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Senior Program Manager, Engineering Operations

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

Kong

Employee count: 201-500

Salary: 104k-125k CAD

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Senior Program Manager, Engineering

About the Role

We’re looking for a Senior Program Manager, Engineering to help us scale how we build. As we grow, the complexity of our systems, teams, and processes grows with us. This role is critical to keeping everything running smoothly.

You’ll operate at the center of engineering, product, and business teams, driving alignment, accelerating execution, and ensuring we deliver high-quality software at scale. This is a high-impact role for someone who thrives in fast-paced environments, brings structure to ambiguity, and isn’t afraid to roll up their sleeves.

What You’ll Do

  • Own and drive complex, cross-functional programs that are critical to scaling our engineering organization

  • Identify bottlenecks and inefficiencies, and implement pragmatic, scalable solutions

  • Optimize tools, processes, and workflows to increase Engineering efficiency and reduce friction

  • Define and track key engineering metrics, using data to guide decisions and drive accountability

  • Act as a force multiplier—removing blockers, aligning stakeholders, and keeping teams focused on what matters most

What You’ll Bring

  • 5+ years of experience in Program Management, Technical Program Management, or similar roles in high-growth environments

  • Background in software engineering, ideally within a SaaS company

  • Proven ability to operate effectively in ambiguity and drive clarity across teams

  • Strong systems thinking and a bias for action. You don’t just identify problems, you solve them

  • Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills across technical and non-technical audiences

  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field

About Kong:

Kong Inc., a leading developer of API and AI connectivity technologies, is building the infrastructure that powers the agentic era. Trusted by the Fortune 500 and startups alike, Kong's unified API and AI platform, Kong Konnect, enables organizations to secure, manage, accelerate, govern, and monetize the flow of intelligence across APIs and AI models. For more information, visit www.konghq.com.

Compensation Range: CA$104K - CA$125K

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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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