Software Engineering Manager, Kong
Insomnia
$165-185.7k
Microservice API gateway
Open for applications
Microservice API gateway
501-1000 employees
Open for applications
$165-185.7k
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To build the nervous system that will safely and reliably connect all of humankind!
Role
Who you are
- 2+ years of Eng management experience
- Experience managing remote teams
- Experience doing reviews, hiring, comp
- Demonstrated leadership of Engineering teams
- Proven customer relationship skill sets (internal and external customers)
- On-premise, cloud, and hybrid product background
- Experience working on an infrastructure product line
- Strong proficiency for testing and an absolute distaste for unscalable code
- At least 4 years of experience working with relational databases like PostgreSQL
- At least 2 years of experience working with cloud infrastructure (like AWS, Azure or GCP)
- Strong understanding of networking protocols and transports (HTTP, GraphQL, TCP, WebSockets, SSE)
- The ability to validate your work with qualitative or quantitative data
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
What the job involves
- You will be a leader of the Insomnia engineering team
- This team is responsible for the Open Source and Enterprise version's of Insomnia, the foundational technology for our product offerings
- As a Software Engineering Manager, you will be responsible for leading, coaching, and mentoring the team on new features and tooling for Insomnia to supporting our customers world-wide
- Insomnia is a popular API development platform that includes an API client, API designer, API testing and more, that millions of developers around the world use to build digital products across both Top Global 2000 organizations, and individual developers at smaller organizations
- Work with product managers, engineers and product designers to create meaningful product experiences
- Build new features and improve upon existing ones
- Engage with the Insomnia open source community
- Hire, mentor, and maintain healthy Engineering teams who value collaboration and innovation
- Manage shift scheduling, measuring key performance indicators (KPIs), and training, assure high-quality work and SLA
- Solid technical expertise for Linux systems troubleshooting, and profiling, experience with debugging tools and complex SaaS applications
- Leadership experience displaying the ability to organize and prioritize complex problem resolution and bug fixes, debugging distributed services
- Organize and manage your teams to fit constructively into the org as a whole and help the company succeed
- Set and manage expectations with other engineering teams, senior management, and external stakeholders
- Give constructive feedback to Engineers, conduct 1:1’s, address interpersonal issues, and conduct reviews
- Suggest Engineering guidelines, principles, and processes to improve the Engineering org
- Assure high-quality work and SLA adherence from the entire Engineering org
Our take
Kong provides a cutting-edge API and service lifecycle management platform tailored for modern architectures, such as microservices, containers, cloud, and serverless environments. With a focus on flexibility, scalability, speed, and performance, Kong allows developers and Global 5000 enterprises to securely connect and orchestrate microservice APIs for today's sophisticated applications.
The core products offered by Kong include Kong, an open-source API and Microservices management solution Galileo, a platform for API analytics and debugging; Gelato, a platform for creating developed portals for PIs and Microservices; and API Marketplace, a hub for discovering and publishing cloud APIs. Additionally, the recent introduction of a new collection of AI plug-ins in Kong Gateway 3.6 enhances the platform's capabilities further, reinforcing its commitment to innovation and advancement.
In pursuit of growth, the company is prioritizing expanding its marketing efforts, bolstering its customer service team, and accelerating product development. By focusing on these key areas, Kong aims to continue providing unparalleled solutions and support to its ever-expanding user base in the rapidly evolving landscape of modern application development.
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back within 2 weeks
23% female employees
2% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 6 rounds)
Feb 2021
$100m
SERIES D
Mar 2019
$43m
SERIES C
Total funding: $169.1m
Company benefits
- Flexible time off: Take time to take care of yourself and the things that matter most
- Stock options: We want you to share in our success. That's why stock options are offered to most Kongers
- U-First Fridays: Get 4 hours a month for continuous learning with a book, podcast, or course of your choice
- Virtual events: Stay connected with Donut chats, trivia, fitness challenges, guided meditations, and more
- Dedicated unplug days: Silence those notifications. Enjoy some well-deserved long weekend where the entire team unplugs
- Home office stipend: Build a home office environment tailored to support your productivity
Company values
- Global: Be inclusive. We work together from anywhere to achieve our common goals. Our differences make us stronger
- Real: Be authentic. We are genuine, principled and confident without arrogance. Show respect and kindness, especially in tough moments
- Unstoppable: Be relentlessly resourceful. We work with purpose, obsession and grit. It takes muscle to do hard things and doing hard things build muscle
- Champions: Be customer obsessed. We care. Customers are everything, we put them at the center of everything you do. We are all empowered to make an impact
- Explorers: Be curious. We value ideas over hierarchy. Never accept the status quo. We make bold bets, fail, and learn everyday. There is always a way
- Own it: Be an owner. We are drivers not passengers and own the quality and outcomes of our work
Company HQ
The East Cut, San Francisco, CA
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Founders
Augusto Marietti
(CEO)Previously founded Mashape API Marketplace. Before Mashape, Augusto was an SF homeless immigrant from Italy.
Janet Phillips
(Vice President of People)Previously Director at SonicWALL for 5 years and Senior Director at Symantec for 7 years.
Marco Palladino
(CTO)Previously co-founded MemboxX, an online service for storing documents and small pieces of personal data.
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