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About the role:
On the Konnect Metering & Billing team at Kong, you’ll design, build, and maintain the backend services behind two products: usage metering and billing, and AI Cost Management (Tokenomics), which gives customers visibility and control over what their AI usage costs. As a Backend Engineer, you’ll work closely with Engineering and Product to build scalable services and APIs that process millions of events per second and have a direct, measurable impact on our customers.
What you’ll do:
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Design, implement, and maintain microservices and APIs for usage metering, billing, invoicing, and analytics at scale.
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Build AI Cost Management capabilities that help customers track, attribute, and control LLM token usage and spend, including cost attribution, budgets, and usage limits.
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Architect backend systems that process millions of events per second in real time.
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Work with Product and Engineering to define system requirements and ship high-quality, customer-focused solutions.
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Optimize database performance and ensure data integrity, reliability, and security across distributed systems.
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Integrate with third-party services (e.g., Stripe, CRMs) to support billing and reporting needs.
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Support production services through monitoring, troubleshooting, and on-call rotation to keep them highly available.
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Apply best practices for DevOps, CI/CD, and cloud-native development.
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Write automated tests to validate system behavior and prevent regressions.
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And any additional tasks required by your manager.
What you’ll bring:
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Experience with Go, Node.js.
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Contributions to open source projects.
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Familiarity with cloud-native technologies (e.g., Kubernetes, Docker).
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Exposure to big data systems (e.g., ClickHouse), streaming platforms (e.g., Kafka), and event-driven architectures.
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5+ years of professional software development experience.
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Proven experience building scalable backend services.
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Demonstrated ability to deliver and maintain production systems at scale.
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Solid understanding of distributed systems, APIs, and database optimization.
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Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
Bonus points:
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Familiarity with LLM APIs, token-based pricing, or AI gateway and observability tooling.
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Experience working on developer-focused products.
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Experience working on developer-focused products.
About Kong:
Kong Inc., the AI Connectivity Company, is building the connectivity layer of AI. Trusted by the Fortune 500® and AI-native startups alike, Kong’s unified API and AI platform enables organizations to secure, manage, accelerate, govern, and monetize the flow of intelligence across APIs and AI traffic — on any model, any cloud. For more information, visit www.konghq.com.
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