KongKO

Engineering Manager - Kubernetes

Speed up time to market by unleashing developer productivity, automating security, and streamlining API management.

Kong

Employee count: 201-500

Poland only
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About the role:
You will be the leader of the Kong Kubernetes team. This team is responsible for delivering the enterprise and open-source versions of both Kong Ingress Controller and Kong Gateway Operator.
As an Engineering Manager, you'll lead and grow a distributed team and be responsible for providing technical leadership to key projects, and empowering and developing the team members to do the same.
You and your team will build, and continuously improve the Kong Kubernetes offering.
Kong creates software and managed services that connect APIs and microservices natively across and within clouds, Kubernetes, data centers and more using intelligent automation. Built on an open source core, Kong’s service connectivity platform enables digital innovation by allowing organizations to reliably and securely manage the full lifecycle of APIs and services for modern architectures, including microservices, serverless and service mesh. By providing developer teams with unprecedented architectural freedom, Kong accelerates innovation cycles, increases productivity, and seamlessly bridges legacy and modern systems and applications. For more information about Kong, please visit konghq.com or follow @thekonginc on Twitter.

What you’ll be doing:

  • Building software and systems to manage infrastructure and customer-facing applications on Kubernetes.
  • Managing through uncertainty and partnering closely with development teams to design, build, deploy, support, and monitor new and existing Kong cloud services.
  • Measuring and optimizing service performance and change management
  • Manage releases.
  • Hire, mentor and maintain healthy engineers who value collaboration and innovation.
  • Work closely with the rest of the product engineering team to deliver novel software solutions to customer problems.
  • Work closely with the Gateway team to integrate Kong’s newest features and improvements into the ingress controller and controller.
  • Give constructive feedback to Engineers, conduct 1:1’s, perform performance reviews and strive for continuous improvement.
  • Suggest guidelines, principles and processes to improve the Engineering org.
  • Assure high quality work.

What you’ll bring:

  • Over all 10+ years of Industry experience.
  • 2+ years of Eng management experience.
  • Proven hands on experience with Kubernetes.
  • Knowledge of GatewayAPI and the wider Kubernetes ecosystem
  • Experience managing remote teams, doing reviews, hiring, comp.
  • Experience with Docker, Go, AWS,GCP, Azure.

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Jul 27, 2024

Posted on

May 28, 2024

Job type

Full Time

Experience level

Manager

Location requirements

Hiring timezones

Poland +/- 0 hours

About Kong

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Speed up time to market by unleashing developer productivity, automating security, and streamlining API management.

Kong powers the API world

Kong provides the foundation that enables any company to become an API-first company — speeding up time to market, creating new business opportunities, and delivering superior products and services.

Built on the world’s most adopted API gateway, Kong’s unified cloud API platform delivers fast, reliable, secure digital experiences. With Kong, organizations can increase developer productivity, security, and performance at scale with a single easy-to-use platform for API management, service mesh, and ingress controller.

We put customers at the heart of everything we do. That’s why everyone from e-commerce startups to the world’s leading biotech companies trust Kong to run mission-critical applications.

We embody open source and everything it stands for. We foster a culture of individualism — encouraging our people to bring new ideas and innovations, regardless of level and function.

How we do it

We’re passionate about solving the challenges that will fundamentally shape the future of tech. If you believe in taking ownership of your work, making an impact, and having fun along the way, come join us!

Global: Be Inclusive. We work together from anywhere to achieve our common goals. Our differences make us stronger.

Real: Be Authentic. We are genuine, pricipled and confident without arrogance. Show respect and kindness, especially in tough moments.

Unstoppable: Be Relentlessly Resourceful. We work with purpose, obsession and grit. It takes muscle to do hard things and doing hard things builds muscle.

Champions: Be Customer Obsessed. We care. Customers are everything, we put them at the center of everything you do. We are all empowered to make an impact.

Explorers: Be Curious. We value ideas over hierarchy. Never accept the status quo. We make bold bets, fail, and learn everyday. There is always a way.

Own It: Be an owner. We are drivers not passengers and own the quality and outcomes of our work.

Employee benefits

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Unplug Days

Kong encourages taking well-deserved long weekends where the entire team unplugs to rest and recharge.

Equity Participation

Kongers are offered stock options to share in the success of the company, aligning employee and company growth.

Virtual Team Events

Kong hosts virtual events, donut chats, trivia, and fitness challenges to keep team members connected and engaged.

Office Stipend

Kong offers an office stipend to help employees build a home office environment tailored to support their productivity.

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