Staff Cyber Security Engineer

As a Staff Security Engineer, you will serve as the technical security lead for securing the world's most popular API gateway, applying deep expertise in high-performance networking and distributed systems to shape the security posture of the Kong Cloud.

Requirements

• 8+ years' experience in Cybersecurity Engineering, with a focus on high-traffic infrastructure or API management.
• Extensive experience with Kong Gateway, Nginx, eBPF, or similar technologies.
• Cloud-Native & Multi-Cloud: Expert-level knowledge of multi-cloud solution design, specifically securing traffic across disparate cloud providers and Kubernetes environments.
• Security Domain Specialist: Proven track record in designing/deploying WAF, IDS, and IPS systems at scale, with an understanding of signature-based vs. ML-based detection.
• Programming Proficiency: Python, Go or Rust
• Open Source Contributor: Experience contributing to or maintaining open-source security projects is a significant asset.
• Design Excellence: Ability to produce high-quality, high-performance security designs that do not compromise the'millisecond-latency' promise of the gateway.