KONG APIM ENGINEER
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This role is for a KONG APIM Engineer on a contract basis in Seattle, WA. Requires 5-8 years in APIM management, KONG expertise, Kubernetes, AWS, Redis, and observability tools like Datadog and Splunk. Hybrid work model.
🌎 - Country
United States
💱 - Currency
$ USD
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💰 - Day rate
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🗓️ - Date discovered
September 20, 2025
🕒 - Project duration
Unknown
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🏝️ - Location type
Hybrid
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📄 - Contract type
Unknown
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🔒 - Security clearance
Unknown
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📍 - Location detailed
Seattle, WA
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🧠 - Skills detailed
#AWS (Amazon Web Services) #Splunk #Redis #Datadog #Scala #Kubernetes #SaaS (Software as a Service) #API (Application Programming Interface) #Observability
Role description
Role: KONG APIM ENGINEER
Location: Seattle, WA- Hybrid
Type: Contract role
Interview: Video Interview
Required skills:
• 5-8 years experience in APIM management tools with a specialization in KONG
• Deep expertise in managing and optimizing API gateways, specifically KONG, and play a key role in implementing, configuring, and maintaining API management solutions for our organization.
• Performance, reliability, and scalability of KONG API Gateway, while also driving integration with other systems and troubleshooting any issues that arise.
• Experience with Kubernetes, Redis cache and any other AWS infra components needed to support Kong in AWS.
• Create scalable, optimized and secure Kubernetes-based infrastructure. Experience to apply kong patches to Kubernetes cluster
• Experience with Observability tool (OTEL framework) with deep skills in Datadog and Splunk for metrics and logs respectively.
• LUA Experience and ideally experience in writing with writing Kong plugins in LUA.
• Experience in migrating APIM platforms (add color)
• Experience working in SaaS environment and enabling application teams to aid with API adoption and onboarding.
Role: KONG APIM ENGINEER
Location: Seattle, WA- Hybrid
Type: Contract role
Interview: Video Interview
Required skills:
• 5-8 years experience in APIM management tools with a specialization in KONG
• Deep expertise in managing and optimizing API gateways, specifically KONG, and play a key role in implementing, configuring, and maintaining API management solutions for our organization.
• Performance, reliability, and scalability of KONG API Gateway, while also driving integration with other systems and troubleshooting any issues that arise.
• Experience with Kubernetes, Redis cache and any other AWS infra components needed to support Kong in AWS.
• Create scalable, optimized and secure Kubernetes-based infrastructure. Experience to apply kong patches to Kubernetes cluster
• Experience with Observability tool (OTEL framework) with deep skills in Datadog and Splunk for metrics and logs respectively.
• LUA Experience and ideally experience in writing with writing Kong plugins in LUA.
• Experience in migrating APIM platforms (add color)
• Experience working in SaaS environment and enabling application teams to aid with API adoption and onboarding.
