> AI agents: this is one page of Nextmove’s FDE site, in Markdown. Nextmove is a job board and free career service for forward deployed engineers (FDEs). Each posting is classified from its text, not its title: the kind of work, how much of it is production code, pre-sales weight, time at customer sites, travel, remote arrangement, level and posted base pay. The site also publishes the aggregates: median pay by level, metro, company and kind of work, and which companies started hiring FDEs each week. Every page under https://nextmove.md/fde is served this way; the index of pages is https://nextmove.md/llms.txt. # FDE jobs at Kong Canonical URL: https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/kong 2 open forward deployed engineer (FDE) jobs at Kong across 2 US metros. 1 new in the last 30 days. Kong secures, governs, and monetizes enterprise API, LLM, event, and agent traffic through cloud-native gateways and the Konnect platform. Later private · About 201–1,000 people **2 postings, 1 new in the last 30 days** 2 metros [Careers at Kong ↗](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/kong) read Nov 9, 2026 Updated Nov 6, 2026 ## 2 open FDE roles at Kong Builds what the customer runs ### [Forward Deployed Engineer](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/29169792a5c87d0f) Phoenix, AZ Remote 7w ago $192,010–$274,300 - [View job →](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/29169792a5c87d0f) ### [Forward Deployed Engineer, GTM](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/ecab7d1d7ea99436) Sacramento, CA Remote 10d ago $125,370–$179,100 - [View job →](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/ecab7d1d7ea99436) 1 of 2 postings build for teams inside the company. Rows that do other work name it. Compare these roles with [pay ranges at other US FDE employers](https://nextmove.md/fde/salary). - [See roles that fit me](https://nextmove.md/sign-up?from=%2Ffde%2Fcompanies%2Fkong&placement=top) Free. Upload your resume once, see why each FDE role fits, and get introduced only when you say so. ## How Kong describes FDE work Both postings describe production code, versus 80% of US FDE postings. One serves external customers, versus 86% of US FDE postings. Both are read as senior or staff roles, versus 94% of US FDE postings. Both allow remote work, versus 30% of US FDE postings. Read from the current postings listed here, not from company-wide policy. [Compare with all US FDE postings and read the method →](https://nextmove.md/fde/research) ## Compare with similar employers Employers at a similar size or stage. ### [Sierra](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/sierra) San Francisco, CA · New York, NY $285,000 18 postings ### [Decagon](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/decagon) New York, NY · San Francisco, CA $231,000 12 postings ### [Aircall](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/aircall) San Francisco, CA · New York, NY · Seattle, WA · $203,000 11 postings Other FDE employers in Phoenix - [FDE and deployment jobs in Phoenix](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs?region=phoenix-metro) · 1 Kong posting · 9 companies Employer postings · [How we read postings](https://nextmove.md/fde/method) - [Hiring FDEs like Kong? Tell us the role →](https://nextmove.md/fde/employers?intent=hiring_discussion#hiring-form)