Staff Software Engineer, Security Engineering

Experteer Overview Join Kong’s Runtime Organization as a Staff Engineer focused on security across our data plane products. You will align security requirements with engineering teams to shape the security roadmap. You’ll design and own security frameworks, conduct reviews on sensitive paths, and evangelize best practices across the org. You’ll mentor engineers and translate security needs into actionable plans in an agile setting, helping protect customers at scale across Kong's gateway and related platforms.Benefits

• Serve as the bridge between Runtime engineering and the security org to define security roadmap requirements
• Promote security best practices across the Runtime engineering org
• Research, design, and own security-oriented frameworks and features to harden dataplane and protect customers
• Provide security engineering designs and code reviews for sensitive paths
• Decompose complex problems, prototype quickly, and contribute to security initiatives using agile methods
• Coach and mentor Runtime engineers on security best practices

• 8+ years leading teams to deliver complex software with a security focus
• Expertise in Golang or Rust
• Expertise in security across all levels of the TCP/IP stack
• Strong understanding of Test-Driven Development, Secure SDLC, and secure code reviews; ability to identify and mitigate threats in code and infrastructure
• Experience with cloud providers such as AWS and GCP
• Ability to develop and maintain technical documentation (cookbooks, design/architecture docs)
• Strong analytical ability to assess complex environments and design scalable security solutions
• Outstanding communication skills to convey security needs to diverse engineering teams