Kong Inc.

Senior Software Development Engineer – Test

Kong Inc.

full-time

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Location Type: Remote

Location: Remote • 🇨🇦 Canada

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Job Level

Senior

Tech Stack

Distributed SystemsGoGraphQLGRPCJavaScriptJenkinsJMeterMicroservicesTypeScript

About the role

  • Help build an engineering culture that enables quality in all software feature development teams across the company.
  • Develop and execute comprehensive test strategies for platform services including authentication, authorization, search, notifications, and audit logging systems.
  • Design and implement automated testing frameworks for backend services, APIs, and distributed systems.
  • Make frequent contributions to our test automation harness as part of the continuous integration pipeline.
  • Design test cases and execute various tests, including functional, integration, end-to-end, security, load, and performance testing for high-availability platform services.
  • Build tools and frameworks to support automated testing, chaos engineering, and performance testing of our platform infrastructure.
  • Develop and maintain security testing practices for authentication and authorization systems, including penetration testing and vulnerability assessments.
  • Interact and participate in meetings with key stakeholders, team members, and internal users regarding timelines and technical issues.
  • Mentor and guide other Quality Engineering team members and technical and non-technical staff members.
  • Collaborate with SRE and DevOps teams to implement observability and monitoring for test environments.

Requirements

  • 5+ years of software testing experience with at least 3 years focused on backend services, distributed systems, or platform infrastructure.
  • Functional testing experience, including defining test strategy, test planning, test case design, execution, and reporting.
  • Expertise with automated testing tools and strategies for backend services and APIs.
  • Strong programming skills in one or more languages such as Go or JavaScript/TypeScript.
  • Deep understanding of testing authentication and authorization systems (OAuth 2.0, OIDC, JWT, SAML, RBAC, etc.).
  • Experience testing distributed systems, message queues, and event-driven architectures.
  • Experience with API testing frameworks and tools (REST, GraphQL, gRPC).
  • Recent exposure to a startup environment building and contributing to a test framework, including automation, from the ground up.
  • Solid understanding of various test frameworks and automation of backend systems and microservices.
  • Experience with Continuous Integration/Delivery concepts and tools, such as GitHub Actions, Jenkins, or similar.
  • Experience with performance engineering, profiling, and load testing tools such as k6, JMeter, Gatling, or Locust.
  • Experience working with globally distributed teams.
  • Demonstrated skills using code repositories and Atlassian tools (GitHub, JIRA, Confluence, or similar tools).
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Hard skills
automated testingbackend servicesdistributed systemsfunctional testingtest strategytest case designperformance testingsecurity testingprogramming in Goprogramming in JavaScript/TypeScript
Soft skills
mentoringcollaborationcommunicationstakeholder engagementteam leadership