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Meet Kong

Kong Inc. develops API and AI connectivity infrastructure for enterprises and developers. Its Kong Konnect platform helps organizations secure, manage, govern, observe and monetize traffic across APIs, AI models, agents and event-driven systems across cloud, hybrid and on-premises environments. Products include Kong Gateway, Kong AI Gateway, Kong Event Gateway, Kong Mesh, developer portals, identity and governance capabilities, usage metering and Insomnia developer tooling. Kong serves startups and large enterprises, including Fortune 500 companies, and its open-source Kong Gateway is widely used for cloud-native API traffic management.View more

Kong Inc. develops API and AI connectivity infrastructure for enterprises and developers. Its Kong Konnect platform helps organizations secure, manage, govern, observe and monetize traffic across APIs, AI models, agents and event-driven systems across cloud, hybrid and on-premises environments. Products include Kong Gateway, Kong AI Gateway, Kong Event Gateway, Kong Mesh, developer portals, identity and governance capabilities, usage metering and Insomnia developer tooling. Kong serves startups and large enterprises, including Fortune 500 companies, and its open-source Kong Gateway is widely used for cloud-native API traffic management.

Founded
2009
Company size
1000+ employees
Company stage
Not known
Headquarters
San Francisco, USA

Why work here

Kong offers candidates the opportunity to work on large-scale API, distributed-systems and AI infrastructure problems: its careers site says its systems process more than 1 trillion API and AI requests daily and its workforce exceeds 1,000 people across 30+ countries. The company raised a $175 million Series E at a $2 billion valuation and has expanded into AI gateways, agent governance and developer infrastructure. Engineering roles publicly reference Go, Kubernetes, PostgreSQL, Redis, AWS and modern observability and GitOps tooling. Kong also advertises flexible time off, stock options for most employees and a four-week paid sabbatical after five years. Its careers site reports a 4.5/5 Glassdoor rating, while 95% of surveyed U.S. employees said it is a great place to work.Read more

Kong offers candidates the opportunity to work on large-scale API, distributed-systems and AI infrastructure problems: its careers site says its systems process more than 1 trillion API and AI requests daily and its workforce exceeds 1,000 people across 30+ countries. The company raised a $175 million Series E at a $2 billion valuation and has expanded into AI gateways, agent governance and developer infrastructure. Engineering roles publicly reference Go, Kubernetes, PostgreSQL, Redis, AWS and modern observability and GitOps tooling. Kong also advertises flexible time off, stock options for most employees and a four-week paid sabbatical after five years. Its careers site reports a 4.5/5 Glassdoor rating, while 95% of surveyed U.S. employees said it is a great place to work.

Industry
API Management and AI Connectivity
Open jobs
107 open jobs
Notable investors
Tiger Global Management, Balderton Capital, Andreessen Horowitz, Index Ventures, CRV, Sapphire Ventures, Notable Capital, 137 Ventures, Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan

Tech stack

Go

Programming Language

Lua

Programming Language

Kubernetes

Container Orchestration

Docker

Containers

AWS

Cloud Platform

Google Cloud

Cloud Platform

Microsoft Azure

Cloud Platform

PostgreSQL

Database

Redis

Database and Cache

ClickHouse

Analytics Database

Apache Druid

Analytics Database

Terraform

Infrastructure as Code

Helm

Kubernetes Tooling

Argo CD

Continuous Delivery

Prometheus

Observability

Grafana

Observability

Datadog

Observability

OpenResty

Web Platform

NGINX

Web Server and Proxy

Key people

6 people
Augusto MariettiCo-founderView bio

Augusto "Aghi" Marietti is Kong's CEO and co-founder, responsible for company vision, strategy and long-term growth. He previously co-founded and led Mashape, the API marketplace acquired by RapidAPI in 2017, and founded European cloud-storage startup MemboxX. He holds a B.S. in Economics from the Catholic University of Milan, studied at UC Berkeley and is an inventor on multiple U.S. patents.

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Marco PalladinoCo-founderView bio

Marco Palladino is Kong's CTO and co-founder and is responsible for the design and delivery of its products and technical direction around APIs, distributed systems and microservices. He co-founded Mashape in 2010, which developed into a major API marketplace before its acquisition by RapidAPI. Palladino studied at the University of Milan and is an inventor and software developer.

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Gunjan AggarwalChief People OfficerView bio

Gunjan Aggarwal leads Kong's global people strategy, recruiting and organizational development. She previously served as Chief People Officer at Confluent and RingCentral and held senior HR leadership roles at RELX Group. She holds an Electronics and Communications degree from Jamia Millia Islamia and an MBA in HR from XLRI Jamshedpur.

Joe EskenaziChief Revenue OfficerView bio

Joe Eskenazi leads Kong's global revenue organization, including direct sales, sales engineering, business development, channels, revenue operations and enablement. He previously served as SVP of Sales & Success for the Americas at Sprinklr and held leadership roles at Tenfold, Fuze, IBM and other enterprise technology companies. He holds an MBA from USC Marshall.

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Bruce FeltChief Financial OfficerView bio

Bruce Felt joined Kong as CFO in 2026, bringing more than three decades of finance and technology leadership. He previously served as CFO of Domo and SuccessFactors and has led three companies through IPOs. At Kong he supports financial strategy and global scaling. He holds a B.S. in Accounting from the University of South Carolina and an MBA from Stanford.

Reza ShafiiSenior Vice President, ProductView bio

Reza Shafii leads product at Kong and has extensive infrastructure and middleware experience. His earlier roles include software engineering at Nortel Networks, consulting at BEA Systems, becoming MuleSoft's first product-management hire, VP of Product at CoreOS, and GM and VP of Platform Services for OpenShift at Red Hat.

Latest company news

4 stories

Kong Joins ServiceNow Control Tower Alliance Aimed At Helping Enterprises Safely Adopt AI

Kong Inc.

Kong became a founding member of ServiceNow's Control Tower Alliance, with plans to combine ServiceNow's enterprise AI governance capabilities with Kong's runtime enforcement across APIs, models, tools and agents.

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Kong Named to Fortune’s 2026 Best Workplaces in Technology List

Kong Inc.

Kong was named to Fortune's 2026 Best Workplaces in Technology list. Kong reported that 95% of surveyed employees said it is a great place to work.

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Kong Announces Volcano: Agentic Infrastructure for the AI Era

Kong Inc.

Kong announced Volcano, an AI-native developer platform combining durable compute, branchable databases, file storage, authentication and real-time services for building and operating AI agents and modern applications.

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Kong AI Gateway Expands With New Capabilities, Bringing Enterprise Governance to the Agentic AI Era

Kong Inc.

Kong announced general availability of Kong AI Gateway 2.2 with expanded model support, MCP tool governance, identity-aware policies and AI cost-management capabilities.

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Jobs at Kong

107 open roles
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