Senior Software Engineer, Kong Identity

Kong ·

senior

Salary Range (USD)

$145k - $215k

Location

Toronto, Canada

Visa Support

Not mentioned

Funding Stage

Unknown

Job Responsibilities

  • Building low-latency token generation, validation, and introspection services
  • Designing multi-tenant identity systems with strong tenant isolation
  • Implementing OAuth 2.0 and OIDC flows across Kong products
  • Developing dynamic claims engines and authorization capabilities
  • Operating globally distributed authentication services with caching, replication, and edge optimization
  • Building developer-facing APIs and SDKs
  • Improving observability, security, and reliability of critical auth infrastructure

Required Skills

building backend and distributed systems

Engineering Culture & Tech Stack

GoKubernetescloud-native infrastructure

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Kong | Senior Software Engineer, Kong Identity | Toronto, Canada | CA$145K–215K I'm a Staff Engineer on Kong's Identity team. We're hiring a Senior Software Engineer to help build the identity platform behind Konnect. The team owns authentication and authorization services, OAuth 2.0 / OpenID Connect infrastructure, token issuance and validation, client credential management, claims generation, and the APIs that let customers automate identity workflows. Some of the problems we work on: - Building low-latency token generation, validation, and introspection services - Designing multi-tenant identity systems with strong tenant isolation - Implementing OAuth 2.0 and OIDC flows across Kong products - Developing dynamic claims engines and authorization capabilities - Operating globally distributed authentication services with caching, replication, and edge optimization - Building developer-facing APIs and SDKs - Improving observability, security, and reliability of critical auth infrastructure Our stack is primarily Go, Kubernetes, and cloud-native infrastructure. We're looking for engineers with experience building backend and distributed systems. Experience with identity systems, OAuth, OIDC, JWTs, or authentication platforms is helpful but not required. Job posting: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/kong/51d67676-a475-4f1e-a598-85f7ca...

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