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Kong Inc.

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Kong Inc. is the leading AI connectivity company, delivering the ultra-low-latency infrastructure enterprises need to secure, govern, and scale both traditional APIs and complex agentic AI workloads. Through a single unified control plane, Kong seamlessly unifies API management, service mesh, and AI gateway infrastructure to transform unmanaged traffic risks into a controlled, production-ready enterprise capability.

Is Kong Inc. hiring?

Yes. As of November 5, 2026, Kong Inc. has 101 open roles on Metaintro. 61 were posted in the last 30 days.

Open roles

Newest first. Pay shown when the posting lists it.

Hiring pattern

How fast Kong Inc. is adding roles, and how they're set up.

New roles each monthRoles first posted in the month

27
17
33
66
4
JulyAugustSeptemberOctoberNovember
November: 4 new roles.

How roles are set upShare of open roles

18%
44%
26%
13%
HybridRemoteOn-siteNot stated
62% of roles are hybrid or remote.

Customers

All 73 companies Kong Inc. names as customers.

Customers hiring now35

Case studies22

  • Ayoconnect
  • Cigna
  • MNRB
  • GCash
  • SEB
  • Seaco
  • Raiffeisen Bank International (RBI)
  • TIDLOR
  • New York Stock Exchange (NYSE)
  • NexJ Systems
  • MS3
  • Mercedes-Benz Connectivity Services
  • Sky Italia
  • Mercado Bitcoin
  • Marco Polo Network
  • SKY Brasil
  • League
  • BCG
  • Brittany Ferries
  • First Abu Dhabi Bank
  • CWT
  • Department of Work and Pensions

Other customers16

What their customers say

Quotes from people at Kong Inc.'s customers.

“I would absolutely recommend Kong to all tech companies out there, but particularly to any API first companies who are depending on APIs for their monetization. Kong will change the way you manage your APIs.”

Adi Vora · CTO · Ayoconnect

“In our first Black Friday with Kong, we hit 28 billion requests – 11 times cheaper and three times faster.”

Ervis Duraj · Principal Engineer · MediaMarktSaturn

“Kong enables us to move fast without compromising on safety, and that’s critical in healthcare.”

Sakthi Gnanaprakasam · IT Principal Engineer · Cigna

“We’re not just maintaining a gateway. We’re part of how APIs are built across TELUS. The more we collaborated with teams, the more they trusted us and the more they saw we were helping them avoid problems before they happened.”

Ahmed Khalifa · Principal Architect · TELUS

“The difference between tests and reality was massive,”

Ahmed Khalifa · TELUS
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“We see too much — who owns the API, who consumes it, how often they’re calling it, what the payload looks like. We even see dead APIs,”

Ahmed Khalifa · TELUS

“We see what APIs have been onboarded, who's consuming them, how often they fail, how fast they're responding — and we can show you exactly where the bottlenecks are.”

Ahmed Khalifa · Principal Architect · TELUS

“"Delivering new products to all five of our main platforms is so much faster now all we have to do is create the new API and deploy it to our API gateway so it can be consumed by our various front-end systems,"”

Mazlan · MNRB

“"This strategy has led to significant cost savings while keeping our services secure and protected,"”

Mazlan · MNRB

“"This was only possible using Kong Enterprise Gateway to manage and secure the connections from front-end to back-end services,"”

Mazlan · MNRB

“"There are many systems that work together to provide pricing comparisons and quotes, verify the customers purchase via email and SMS, and allow them to use the interface to submit a claim. This used to take a matter of days but now, with Kong, it's instantaneous,"”

Mazlan · MNRB

“"Kong's end-to-end API management platform provides us with the ability to digitally transform our business."”

Mohd Khairul Hairi B Mazlan · Head of DevOps at MNRB · MNRB

““We use Kong Konnect for vitals, management, and the dev portal that exposes our APIs—all as a central platform for automation."”

Sven Legl · IT Architect and Innovations Manager · Siemens

“Kong has become the partner of preference for the GCash team, helping us develop a more stable, flexible, and dynamic API-first strategy that will have a positive impact on our business for years to come.”

John Vincent Biscocho · Head of Infrastructure Management and Governance · GCash

“Partnering with Kong has truly transformed our journey at GCash. Through our collaboration, we've unlocked extraordinary outcomes and achieved remarkable results with Kong Enterprise that would have been unattainable using Kong Gateway Community Edition alone.”

Angelo Nico Alina · Head of Technical Architecture · GCash

“We've unlocked extraordinary outcomes and achieved remarkable results with Kong Gateway Enterprise that would have been unattainable using Kong Gateway Community Edition alone.”

Angelo Nico Alina · Head of Technical Architecture · GCash

“"We discovered that this new approach saved at least a week for developing each Lambda function because we have shifted security completely into Kong."”

Sven Legl · Senior IT Key Expert · Siemens

““I'm quite happy to have a Lambda plugin available with Kong, because it really enables us to shift security responsibilities away from developers and integrate it directly in the API gateway,””

Sven Legl · Siemens

““We have a highly distributed landscape within Siemens… With this system, we are creating a governance layer where we can make sure that security is handled accordingly.””

Sven Legl · Senior Key IT Expert · Siemens

“Kong is helping us get there faster with the right balance of control and innovation.”

Juan Mestas · Group Technology Head · Security Bank

“Ultimately, we want to be known for delivering secure, seamless, and customer-centric banking experiences,”

Juan Mestas · Group Technology Head · Security Bank

“As we move to the cloud, Kong has made it easier to maintain performance while scaling our services,”

Aloysius Mendoza · Head of Platform Engineering · Security Bank

“Now we’ve got one control plane, one governance model, and one developer toolkit—it’s streamlined everything,”

Juan Mestas · Group Technology Head · Security Bank

“We needed agility and control for our broader ambition of becoming a cloud-first, innovation-driven organization. That’s how we arrived at Kong.”

Juan Mestas · Group Technology Head · Security Bank

“We weren’t using a real gateway at that time, and we were stuck without a centralized control point to enforce policy or streamline workflows,”

Aloysius Mendoza · Head of Platform Engineering · Security Bank

“You can’t hit your customer satisfaction targets if your features are delayed. Kong has helped us eliminate those pain points.”

Juan Mestas · Group Technology Head · Security Bank

“We are strong believers that this will reduce the time to market and cost of development.”

Daniel Franzén · Head of Open Banking · SEB

“When people in our different product areas see us getting customers due to our API offerings, everyone wants to be there.”

Daniel Franzén · Head of Open Banking · SEB

“We need all products represented by APIs on a centralized platform and portal. And that’s where we’re heading,”

Daniel Franzén · Head of Open Banking · SEB

“We weren’t satisfied with the previous API platform we had. It was quite cumbersome . . . We evaluated about eight different companies. Kong was really what we needed.”

Daniel Franzén · Head of Open Banking · SEB

AI launches and partners

What Kong Inc. has launched and who it works with on AI.

  • LaunchKong’s AI connectivity platformKong’s AI connectivity platform unifies API, AI, and event management so organizations can connect AI to enterprise systems and context, govern how users and agents access and interact with those resources, and operate AI reliably at scale.
  • LaunchKong AI GatewayKong provides Kong AI Gateway, which manages access to LLMs and supports visibility into usage and costs, quota management, audit logs, and information-leak prevention.
  • LaunchKong AI Gateway 2.0Kong AI Gateway 2.0 strengthens governance for access to AI agents and MCP tools, AI cost management, supported AI models and providers, identity-based AI policies, and authentication for AI services.
  • LaunchAPIおよびAIゲートウェイKongは、APIおよびAIゲートウェイ、メッシュ、Kubernetes環境をゼロトラストセキュリティで単一のプラットフォームから管理します。

Skills they ask for

Most frequent across open postings.

Most requested skills

  • Kubernetes
  • Negotiation
  • Salesforce
  • CI/CD
  • APIs
  • Docker
  • Communication
  • Distributed systems
  • Enterprise sales
  • Consultative selling
  • API gateways
  • Golang

Tech stack

Analytics
Google Tag Manager
Google Analytics 4
Adobe Experience Platform Launch (DTM)
Libraries
Alpine.js
Tailwind CSS
CMS
WordPress
Marketing
Intercom
Marketo
VWO
Frameworks
Next.js

Company facts

Headquarters
San Francisco, United States
Founded
2009
Industry
Technology, Information and Media
Sector (NAICS)
Information
Peer
FAR Inspections
Website
konghq.com
Social
LinkedIn · GitHub · X · YouTube · Instagram

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Questions about Kong Inc.

Is Kong Inc. hiring?
Yes. As of November 5, 2026, Kong Inc. has 101 open roles on Metaintro. 61 were posted in the last 30 days. The most are in Sales (46), Developer (27), and Tech General (5).
Where is Kong Inc. hiring?
Kong Inc. is hiring in Bengaluru, California, United States, Milan, London, Texas, United States, and New York, with the most open roles in Bengaluru.
Does Kong Inc. offer remote or hybrid work?
18% of open roles are hybrid and 44% are remote.
Who are Kong Inc.'s customers?
Kong Inc. names 73 customers, including Siemens, Maersk, Comcast, NTT Data, and MediaMarktSaturn.
What skills does Kong Inc. look for?
Its open roles most often ask for Kubernetes, Negotiation, Salesforce, CI/CD, and APIs.
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