Techridge Inc.
Job Title: Sr. Kong Middleware Engineer or Kong Lead
Location: Austin, TX
Duration – 6 Month
Contract role.
Role Summary
We are looking for a Sr. Kong Middleware Engineer or Kong Lead with strong hands-on experience around API Services implementation and providing Best Practices solutions in Kong platform.
Key Responsibilities
· Design and implement APIs using Kong Gateway (services, routes, upstreams, plugins).
· Provide best design patterns, security patterns and testing patterns in Kong platform.
· Implement API security patterns including OAuth2/OIDC, JWT, mTLS, rate limiting, and traffic controls.
· Deploy and operate Kong and APIs on AWS (EKS/ECS/EC2, ALB/NLB, IAM, VPC, CloudWatch).
· Implement CI/CD pipelines for Kong configurations services.
· Put guardrails around API deployment to higher environment using best practices in Kong.
· Recommend Kong plugins
· Enable monitoring, logging, and operational support for APIs and gateway components.
· Collaborate with architects, SRE/operations, and security teams in an onsite delivery model.
Required Qualifications
· 8+ years of software development experience with strong API/backend focus.
· 2+ years of Kong API Gateway experience in leading the implementation.
· Native Kong plugin development experience using Lua/OpenResty is a plus.
· Experience integrating with .NET / C# applications with Kong platform.
· Solid understanding of API security, governance, and performance best practices.
· Experience deploying Kong containers and nodes on AWS cloud.
· Experience with Docker, Kubernetes (EKS preferred), Git, and CI/CD pipelines.
To apply for this job email your details to krish@techridge.net