Kong
Jobs, news, and who works there
As of 2026-09-29, Skillenai has indexed 47 Kong job postings over the past 90 days. Kong appeared in 25 news articles in the same window.
Last updated · 90d ending 2026-09-29
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Hiring at Kong
Weekly Kong job postings — last 90 days
Roles Kong is hiring for
| Name | Postings | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Software Engineer | 17 | 36.2% |
| Site Reliability Engineer | 10 | 21.3% |
| Forward Deployed Engineer | 6 | 12.8% |
| Product Manager | 3 | 6.4% |
| AI Enablement Specialist | 2 | 4.3% |
| Product Designer | 2 | 4.3% |
| Curriculum Developer | 1 | 2.1% |
| Engineering Manager | 1 | 2.1% |
| Frontend Engineer | 1 | 2.1% |
| Software Engineer in Test | 1 | 2.1% |
Skills in Kong job postings
| Name | Postings | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Kubernetes | 30 | 63.8% |
| API management | 19 | 40.4% |
| CI/CD | 16 | 34.0% |
| Golang | 16 | 34.0% |
| Terraform | 15 | 31.9% |
| AWS | 14 | 29.8% |
| Distributed systems | 14 | 29.8% |
| Azure | 12 | 25.5% |
| GCP | 12 | 25.5% |
| Python | 11 | 23.4% |
| Linux | 11 | 23.4% |
| networking | 11 | 23.4% |
| PostgreSQL | 10 | 21.3% |
| Docker | 10 | 21.3% |
| API gateways | 10 | 21.3% |
Where Kong is hiring
| Name | Postings | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Milan | 7 | 14.9% |
| San Francisco | 6 | 12.8% |
| Toronto | 5 | 10.6% |
| Shanghai | 3 | 6.4% |
| Singapore | 2 | 4.3% |
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
- Coding Dojo1
- App Academy1
- University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign1
Kong in the news
25 news articles and 116 blog posts mentioned Kong in the last 90 days.
News
- 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
- Postman Alternativen im Test: Insomnia vs. Hoppscotchmad-summit.de · April 16, 2025
- Debugging Intermittent Kong 503s When the Logs Showed Nothing but the Status Codehackernoon.com · September 16, 2026
- Marino Wijay — Staff Solutions Architect at Kongrootly.com · April 17, 2025
- Kong AI Gateway 2.0 Goes GA With MCP Bundling, Identity Policies and Multimodal Cost Controlsaicybr.com · September 1, 2026
Blogs
- AI Governance Tools and Platforms: An Enterprise Guidekonghq.com · September 23, 2026
- Announcing Kong Operator 2.3konghq.com · September 25, 2026
- Kong Answered The Two Front Doors Post With A Door For Agentsapievangelist.com · September 24, 2026
- The “We Are All In On Agentic” Shame Gameapievangelist.com · September 25, 2026
- How API Gateways Support WebSocketapi7.ai · April 23, 2025
- Traefik vs Kong vs APISIX: A Reproducible API Gateway Benchmark Methodapi7.ai · September 11, 2026
How this was computed
Job counts are postings whose employer resolves to Kong over the 90 days ending 2026-09-29; 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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