Kong
Forward Deployed Engineer
New Jersey, United States · Senior
Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 37 days ago
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About the role
- We are seeking a Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) to join Kong's growing Professional Services organization.
- This is a highly strategic, customer-facing engineering role focused on helping enterprise customers accelerate adoption of Kong's API and AI Connectivity platform through hands-on implementation, automation, migration tooling, and solution engineering.
- You will operate at the intersection of software engineering, architecture, platform engineering, and customer delivery.
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.
Requirements
- 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.
- Experience with Infrastructure-as-Code and automation tooling such as Terraform, Helm, Ansible, or GitOps frameworks.
Nice to have
- Strong builder mindset with the ability to solve complex technical problems with minimal supervision.
- Comfortable operating in ambiguous, fast-moving enterprise environments.
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills across technical and executive audiences.
- Highly organized with strong prioritization and execution skills.
- Passion for innovation, modern infrastructure, APIs, AI, and cloud-native technologies.
- Team-oriented with a strong sense of ownership and accountability.
Skills
- For more information, visit www.konghq.com http://www.konghq.com.
- Strong Kubernetes and cloud-native infrastructure expertise.
Company info
- Nobody checks every box - we're looking for candidates that are particularly strong in a few areas, and have some interest and capabilities in others.
- About the Role: We are seeking a Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) to join Kong's growing Professional Services organization.
- 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.
- Develop production-grade code, scripts, plugins, CI/CD integrations, Kubernetes automation, and infrastructure tooling as part of customer engagements.
- Partner directly with enterprise customers to design, build, and implement Kong-based solutions across cloud, hybrid, and on-premise environments.
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