# Senior Software Engineer, Gateway - Shanghai

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. About the Role: Kong is an open-source project with a global adoption around the world. Developers and architects are adopting Kong in production among a large variety of use-cases, and actively help make Kong a better product with their feedback and contributions. As a Senior Systems Engineer in the Core Team, you will be working on core features such as proxying capabilities, load balancing, and database support with forward-thinking. You will be responsible for building foundations for other teams and customers, discovering and producing cutting edge industry trends and use-cases. What You'll Do: Responsible for designing, building and maintaining API management software and its underlying stack. Architecture, design, and implement new innovative features including proxying capabilities, load balancing, databases support that extend Kong’s offering. Bugs troubleshooting, performance tunin

- **Id**: 4013902
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/kong-senior-software-engineer-gateway-shanghai>
- **Role**: Backend
- **Role family**: Backend
- **Seniority**: senior
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Shanghai, China
- **Countries**: CN
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 5
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-10T09:29:42Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-10
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-10T22:18:52Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 0
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 2878
- **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**: B
- **Score**: 84
- **Open postings**: 17
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 0.588
- **Repost share**: 0.059
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 45
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-10T06:52:35Z

## Technologies

- **Kong** — Optional: no
- **Linux** — Optional: no
- **LLM** — Optional: no
- **AI Agents** — Optional: yes
- **Envoy** — Optional: yes
- **Istio** — Optional: yes
- **Lua** — Optional: yes
- **LuaJIT** — Optional: yes
- **Nginx** — Optional: yes
- **Rust** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 0

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 5
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-10T11:44:10Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 86
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.86
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 0
- **Expected fill days**: 45
- **Reasons**: conf:0, win:early, comp:brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-10T23:04:35Z

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