Job Title: Senior Software Engineer, Kong Identity
Company: Kong
Location: Toronto, Canada
Compensation: CA$145K–215K
Source: Hacker News
About the Role
I'm a Staff Engineer on Kong's Identity team. We're hiring a Senior Software Engineer to help build the identity platform behind Konnect.
The team owns authentication and authorization services, OAuth 2.0 / OpenID Connect infrastructure, token issuance and validation, client credential management, claims generation, and the APIs that let customers automate identity workflows.
Key Responsibilities & Challenges
Some of the problems we work on include:
- Building low-latency token generation, validation, and introspection services
- Designing multi-tenant identity systems with strong tenant isolation
- Implementing OAuth 2.0 and OIDC flows across Kong products
- Developing dynamic claims engines and authorization capabilities
- Operating globally distributed authentication services with caching, replication, and edge optimization
- Building developer-facing APIs and SDKs
- Improving observability, security, and reliability of critical auth infrastructure
Technical Stack
Our stack is primarily Go, Kubernetes, and cloud-native infrastructure.
Requirements
We're looking for engineers with experience building backend and distributed systems. Experience with identity systems, OAuth, OIDC, JWTs, or authentication platforms is helpful but not required.
How to Apply
View the full job posting and apply here: Kong Careers - Senior Software Engineer, Kong Identity