Kong AI Gateway Engineer
- Remote, United States
- Lead
- Posted 7 days ago
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Kong AI Gateway Engineer is a lead remote role in the United States at an insurance company.
About the role
The work covers API gateway management, Kong administration and proxying traffic to large language models. Applications are owned through production and measured against performance goals.
At a glance
- Pay
- Not stated in the posting
- Remote scope
- Remote, United States
- Seniority
- Lead
- Working hours
- Central or Eastern Time hours
- Skills
- Kong Gateway, Kong Konnect, REST APIs, GraphQL, OAuth2, Kubernetes, Docker, Helm
- Posted
- 28 Oct 2026
- Last checked
- 2 Nov 2026
What you will do
- Design and run enterprise AI gateway solutions on Kong, with policies for prompts, filtering, tokens and guardrails
- Give teams secure access to several LLM providers through one gateway, with routing by latency, cost and availability
- Set up AI observability, token analytics and cost governance, and integrate RAG services through managed APIs
- Administer Kong Gateway, deploy it on Kubernetes and automate operations with DevOps tooling
What they look for
- 8 or more years in API management, middleware or platform engineering
- Hands-on Kong Gateway and Konnect, REST and GraphQL APIs, OAuth2, JWT and OIDC
- Kubernetes, Docker and Helm, plus CI/CD with Jenkins, GitHub Actions or Azure DevOps
- Monitoring with Prometheus, Grafana, ELK or Splunk, on Azure, AWS or GCP
- Able to work Central or Eastern Time hours
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The posting lists it as remote for people in the United States. On hours, the posting says: Central or Eastern Time hours.
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What experience is needed?
It is a lead role. The posting asks for: 8 or more years in API management, middleware or platform engineering; hands-on Kong Gateway and Konnect, REST and GraphQL APIs, OAuth2, JWT and OIDC; kubernetes, Docker and Helm, plus CI/CD with Jenkins, GitHub Actions or Azure DevOps. Skills it names include Kong Gateway, Kong Konnect, REST APIs, GraphQL.
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