API Platform Engineer, Kong API & AI Gateway

Location: Madrid, with working from home up to 40%

Company

hirify.global combines local roots with global relevance and develops solutions for the future of finance.

What you will do

• Operate and continuously improve the business-critical Kong API Gateway across OpenShift and Microsoft Azure, including incidents, changes, upgrades, security, capacity, and lifecycle management.
• Build Kong AI Gateway into a production-ready service for secure, observable, and self-service LLM and MCP connectivity.
• Develop automation, self-service capabilities, platform services, and tooling for API onboarding, policy delivery, and platform changes.
• Use APIs, GitOps, CI/CD pipelines, and infrastructure as code to improve platform delivery.
• Establish observability with metrics, logs, and traces, and strengthen API security through policies, certificates, secrets, and modern identity standards.
• Troubleshoot production issues, perform root-cause analysis, and participate in the platform on-call rotation.

Requirements

• Hands-on experience operating an API gateway in a production environment; direct Kong experience or experience with another API gateway is relevant.
• Strong production experience with Kubernetes or OpenShift and Microsoft Azure, including services such as AKS and Entra ID.
• Proven automation experience with GitOps, CI/CD, and infrastructure or configuration as code, using tools such as Terraform, Helm, Argo CD, or GitLab CI.
• Software engineering or scripting experience.
• Solid knowledge of networking, TLS, certificates, secrets, and identity standards such as OAuth and OIDC.
• Experience with observability, incident response, and root-cause analysis in business-critical, regulated environments.
• Production judgment, curiosity, and the ability to take ownership are required; experience with every listed tool is not necessary.

Nice to have

• Go experience for Terraform integrations.
• Java and Spring Boot experience for self-service platform development.
• Knowledge of OpenTelemetry.

Culture & Benefits

• Flexible work models with working from home up to 40%.
• Continuous learning, feedback, and an extensive personal development offering.
• Agile working methods including Scrum and design thinking.
• International platform team environment.

Hiring process

• Only direct applications are accepted.
• Questions can be directed to Yuliya Stoyko by phone or through the listed FAQ resource.