Software Engineer 2, AI Gateway
Kong · Milan
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- Company
- Kong
- Location
- Milan
- Employment type
- Full-time
- Posted
- October 23, 2026
About this job
You will join the engineering team that builds the Kong AI gateway, empowering companies and developers around the world to govern every step of their AI & LLM based innovation. As a Software Engineer in the AI Gateway Team, you will be working on core features such as multi-LLM routing and balancing, semantic caching and routing, MCP, and more. What You'll Do: - Responsible for building and maintaining API management software for AI and LLMs and its underlying stack. - Implement new innovative features including proxying capabilities, load balancing, databases support that extend Kong AI Gateway’s offering. - Bugs troubleshooting, performance tuning and low-level optimizations. - Fill the gaps between Kong and third-party deployment platforms and tooling.…
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