Kong
Senior Staff Software Engineer - Agent Marketplace
$250K–$270K
San Francisco, California, United States · Hybrid · Senior Staff · Full-time · Posted Oct 7, 2026
- Experience
- 7+ years.
About the job
Architect and build Kong’s agent marketplace, including systems for agent-to-API and agent-to-agent discovery, transactions, billing, and settlement.
What you'll do
- Own marketplace user experiences, REST APIs, and developer onboarding tools.
- Build agent-native capabilities, including MCP servers, sandbox environments, and CLI/SDK workflows.
- Develop reliable infrastructure for identity verification, usage metering, attribution, and settlement; lead architecture and cross-team integration.
What they ask for
- 7+ years engineering enterprise-grade production software and building complex distributed systems from scratch.
- Master-level expertise in a modern backend stack, such as Golang or similar systems languages, plus API infrastructure, Kubernetes, and cloud-native patterns.
- Hands-on experience developing autonomous agent applications, tool-calling systems, prompt loops, or systems designed for machine consumption.
- Operational familiarity with multi-tenant architectures, usage-based metering, billing integration, or secure data exchange.
Nice to have
- West Coast/Bay Area alignment.
Pay
$250K – $270K (base salary or total pay not specified)
Tools
Golang, Kubernetes, REST API, Model Context Protocol (MCP), CLI, SDK
AI focus
Build agent-native marketplace capabilities and infrastructure for agent-to-API and agent-to-agent transactions.
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