Kong | Senior Software Engineer, Kong Identity | Toronto, Canada | CA$145K–215K
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.
Some of the problems we work on:
- 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
Our stack is primarily Go, Kubernetes, and cloud-native infrastructure.
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.
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.
Some of the problems we work on:
- 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
Our stack is primarily Go, Kubernetes, and cloud-native infrastructure.
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.
Job posting: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/kong/51d67676-a475-4f1e-a598-85f7ca...