Software Engineering Manager, Insomnia - (Remote)

Are you ready to power the World's connections?

About the role:

You will be a leader of the Insomnia engineering team. This team is responsible for the Open Source and Enterprise version's of Insomnia, the foundational technology for our product offerings. As a Software Engineering Manager, you will be responsible for leading, coaching, and mentoring the team on new features and tooling for Insomnia to supporting our customers world-wide.

Insomnia is a popular API development platform that includes an API client, API designer, API testing and more, that millions of developers around the world use to build digital products across both Top Global 2000 organizations, and individual developers at smaller organizations. Insomnia is a growing product and it is an important part of Kong’s strategy. Check out the repo here: https://github.com/Kong/insomnia. Read more about Kong https://konghq.com

Why should you want to work at Kong?

Market Opportunity 

We are on a quest to build a $10b+ software company over the next few years and need YOUR help!

Why APIs Matter? APIs have been enabling innovation for decades!

Strong VC team, Series D, strong year-over-year revenue growth!

Technical Leadership - We are recognized as the leader in innovation in the connectivity space.

Marco, our CTO/co-founder - “We are the Cisco of L4 and L7” - CUBE Conversation, March 2021

We are the leading innovator in the connectivity space!

Amazing Team & Culture - Come be a "Konger" and find out what we mean.

Great Place to Work Certified in 2020 & 2021 Best Workplaces in 2022

Customer Fireside Chat with Rabobank | API Summit 2023

Building Great Products - Learn why the world's largest companies love our tech!

Kong Named a Leader in the 2023 Gartner Magic Quadrant

Over 250m+ downloads of our open-source API gateway! Over 60k+ stars on GitHub between Kong API and Kong Insomnia!

What you'll do:

• Work with product managers, engineers and product designers to create meaningful product experiences.
• Build new features and improve upon existing ones.
• Engage with the Insomnia open source community. 
• Hire, mentor, and maintain healthy Engineering teams who value collaboration and innovation.
• Manage shift scheduling, measuring key performance indicators (KPIs), and training, assure high-quality work and SLA.
• Solid technical expertise for Linux systems troubleshooting, and profiling, experience with debugging tools and complex SaaS applications.
• Leadership experience displaying the ability to organize and prioritize complex problem resolution and bug fixes, debugging distributed services.
• Organize and manage your teams to fit constructively into the org as a whole and help the company succeed.
• Set and manage expectations with other engineering teams, senior management, and external stakeholders.
• Give constructive feedback to Engineers, conduct 1:1’s, address interpersonal issues, and conduct reviews.
• Suggest Engineering guidelines, principles, and processes to improve the Engineering org.
• Assure high-quality work and SLA adherence from the entire Engineering org.

What you'll bring:

• 2+ years of Eng management experience.
• Experience managing remote teams.
• Experience doing reviews, hiring, comp.
• Demonstrated leadership of Engineering teams.
• Proven customer relationship skill sets (internal and external customers).
• On-premise, cloud, and hybrid product background.
• Experience working on an infrastructure product line.
• Strong proficiency for testing and an absolute distaste for unscalable code.
• At least 4 years of experience working with relational databases like PostgreSQL.
• At least 2 years of experience working with cloud infrastructure (like AWS, Azure or GCP).
• Strong understanding of networking protocols and transports (HTTP, GraphQL, TCP, WebSockets, SSE).
• The ability to validate your work with qualitative or quantitative data.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills. 

Kong has different base pay ranges for different work locations globally, which allows us to pay employees competitively and consistently in different geographic markets. The compensation varies depending on a wide array of factors, including but not limited to specific candidate location, role, skill set, and level of experience. Certain roles are eligible for additional rewards including sales incentives depending on the terms of the applicable plan and role. Benefits may vary depending on location. US-based employees are typically offered access to healthcare benefits, a 401(k) plan, short and long-term disability benefits, and basic life and AD&D insurance, among others. The typical base pay range for this role in USD. USD 165,000 - 185,695.

What is a Konger? 

We are a group of makers, thinkers, and doers focused on helping today’s developers build tomorrow’s technology. Our teams work on the bleeding edge of API innovation to provide our users with a central nervous system for data and services. 

We put design at the heart of everything we do, and we’re relentlessly focused on creating beautiful experiences for our customers. That’s why technology companies, major banks, e-commerce innovators, and government agencies put Kong in front of their most important web applications. 

We believe in the power of Open Source and everything it stands for. That’s why developers around the world enthusiastically contribute on top of our open-source platform. 

We are passionate about solving challenges that will fundamentally shape the future of technology, and we’re looking for the right people to join us on our mission. If you believe in taking ownership of your work, making an impact, and having fun along the way, we would love to talk to you.

Kong Core Values: 

COURAGE & WHO WE ARE

Our company values are the foundation of our success. They guide our decisions, our interactions, and our objectives. From recruiting, onboarding, performance management, training, interactions, and more, our core values:

We are CUSTOMER CHAMPIONS. Customers are everything, we put them at the center of everything we do. We are all empowered to make an impact.

We are OWNERS. We are drivers, not passengers and own the quality and outcomes of our work.

We are UNSTOPPABLE. We work with purpose, obsession, and grit. It takes muscle to do hard things and doing hard things builds muscle.

We are REAL. We are genuine, principled, and confident without arrogance. Show respect and kindness, especially in tough moments.

We Are ACCELERATORS. We prioritize speed, iteration, and results.

We are GLOBAL. We work together from anywhere to achieve our common goals. Our differences make us stronger.

We are EXPLORERS. We value ideas over hierarchy. Never accept the status quo. We make bold bets, fail, and learn everyday. There is always a way.

About Kong: 

Kong is THE cloud native API platform with the fastest, most adopted API gateway in the world (over 300m downloads!). Loved by developers and trusted with enterprises’ most critical traffic volumes, Kong helps startups and Fortune 500 companies build with confidence – allowing them to bring solutions to market faster with API and service connectivity that scales easily and securely. 

83% of web traffic today is API calls! APIs are the connective tissue of the cloud and the underlying technology that allows software to talk and interact with one another. Therefore, we believe that APIs act as the nervous system of the cloud. Our audacious mission is to build the nervous system that will safely and reliably connect all of humankind!

For more information about Kong, please visit konghq.com or follow @thekonginc on Twitter.

We are an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or veteran status.