SRE Senior Software Engineer (Poland)

Are you ready to power the World's connections?<br/>If you don’t think you meet all of the criteria below but are still interested in the job, please apply.  Nobody checks every box - we’re looking for candidates that are particularly strong in a few areas, and have some interest and capabilities in others.<br/>About the role:<br/>You will be responsible for contributing to a team that is building and maintaining workflows that automate releasing, testing and deploying products. Improving staging and production environments for SaaS distributions. Research and build monitoring/analyze tools to optimize building and deploying code-base, manage distributed systems and application resources. You will build workflows for delivering our software to a variety of platforms including AWS, GCP, Azure, and container technologies like Docker and Kubernetes to automate deployment and scale our products.<br/>Why should you want to work at Kong?  We are on a quest to build a $10b+ software company over the next few years and need YOUR help!<a href="https://systemsapproach.substack.com/p/why-apis-matter?s=r">Why APIs Matter</a>? APIs have been enabling innovation for decades!<a href="https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/konghq/company_financials">Strong VC team, Series D</a>, strong year-over-year revenue growth!Technical Leadership - We are recognized as the leader in innovation in the connectivity space.<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wd-VjsYrPMs">Marco, our CTO/co-founder </a>- “We are the Cisco of L4 and L7” - CUBE Conversation, March 2021<a href="https://venturebeat.com/2021/05/17/how-the-api-economy-is-powering-digital-transformation/">We are the leading innovator</a> in the connectivity space!Amazing Team &amp; Culture - Come be a "Konger" and find out what we mean.<a href="https://www.greatplacetowork.com/certified-company/7020766">Great Place to Work Certified</a> in 2020 &amp; 2021 <a href="https://fortune.com/ranking/best-small-workplaces-bay-area/2022/kong/">Best Workplaces</a> in 2022<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D0fUswV0Gxo">Customer Fireside Chat with Rabobank | API Summit 2023</a>Building Great Products - Learn why the world's largest companies love our tech!<a href="https://konghq.com/resources/reports/gartner-magic-quadrant-full-lifecycle-api-management">Kong Named a Leader in the 2023 Gartner Magic Quadrant</a>Over 250m+ downloads of our open-source API gateway!  Over 60k+ stars on GitHub between <a href="https://github.com/Kong/kong">Kong API</a> and <a href="https://github.com/Kong/insomnia">Kong Insomnia</a>! <h3>What you'll bring:</h3> <ul> <li>BS degree in Computer Science, similar technical field of study or equivalent practical experience. </li><li>Located in the greater Poland region.</li><li>Experience with continuous/rapid release engineering (CI/CD)."Infrastructure as Code" configuration management systems such as Terraform, Chef, Puppet or Ansible. </li><li>Experience with Apache Kafka. </li><li>Experience building and administering alerting and monitoring systems for API services.</li><li>Strong knowledge of Linux/Unix systems.</li><li>Knowledge of one or more mainstream programming languages (Go, C/C++, Python).</li><li>Strong skills in network services such as DNS, TLS/SSL, HTTP.</li><li>Experience working in a 24/7/365 service environment. </li><li>Debugging Kubernetes clusters, issues, and networking problems. </li><li>Design, implement, manage and orchestrate Kubernetes container clusters. </li><li>Any additional tasks required by manager.</li></ul> <h3>Bonus points:</h3> <ul> <li>Experience implementing secure and highly available distributed systems/ microservices. </li><li>Working knowledge of CSP networking solutions AWS (Transit Gateway, Direct Connect, VPC peering, VPN), Azure (Azure VNet ) and GCP (Network Connectivity Center).</li><li>Professional experience managing production software in AWS.</li><li>Experience with PostgreSQL in multi-region configuration. </li><li>Experience with Datadog, ElasticSearch, Prometheus, Grafana. </li><li>Experience with Redis in multi-region configuration.</li></ul>Kong has different base pay ranges for different work locations globally, which allows us to pay employees competitively and consistently in different geographic markets. Compensation varies depending on a wide array of factors, including but not limited to specific candidate location, role, skill set and level of experience. Certain roles are eligible for additional rewards including sales incentives depending on the terms of the applicable plan and role. Benefits may vary depending on location. US based employees are typically offered access to healthcare benefits, a 401(k) plan, short and long term disability benefits, basic life and AD&amp;D insurance, among others. The typical base pay range for this role in Poland is PLN $427,000 - 513,000 PLN.What is a Konger? <br/>We are a group of makers, thinkers, and doers focused on helping today’s developers build