Staff Forward Deployed Engineer
AI summary of the role
Staff Forward Deployed Engineer helping Fortune 50/500 enterprises adopt Kong’s API and AI connectivity platform across cloud, hybrid, and on-premise environments.
What you’ll do
- Design and implement Kong-based API, AI gateway, service mesh, and developer portal solutions
- Build automation frameworks, migration tooling, integrations, plugins, and infrastructure accelerators
- Lead migrations from legacy API management platforms to Kong
- 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 AWS, Azure, or GCP and Infrastructure-as-Code or automation tools
Technologies
Kubernetes · AWS · Azure · GCP · Python · Go · Terraform · Helm · Ansible · GitOps
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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