Job Description

Senior Software Engineer on Kong's Identity team. Build the identity platform behind Konnect by developing authentication and authorization services, OAuth 2.0 / OpenID Connect infrastructure, token issuance and validation, client credential management, and dynamic claims generation. Design low-latency token generation, validation, and introspection services; design multi-tenant identity systems with strong tenant isolation; implement OAuth 2.0 and OIDC flows across Kong products; develop developer-facing APIs and SDKs; improve observability, security, and reliability of critical auth infrastructure. Stack is Go, Kubernetes, and cloud-native infrastructure. Experience with identity systems, OAuth, OIDC, JWTs, or authentication platforms is helpful but not required.