Kong
Jobs, news, and who works there
As of 2026-10-20, Skillenai has indexed 34 Kong job postings over the past 90 days. Kong appeared in 25 news articles in the same window.
Last updated · 90d ending 2026-10-20
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Hiring at Kong
Weekly Kong job postings — last 90 days
Roles Kong is hiring for
| Name | Postings | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Software Engineer | 12 | 35.3% |
| Site Reliability Engineer | 6 | 17.6% |
| Forward Deployed Engineer | 5 | 14.7% |
| Product Manager | 3 | 8.8% |
| Engineering Manager | 2 | 5.9% |
| Product Designer | 2 | 5.9% |
| Professional Services Manager | 1 | 2.9% |
| Software Engineering Manager | 1 | 2.9% |
| Solutions Engineering Specialist | 1 | 2.9% |
| Technical Support Manager | 1 | 2.9% |
Skills in Kong job postings
| Name | Postings | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Kubernetes | 24 | 70.6% |
| API management | 14 | 41.2% |
| CI/CD | 13 | 38.2% |
| AWS | 13 | 38.2% |
| Golang | 12 | 35.3% |
| Distributed systems | 12 | 35.3% |
| Azure | 11 | 32.4% |
| GCP | 11 | 32.4% |
| networking | 11 | 32.4% |
| API gateways | 10 | 29.4% |
| Terraform | 10 | 29.4% |
| service mesh | 9 | 26.5% |
| Python | 8 | 23.5% |
| Linux | 8 | 23.5% |
| Ansible | 8 | 23.5% |
Where Kong is hiring
| Name | Postings | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Milan | 4 | 11.8% |
| San Francisco | 4 | 11.8% |
| Shanghai | 2 | 5.9% |
| Toronto | 2 | 5.9% |
Who works at Kong
From the career profiles Skillenai holds for current staff. Small groups are withheld.
Skills on staff profiles
- JSON22%
- jQuery22%
- React22%
- Java22%
- OAuth222%
- JavaScript22%
- testing11%
- OAuth11%
- extensibility11%
- python11%
- k611%
- Appium11%
- internationalization (i18n)11%
- end to end testing11%
- Lua11%
- OIDC consent settings11%
Share of observed positions at Kong that list the skill.
Schools
- App Academy1
- University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign1
Kong in the news
25 news articles and 123 blog posts mentioned Kong in the last 90 days.
News
- AGNTCon + MCPCon North Americalu.ma · October 22, 2026
- NVIDIA adds Nemotron 3.5 Lightning and NeMo Switchyard to its open-model lineupnews.baeke.info · August 17, 2026
- With Kong Volcano, Kong Hosts the Agents It Governsfuturumgroup.com · October 9, 2026
- How to Automatically Fail Over Between LLM Providers | Kong AI Gatewaysystemsdigest.com · October 5, 2026
- The next Polyfill.io? Inside the netdna-ssl.com takeover and the supply chain risk for thousands of websitesthecybersecguru.com · September 19, 2026
- Cisco ISE Zero-Day: CVE-2026-76460 Bypasses Authentication With a Perfect CVSS 10.0thecybersecguru.com · September 17, 2026
Blogs
- Best API Security Testing Tools in 2026: Top 6 Comparedtestomat.io · October 2, 2026
- Kong Bot Detector for Dedicated Cloud Gatewayskonghq.com · October 7, 2026
- Running Casdoor on Kubernetes: Official Helm Chart and Configuration as Codecasdoor.ai · October 7, 2026
- What Breaks When Agents Become the Customer | Svix CEO Tom Hacohenchainofthought.show · October 14, 2026
- Kong AI Gateway: What It Is, How It Works, and When It Is the Right Callneosalpha.com · October 7, 2026
- Apigee AI Gateway: Governing Models, Tools, and Agents on One Platformneosalpha.com · October 15, 2026
How this was computed
Job counts are postings whose employer resolves to Kong over the 90 days ending 2026-10-20; mentions are news and blog documents that resolve to the same entity. Career-profile aggregates come from the Skillenai talent graph with the same suppression the talent-graph API applies.
- note
- Observed profiles counts the career profiles Skillenai holds at this company, not its employee count.
- source
- Skillenai jobs, news and blog indices; Skillenai career-profile corpus
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