We are looking for an Kong / Lua Engineer, API Gateway Hot Path.

This role owns that hot path. It is a specialist API gateway and low-latency systems role.

What This Person Will Build

• Kong or OpenResty plugin logic in Lua
• Request classification for inference, training, RAG, video, compute, and edge inference APIs
• JWT/OIDC tenant identity extraction and validation
• Redis-backed quota checks, concurrency caps, routing lookups, and request metadata
• Low-latency connection pooling and timeout behavior
• Gateway observability: p50/p95/p99 latency, errors, Redis latency, routing decisions, and tenant-level behavior
• Load tests and failure tests for Redis outage, malformed tokens, quota exhaustion, and routing-table updates
  

Must-Have Background

• Kong plugin, OpenResty, Nginx Lua, or high-performance API gateway experience
• Strong Lua or systems scripting experience in production traffic paths
• Redis experience with connection pooling, timeouts, failover, and latency debugging
• Understanding of JWT/OIDC, API gateway routing, tenant-aware request handling, and p99 performance
• Production mindset around hot-path safety, observability, and staged rollout
• Good verbal and writing English language communication skills
  

Nice to Have

• Experience with Kong Enterprise, Envoy/Lua, Nginx, OpenResty, API security, rate limiting, or high-throughput SaaS gateways