# Software Engineer, AI Gateway Source: https://realanalystjobs.com/job/software-engineer-ai-gateway-kong-e91df7ce Software Engineer, AI Gateway at Kong, an on-site role based in Milan, Italy. Experience level: 3+ Years. Pay stated in the posting: €63,750 to €78,750. Posted on 23 October 2026, read from Kong's own careers page (Ashby), which RealAnalystJobs re-checks daily and removes the role when it closes. Updated 15 November 2026. ## Key facts - Company: [Kong](https://realanalystjobs.com/companies/kong) - Location: Milan, Italy - Work mode: On-site - Pay stated in the posting: €63,750 to €78,750 - Posted: Oct 23, 2026 - Employment type: Full time - Experience level: 3+ Years - Source: Kong's careers page (Ashby), re-checked daily ## About this role Are you ready to unlock intelligence? If you don’t think you meet all of the criteria below but are still interested in the job, please apply. Nobody checks every box - we’re looking for candidates that are particularly strong in a few areas, and have some interest and capabilities in others. About the Role: 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. • Any additional tasks required by manager. What You'll Bring: • 3+ years of programming in server-side applications and components. • Hands on experience with either Golang or Rust • Experience building and debugging applications that are highly scalable, distributed, reliable and resilient. • Solid hands-on low-level technical expertise in Linux systems troubleshooting, and profiling. • Experience in distributed systems, Linux networking stack and computer systems programming, Kong works with APIs on both L7 and L4 transports and protocols, so this expertise and knowledge are required. • Comfortable working with a remotely distributed team. • Strong sense of ownership and excellent verbal and written communication skills -- engineers at Kong write the documentation for their products • Familiarity with AI LLM concepts and applications development Bonus Points: • Hands on experience with NGINX/OpenResty/Kong/LuaJIT. • Hands on experience with Envoy or Istio. \#LI-EA1 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 . Description from Kong's public careers feed, reproduced so you can read the role here. Apply on the company's own site; Real Analyst Jobs never submits anything for you. ## How to apply Open [this role on Real Analyst Jobs](https://realanalystjobs.com/job/software-engineer-ai-gateway-kong-e91df7ce) and use Apply now there to reach the employer's application. The listing is re-checked against Kong's careers page daily and removed when it closes. ## Kong 1 open analyst role on Real Analyst Jobs. [More roles at Kong](https://realanalystjobs.com/companies/kong) ## More like this ### Other open roles at Kong - [Senior Marketing Operations Analyst - India](https://realanalystjobs.com/job/senior-marketing-operations-analyst-india-kong-4b8fb18e), Bengaluru, India (On-site) - [Analyst job market report](https://realanalystjobs.com/analyst-job-market) - [What analyst roles pay](https://realanalystjobs.com/blog/data-analyst-salaries) ## Sources and links - [This role on Real Analyst Jobs](https://realanalystjobs.com/job/software-engineer-ai-gateway-kong-e91df7ce) - [Kong on Real Analyst Jobs](https://realanalystjobs.com/companies/kong) - [All analyst jobs](https://realanalystjobs.com/jobs)