Destava

Senior Software Engineer, API Gateway - Shanghai

Kong is hiring for Senior Software Engineer, API Gateway - Shanghai in Shanghai, China. Senior level. First seen October 24, 2026; open as of November 12, 2026. Jobs taken straight from company career pages — no aggregator in between.

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Company
Kong
Where
Shanghai, China
Level
Senior
First seen
October 24, 2026
Listed via
Ashby

What the posting says

In this position, you will focus on engineering the core system powering live AI traffic. You will take ownership of the runtime and data plane responsible for routing, translating, securing, and analyzing every request, ensuring performance, security, and scalability as AI workloads expand. What You'll Do: - Responsible for designing, building, and maintaining Kong's AI Gateway runtime and its underlying data plane stack. - Architect, design, and implement new innovative features, including proxying capabilities, semantic/intelligent routing, load balancing, guardrails and compression, and…

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