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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.\nAbout The Role:\nKong is building Project Volcano, an internal developer platform purpose-built for Kong's engineering ecosystem. Volcano will provide teams with on-demand preview environments, edge deployments, managed PostgreSQL, auth, realtime, and storage APIs all deeply integrated with Kong products.\nAs the Senior SRE for Volcano, you will be the reliability voice for this platform. This role is a strategic initiative driven by the Office of the CTO (OCTO). You will partner directly with engineering leadership to define the platform's reliability posture. This is a high-visibility, high-impact role with direct influence on Kong's next generation developer platform.\nWhat You'll Do:\nOwn reliability for Volcano end-to-end: Define and drive SLOs, error budgets, and incident response practices for all Volcano services - edge deployments, managed Postgres, auth, realtime, storage, and the control plane.\n\nContribute to the platform's infrastructure: Design and build the multi-region Kubernetes infrastructure, networking, and data plane that powers Volcano's edge deployment pipeline and backend-as-a-service capabilities.\n\nBuild the GitOps and CI/CD backbone: Establish deployment automation, canary pipelines, and preview environment provisioning using ArgoCD, Helm, and Terraform/Terragrunt - setting patterns the broader team will follow.\n\nScale managed data services: Design, operate, and harden multi-tenant PostgreSQL clusters, Redis caching layers, and object storage - with a focus on data isolation, performance, and disaster recovery.\n\nDrive observability from day one: Instrument every Volcano service with meaningful SLIs; build dashboards, alerts, and runbooks using Datadog, Prometheus, and Grafana before services go live, not after incidents.\n\nLead cross-functional reliability work: Collaborate with the OCTO team, product engineering, and security to bake reliability and compliance into Volcano's architecture - not bolt it on later.\n\nEvaluate and adopt emerging technologies: Given Volcano's greenfield nature, evaluate and make architectural decisions on edge runtimes, serverless compute, vector databases, and AI-native infrastructure components.\n\nWhat You'll Bring:\nBS in Computer Science or equivalent; substantial experience at Staff or Principal IC level in SRE/Platform Engineering.\n\nProven track record building SRE or platform engineering practices for developer-facing platforms or PaaS/SaaS products - ideally at greenfield stage.\n\nKubernetes expertise: multi-tenant cluster design, networking (CNI, service mesh, ingress), autoscaling, and security hardening.\n\nAbout Kong:\nKong Inc., the AI Connectivity Company, is building the connectivity layer of AI. Trusted by the Fortune 500® and AI-native startups alike, Kong’s unified API and AI platform enables organizations to secure, manage, accelerate, govern, and monetize the flow of intelligence across APIs and AI traffic - on any model, any cloud. 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