- Location
- Shanghai, China
- Last Published
- Dec. 1, 2024
- Sector
- Data
- Function
- Software Engineering
Are you ready to power the World's connections? 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: This team is responsible for maintaining the core proxy path of the Kong API Gateway product. You need a solid technical background and will work on improving proxy path stability, performance, observability as well as debuggability from top to the very bottom. You will have the opportunity to make sound technical decisions, influence feature design, and ensure timely delivery of objectives.
What you'll do:
- Work on our core proxy stack which is heavily based on Nginx/OpenResty
- Develop new proxy path features such as routing/load balancing/tracing/metrics
- Extend Nginx core to facilitate requirements that are not possible today
- Troubleshoot and profiling performance bottlenecks
- Write automated tests to check the functionality of Gateway
- Design and write performance tests that can demonstrate performance differences between changes/releases
- Collaborate with other team such as the control plane/data team to facilitate end-to-end delivery of new features
- Be active in the Gateway OSS community
What you'll bring:
- 5+ years of experience developing data plane software
- Experience in one of Rust, C, C++
- Experience with low level debugging using GDB/LLDB
- Understanding of process memory usage and troubleshooting techniques
- Understanding of development with Git workflows
- Expertise in test-driven development and automated testing
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
Bonus Points:
- Experience in Nginx/OpenResty/Kong or other L4/L7 proxy software
- Expertise in performance profiling techniques such as perf_events, SystemTap, eBPF
- Experience in writing Lua code
- Experience in JIT compiler, such as LuaJIT/V8
- Experience in OpenTelemetry, Datadog, Dynatrace or other observability frameworks
- Experience developing for SaaS platforms
- Previous contributions to Open Source projects