Kong AI Gateway Engineer

LPL Financial

Senior Middleware Engineer building and maintaining Kong AI gateway platform at LPL Financial. Collaborating to enable secure, scalable onboarding of LLM and MCP traffic through the AI gateway.

Posted 5/21/2026full-timeFort Mill • North Carolina, Texas • 🇺🇸 United StatesMid-LevelSenior💰 $101,970 - $169,950 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AWSAzureCloudGoogle Cloud PlatformLinuxLuaMicroservicesTerraform

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Collaborating internally with our Product and Technology teams so they can get the most value out of Kong Platform
Developing internal solutions & tools for the organization to help us push our technical boundaries and improve our ability to deliver AI integration to the organization
Writing or editing technical documentation and knowledge base articles for the solutions you develop
Maintain and upkeep Kong platform
Configure and develop Kong plugins for authentication, rate limiting (including token-based throttling), logging, and transformation

Requirements

What you’ll need

Minimum of 6 years of relevant software development, middleware, and/or platform engineering experience
Proven track record in enterprise API platforms or integration layers to design and manage scalable API ecosystems
Hands-on implementation experience with Kong API and AI gateway and/or API integrations in enterprise environments
Practical working knowledge of APIs, microservices, and containerized architectures
Proficient in Linux environments including Cloud and Development tooling
Experience with building and deploying software solutions using AI Coding Agents
Experience with application development and multiple programming languages required
Experience with Lua scripting and strong knowledge of various Kong plugins and deployment through Terraform
Experience with major cloud providers such as GCP, AWS, and Azure
Experience with Google Apigee or IBM API Connect or Data Power a plus
Understanding of AI/LLM concepts and interaction with LLM APIs and MCP servers
Strong organizational and change management skills with an ability to manage competing demands
Proven team player and solution builder who loves to work collaboratively in a fast-growing dynamic environment
BS in Computer Science / B.A. or equivalent technical development experience.

Benefits

Comp & perks

401K matching
health benefits
employee stock options
paid time off
volunteer time off

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Hard Skills & Tools

API developmentKong APIAI integrationLua scriptingTerraformmicroservicescontainerized architecturesLinuxAI Coding Agentsprogramming languages

Soft Skills

organizational skillschange managementcollaborationsolution buildingteam player

Certifications

BS in Computer ScienceB.A. in technical development