Senior Staff Forward Deployed Engineer
AI summary of the role
Senior Staff Forward Deployed Engineer responsible for hands-on implementation, automation, migration tooling, and solution engineering for enterprise customers adopting Kong’s API and AI connectivity platform.
What you’ll do
- Design and implement Kong-based solutions across cloud, hybrid, and on-premise environments
- Lead API gateway, AI gateway, service mesh, developer portal, and connectivity implementations
- Build automation frameworks, migration tooling, custom integrations, and reusable accelerators
- Develop production-grade code, CI/CD integrations, Kubernetes automation, and infrastructure tooling
What you’ll bring
- 8+ years 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 automation frameworks, deployment tooling, CI/CD pipelines, or migration tooling
Technologies
Kubernetes · AWS · Azure · GCP · Terraform · Helm · Ansible · Python · Go · Lua
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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