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What they do

Kong calls itself the AI Connectivity Company. Its platform, Kong Konnect, lets companies secure, manage, and govern traffic across APIs and AI models. Products include Kong Gateway and AI Gateway. Kong started in Milan and has its head office in San Francisco. It passed $100M in yearly recurring revenue and has more than 600 people in 25+ countries.

What they value

• Customer champions: put customers at the center of everything.
• Owners: own the quality and outcomes of your work.
• Unstoppable: work with purpose, obsession, and grit.
• Real: be genuine and kind, and confident without arrogance.
• Accelerators: put speed, iteration, and results first.
• Explorers: value ideas over hierarchy, make bold bets, and learn.

Where they hire

Most roles are in the United States, India, the United Kingdom, Singapore, Italy, Australia, and France. Others are in Dubai, Canada, Thailand, Indonesia, China, Spain, Sweden, and the Netherlands. Of 74 Postings, 29 are remote and 13 are hybrid. No Posting mentions the right to work or visa sponsorship.

Teams and roles

The board lists 74 open roles. Most are in sales.

• Sales (34): enterprise and territory account executives, account development representatives, solutions engineers, and partner sales.
• Field engineering (7): forward deployed engineers who build with customers.
• Engineering (12): software engineers for the AI Gateway, managed gateways, identity, and the Konnect platform, plus site reliability engineers.
• Customer success and support (8): customer success managers, a support engineer, and a technical instructor.
• Marketing, product, operations, IT, legal, finance, and recruiting.

About a third of the Postings give pay. US ranges are from $56K to $400K, and many include equity and a bonus or commission.

What they look for

Most Postings ask for a set number of years, often 7 or more. Sales Postings ask for experience selling enterprise software, and many name Salesforce or MEDDPICC (a sales method). Technical roles often ask for API management or API gateways, and many for Kubernetes. Many Postings ask for strong communication skills. Every Posting says to apply even if you do not meet every point.