Software Engineer - Rust - Event Gateway

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U.S. role benchmark (BLS OEWS)

$116,543 U.S. median for this role

Projected growth (BLS Employment Projections)

+9.8% - Much faster than average

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Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, OEWS, May 2024 and Employment Projections, 2024-2034.

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Engineering From the posting source checked Jun 20, 2026

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Mid From the posting source checked Jun 20, 2026

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About this role

Software Engineer - Rust - Event Gateway Milan, Italy Are you ready to unlock intelligence? If you don't think you meet all of the criteria below but are still interested in the job, please apply. Nobody checks every box - we're looking for candidates that are particularly strong in a few areas, and have some interest and capabilities in others. About the role: Kong event-gateway is a new fast growing data plane that brings events to the Kong platform. Developers and architects are adopting Kong event-gateway in production among a large variety of use-cases, and actively help make Kong a better product with their feedback and contributions. As a Software Engineer in the event gateway team, you will be working on core features of the event gateway, first on the Kafka proxy and later expanding to MQTT, AMQP and other eventing protocols. You will also work closely with engineers of other runtimes on the shared data-plane platform and with engineers of the Konnect SaaS platform. What you'll be doing: - Responsible for building and maintaining a high performance and flexible proxy of the Kafka protocol. - Architecture, design, and implement new innovative features to extend capabilities of the existing Event Proxy. - Bugs troubleshooting, performance tuning and low-level optimizations. - Work along other data plane engineers to expand the Kong runtime platform. - And any additional tasks required by the manager. What you'll bring: - 2+ years of programming in server-side applications and components. - 2+ years of Rust programming

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