluru, India
- **Countries**: IN
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-10-27T10:00:43Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-10-27
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-11T17:16:07Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 15
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 6425
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Integration & API Management, Developer Tools

## Company

- **Id**: 4941
- **Name**: Kong
- **Domain**: konghq.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/kong>
- **Size band**: 1001-5000
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Ashby

### Truth index

- **Grade**: A
- **Score**: 86
- **Open postings**: 19
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 0.526
- **Repost share**: 0.053
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 45
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-11T05:49:22Z

## Technologies

- **API Gateway** — Optional: no
- **AWS** — Optional: no
- **Azure** — Optional: no
- **GCP** — Optional: no
- **Go** — Optional: no
- **Grafana** — Optional: no
- **Kong** — Optional: no
- **Kubernetes** — Optional: no
- **OpenTelemetry** — Optional: no
- **Prometheus** — Optional: no
- **Service Mesh** — Optional: no
- **SLI/SLO/SLA** — Optional: no

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 15

## Requirements

- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-11T17:16:07Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 86
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.86
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 15
- **Expected fill days**: 44
- **Reasons**: conf:2, win:early, comp:brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-11T19:32:10Z

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