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Kong Inc.

The cloud connectivity company. Powering connections to build a reliable digital world.

Forward Deployed Engineer

EngineerEngineerFull TimeRemoteLeadTeam 201-500Since 2017H1B No SponsorCompany SiteLinkedIn

Location

California

Posted

11 days ago

Salary

$121.0K - $172.8K / year

Seniority

Lead

Job Description

Forward Deployed Engineer

Kong Inc.

• Partner directly with enterprise customers to design, build, and implement Kong-based solutions across cloud, hybrid, and on-premise environments. • 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. • Work closely with customer developers, platform teams, architects, security teams, and executives to solve complex technical and operational challenges. • Develop production-grade code, scripts, plugins, CI/CD integrations, Kubernetes automation, and infrastructure tooling as part of customer engagements. • 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.

Job Requirements

  • 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 Kubernetes and cloud-native infrastructure expertise.
  • Experience building automation frameworks, deployment tooling, CI/CD pipelines, or migration tooling.
  • 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.

Benefits

  • Offers Equity
  • Offers Bonus
  • Access to healthcare benefits
  • 401(k) plan
  • Short and long term disability benefits
  • Basic life and AD&D insurance

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