Job Summary
We are seeking a highly skilled Senior API Gateway engineer & Middleware Administrator with 10+ years of experience to architect, develop, and manage our API gateway and enterprise middleware infrastructure. This role combines strong demonstrated hands-on development expertise in Lua and Python with deep operational knowledge of Kong API Gateway and enterprise middleware platforms.
Job Requirements
As a key member of our Platform Engineering team, you will be responsible for:
•Developing custom Kong plugins using Lua/Python to implement complex business logic, security policies, and integrations
•Administering Kong Gateway infrastructure, ensuring high availability, performance, and scalability
•Managing enterprise middleware platforms including Oracle Fusion, NGINX, and application servers
•Building CI/CD pipelines using Azure DevOps for automated deployment of Kong plugins and middleware components
•Architecting API and integration solutions that power our microservices ecosystem
The ideal candidate is a technical expert who thrives at the intersection of development and operations, possesses strong coding skills in Lua and Python, has proven experience managing enterprise middleware at scale, and brings a DevOps mindset to automate and optimize platform operations.
•Kong Plugin Development
•Strong demonstrated experience in custom Kong plugin development using Lua, Python and Kong PDK
•Strong demonstrated experience in Kong lifecycle management
•Authentication, authorization, transformation, traffic control, and logging plugins
•Plugin testing, debugging, optimization, versioning, and deployment
•Kong Administration
•Kong Gateway installation, configuration, and administration
•Architecture, clustering, HA, and load balancing
•Kong Admin API, and best practices
•Service/route/upstream/consumer/plugin management
•Performance tuning, SSL/TLS management, upgrades, monitoring
•Development
•Strong demonstrated experience in Lua, Python, Kong SDK and Java
•Microservices, async programming (asyncio), and database connectivity
•Message queue integration (RabbitMQ, Kafka), and Azure SDK
•Middleware automation, ETL scripts, and monitoring solutions
•Testing and code quality
•Middleware Administration
App/Web Servers:
•Tomcat/Nginx/IIS/JBoss: Installation, configuration, deployment, tuning, and load balancing
•CI/CD Pipeline Development
•CI/CD pipelines for Kong plugins and middleware
•Automated build/test/deployment, multi-environment strategies
•Quality gates, security scanning, deployment strategies
Education
IC - Typically requires a minimum of 8 years of related experience.Mgr & Exec - Typically requires a minimum of 6 years of related experience.
