Software Engineer - Rust - Event Gateway

Kong

Software Engineer • On-site • Full-time • Italy

Milan, Italy

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As part of Kong's event-gateway team, you'll work on core features of a fast-growing data plane, starting with the Kafka proxy and expanding to MQTT, AMQP, and more.

Stack

Kafka Linux Rust

Responsibilities

▹Build and maintain a high-performance, flexible Kafka protocol proxy
▹Architect, design, and implement new features to extend the Event Proxy
▹Troubleshoot bugs, tune performance, and do low-level optimization
▹Collaborate with other data plane engineers to expand the Kong runtime platform

Requirements

▹2+ years programming server-side applications and components
▹2+ years Rust experience with understanding of async Rust
▹Experience with distributed systems, Linux networking stack, and systems programming (L7/L4)
▹Comfortable working with a remotely distributed team
▹Strong ownership and excellent verbal/written communication

Nice to have

▹Hands-on experience with Tokio
▹Contributions to Rust open source projects
▹Hands-on experience with Kafka internals

Soft skills

Strong sense of ownershipExcellent written communication (documentation)

About the company

Kong Inc. is a leading developer of API and AI connectivity technologies, building the infrastructure that powers the agentic era.

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Location

Milan, IT

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