Staff Forward Deployed Engineer
AI summary of the role
Staff Forward Deployed Engineer leading hands-on implementation, automation, migration, and solution engineering for enterprise customers adopting Kong’s API and AI Connectivity platform.
What you’ll do
- Design and implement Kong-based API, AI gateway, service mesh, and developer portal solutions for enterprise customers.
- Build production-grade automation frameworks, migration tooling, integrations, plugins, CI/CD integrations, and Kubernetes automation.
- Lead migrations from legacy API management platforms to Kong across cloud, hybrid, and on-premise environments.
- Solve complex technical and operational challenges with customer developers, platform teams, architects, security teams, and executives.
What you’ll bring
- 8+ years of experience in customer-facing engineering, platform engineering, professional services, SRE, or software engineering.
- Hands-on software engineering and implementation experience with API gateways, API management, integrations, or distributed systems.
- Strong Kubernetes, cloud-native infrastructure, Linux, networking, cloud infrastructure, and DevOps expertise.
- Experience with AWS, Azure, or GCP and with automation, deployment, CI/CD, or migration tooling.
Technologies
Kubernetes · Terraform · Helm · Ansible · GitOps · AWS · Azure · GCP · Python · Go
About Kong
Kong secures, governs, and monetizes enterprise API, LLM, event, and agent traffic through cloud-native gateways and the Konnect platform.
Series E · 500–1000 people
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