# Senior Software Engineer - Kubernetes

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 As a Senior Software Engineer at Kong, you will play a key role in designing, developing, and optimizing our cutting-edge API gateway and cloud-native connectivity solutions. You’ll work on high-performance, scalable software that empowers organizations to manage APIs and microservices efficiently across cloud, on-prem, and hybrid environments. At Kong, we are revolutionizing API connectivity with open-source and enterprise-grade solutions that power some of the world’s most demanding applications. The team’s core products, Kong Gateway Operator and Kong Ingress Controller, enable seamless, secure, and intelligent service connectivity for modern architectures, including Kubernetes, multi-cloud, and service mesh deployments. If you're passionate about distributed systems, cloud-native technologies, and high-performance APIs, we’d love to hear from you! What You’ll Be Doing Design

- **Id**: 4176458
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/kong-senior-software-engineer-kubernetes>
- **Role**: Backend
- **Role family**: Backend
- **Seniority**: senior
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: hybrid
- **Hiring geo confidence**: explicit
- **Locations**: Milan, Italy
- **Countries**: IT
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 5
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-12T13:51:49Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-12
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-12T16:11:44Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 0
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 3689
- **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**: 501-1000
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Ashby

### Truth index

- **Grade**: A
- **Score**: 86
- **Open postings**: 21
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 0.524
- **Repost share**: 0.048
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 44
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-12T10:38:37Z

## Salary

- **Min**: 75000
- **Max**: 85000
- **Currency**: EUR
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 94341

## Technologies

- **API Gateway** — Optional: no
- **AWS** — Optional: no
- **Azure** — Optional: no
- **GCP** — Optional: no
- **Go** — Optional: no
- **Kong** — Optional: no
- **Kubernetes** — Optional: no
- **Service Mesh** — Optional: no

## Trust

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

## Requirements

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

## Hiring locations

- **Italy** — Iso: IT; Kind: country

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-12T16:11:44Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 86
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.86
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 0
- **Expected fill days**: 44
- **Reasons**: conf:1, win:early, comp:brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-12T18:09:11Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 94341
- **Is top pay**: no

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