Senior Software Engineer, Runtime Interpreter (Scheme / Rust)

Overview

Senior Software Engineer, Runtime Interpreter (Scheme / Rust)

Kong is an Open-Core project. Its foundation is the open-source API Gateway. The Enterprise Gateway extends and improves it. We are building a series of projects to enhance the core API platform for developers, and we are looking for a Software Engineer who is passionate about Scheme, Rust, and implementing interpreters and compilers. The role is fully remote for Europe-based candidates.

What You’ll Be Doing

Architecture, design, and implement a Rust-based interpreter for a Scheme-based Domain Specific Language.

Develop tooling to improve the developer experience (playgrounds, documentation, LLM code generation).

Bugs troubleshooting, performance tuning, and low-level optimizations for the interpreter.

Collaborate with a world-class engineering team distributed around the world.

What You’ll Bring

5+ years of programming experience, with demonstrable experience in Rust.

Experience designing Scheme-based dialects and implementing their interpreters, preferably in Rust.

Solid hands-on low-level technical expertise in Linux systems troubleshooting and profiling.

Comfortable working with a remotely distributed team.

Strong sense of ownership and excellent verbal and written communication skills — engineers at Kong write the documentation for their products.

About Kong

Kong Inc., a leading developer of cloud API technologies, is on a mission to enable companies worldwide to become “API-first” and securely accelerate AI adoption. Kong helps organizations—from startups to Fortune 500 enterprises—unleash developer productivity, build securely, and accelerate time to market. For more information about Kong, please visit or follow us on X @thekonginc.

Seniority level

Mid-Senior level

Employment type

Full-time

Job function

Engineering and Information Technology

Industries

Software Development

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