Software Engineer, Gateway - Shanghai (Intern)
Role Overview
As a Software Engineer Intern on the Core Team at Kong, you will design and implement innovative features for API management software, focusing on proxying capabilities, load balancing, and database support. This junior-level role involves troubleshooting, performance tuning, and engaging with the open-source community, enabling you to significantly contribute to the evolution of Kong's offerings and support a wide range of use-cases.
Perks & Benefits
This remote internship offers flexibility in work hours, catering to various time zones. Interns can expect a collaborative culture that encourages learning and personal growth, with opportunities to engage with the open-source community. Additionally, the role provides a chance to work with cutting-edge technologies and contribute to impactful projects within a growing company.
Full Job Description
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:
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 Systems Engineer Intern 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 be doing:
Responsible for designing, building and maintaining API management software and its underlying stack.
Design and implement new innovative features including proxying capabilities, load balancing, databases support that extend Kong’s offering.
Bugs troubleshooting, performance tuning and low-level optimizations.
Engage with the open source community and extend Kong core to support the latest industry trends.
Fill the gaps between Kong and third-party deployment platforms and tooling.
And any additional tasks required by the manager.
What you'll bring:
Experience designing, prototyping, building and debugging applications that are highly scalable, distributed, reliable and resilient.
Hands-on low-level technical expertise in Linux systems troubleshooting, and profiling.
Experience in distributed systems, Linux networking stack and computer systems programming, Kong works with APIs on both L7 and L4 transports and protocols, so this expertise and knowledge are required.
Strong sense of ownership and excellent verbal and written communication skills -- engineers at Kong write the documentation for their products
Rust programming experience with solid understanding of async Rust.
Bonus Points:
Hands-on experience with Tokio.
Contributions to Rust open source projects.
Hands-on experience with NGINX/OpenResty/Kong/LuaJIT.
Understanding of inner workings of VM implementations like LuaJIT, eBPF and/or WASM.
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About Kong:
Kong Inc., a leading developer of cloud API technologies, is on a mission to enable companies around the world to become “API-first” and securely accelerate AI adoption. Kong helps organizations globally — from startups to Fortune 500 enterprises — unleash developer productivity, build securely, and accelerate time to market. For more information about Kong, please visit www.konghq.com or follow us on X @thekonginc.
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