Kong Inc. is a leading developer of cloud API technologies and the most widely adopted API gateway and service mesh platform. The company provides API management, governance, and monetization solutions that enable organizations to build, run, discover, and manage APIs and AI-powered applications at scale. Kong serves enterprise customers across financial services, pharmaceuticals, insurance, e-commerce, and government sectors.

Products & services

Kong Konnect A cloud-based API and AI connectivity platform for managing API gateways, AI traffic, event integrations, governance, analytics, developer access, and monetization.
Kong AI Gateway A gateway for governing and routing LLM, agent, and MCP traffic with access control, prompt protection, token limits, semantic caching, provider routing, and AI observability.
Kong Gateway An API gateway for routing, securing, transforming, and observing API traffic across cloud-native, hybrid, and self-managed environments.
Kong Event Gateway A gateway for exposing and governing event-streaming traffic, including Kafka, with authentication, encryption, failover, routing, and controlled access beyond broker networks.
Kong Insomnia An API development and testing client for REST, GraphQL, gRPC, and related protocols, with environments, collections, mock servers, automation, plugins, and API design governance.
Kong Mesh A service mesh for managing service-to-service connectivity, traffic policies, security, and observability across Kubernetes, containers, virtual machines, and multi-zone environments.

Leadership

Marco Palladino Co Founder & CTO
Augusto Marietti Co-Founder and CEO
Juliette Rizkallah CMO
Sunil Wadhwa Chief Customer Officer
Michele Zonca Founder

Seniority mix

Entry & junior 0%
Mid-level 6%
Senior 56%
Lead & principal 38%
Manager & above 0%

Based on 16 open roles

Where they hire

Milan, Italy 45%
San Francisco, CA 36%
New York, NY 9%
Shanghai, China 9%

Remote: 91%

Based on 11 roles with a listed city

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