Software Engineering Intern

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 Kong

Kong was founded by Augusto “Aghi” Marietti and Marco Palladino, who first started a company called Mashape in 2009 while in Milan, Italy. They moved to San Francisco in the early 2010s to pursue their vision of an API marketplace, building Mashape into a platform that powered tens of thousands of APIs and hundreds of thousands of developers. From the API runtime they had built for Mashape, they open‑sourced the Kong API Gateway in 2015, which quickly became the world’s most adopted API gateway and the #1 API project on GitHub.

Over time, Kong evolved from a single open source gateway into a full API management platform that now includes Kong Enterprise Gateway, the Konnect SaaS platform, Kong Insomnia, Kong’s AI Gateway and capabilities, and managed gateways across major public clouds. Kong’s product suites is used by customers in different industries (like finance, banking, eCommerce, airlines, etc.) to build and operate their API infrastructure

India Internship Program

Kong started our office in Bangalore, India in early 2024 and is launching an 8-week internship program in May 2026. We are looking for highly motivated third-year students pursuing a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science who are eager to learn about building high performance software for the API world. We have three teams in Bangalore looking for interns:

1. The Managed Gateways team is responsible for building cloud gateways in AWS, Azure and GCP for our customers. The team offers dedicated cloud gateways as well as serverless gateways.

2. The Observability cloud team is responsible for all things observability within the Konnect SaaS platform. The team builds infrastructure for logs, traces, metrics, and profiles, which are integrated into the KAi agent to help our customers troubleshoot the gateway runtimes.

3. The AI platform team is responsible for the CHI agent of its underpinnings.

What You'll Do

During your internship at Kong, you will be paired with a mentor and a manager who will guide you through an eight-week software engineering project in one of thethree teams listed above. You will start with understanding the problem statement, defining a functional and technical design for your solution, implementing it, and finally, shipping it to production. Along the way, you'll be exposed to modern software engineering practices and work with senior engineers who will mentor you on your way to a full-time role in the industry.

What You'll Bring

• Third-year student in a Bachelor's program in Computer Science or a related field.

• Good software development skills in at least one programming language (Golang preferred).

• Familiarity with data structures and algorithms

• Some experience with at least one of the major cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP) will be a plus.

• Strong verbal and written communication skills to effectively collaborate with team members.

• The ability to get things done!

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.