Kong
Forward Deployed Engineer
New Jersey, United States
Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 68 days ago
JavaScriptPythonJavaGoDistributed SystemsAWSAzureCloud PlatformsKubernetesTerraformAnsibleHelmCI/CDLinuxDevOpsSite Reliability EngineeringPlatform EngineeringCustomer SuccessCommunicationCollaborationOrganizational Skills
About the role
- You will operate at the intersection of software engineering, architecture, platform engineering, and customer delivery.
- Working at Kong is a unique opportunity to make a massive impact on Fortune 50/500 customers as they modernize mission-critical systems for the AI era.
- Work directly with some of the world's largest enterprises to modernize API infrastructure and accelerate AI adoption through Kong's connectivity platform.
Responsibilities
- Lead hands-on implementation efforts for API gateways, AI gateways, service mesh, developer portals, and related connectivity technologies.
- Build automation frameworks, migration tooling, custom integrations, and reusable accelerators to simplify customer adoption and modernization efforts.
- Drive migration initiatives from legacy API management platforms to Kong.
- Collaborate with Kong Product and Engineering teams to influence roadmap priorities based on real-world customer feedback and implementation learnings.
- Create reusable best practices, technical assets, reference architectures, documentation, and design patterns to scale delivery excellence across the organization.
- Support strategic customer initiatives involving AI connectivity, governance, platform modernization, and cloud-native transformation.
Nice to have
- 8+ years in customer-facing engineering, platform engineering, professional services, site reliability engineering, or software engineering roles.
- Strong hands-on software engineering and implementation experience.
- Experience with API gateways, API management, integrations, or distributed systems platforms.
- Strong proficiency in Linux, networking, cloud infrastructure, and DevOps practices.
- Experience with major cloud providers including AWS, Azure, or GCP.
- Programming experience in languages such as Python, Go, Java, JavaScript, or Lua.
- Experience with Infrastructure-as-Code and automation tooling such as Terraform, Helm, Ansible, or GitOps frameworks.
- Prior experience working in API Management, Open Source, Middleware, SaaS, or Infrastructure software companies is highly preferred.
Skills
- For more information, visit www.konghq.com http://www.konghq.com.
- Strong Kubernetes and cloud-native infrastructure expertise.
Company info
- Develop production-grade code, scripts, plugins, CI/CD integrations, Kubernetes automation, and infrastructure tooling as part of customer engagements.
- Be part of a rapidly growing Professional Services organization that is shaping how enterprises adopt APIs, AI gateways, and modern connectivity platforms globally.
- Partner directly with enterprise customers to design, build, and implement Kong-based solutions across cloud, hybrid, and on-premise environments.
Visa & Work Authorization
- For this role, we are looking for a US Citizen who can support Government/Public Sector Customers
This listing is sourced directly from Kong's careers page and normalized into a canonical job model.