Forward Deployed Engineer

🕒 May 15

🏖️ New Jersey – Remote

🏖️ New Jersey – Remote

💵 $133.1k - $190.1k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🔴 Lead

👷🏻‍♀️ Engineer

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Kong Inc.

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201 - 500 employees

Founded 2017

🔌 API

☁️ SaaS

🏢 Enterprise

💰 $100M Series D on 2021-02

API • SaaS • Enterprise

Kong Inc. is a company that provides a comprehensive API platform designed to facilitate API management, AI integration, and developer productivity. It offers solutions like Kong Gateway, Kong Konnect, and a variety of other tools targeted at managing and optimizing the API lifecycle. Kong's platform supports multi-cloud environments and is built to deliver high performance and security. It is notably recognized by Gartner as a leader in API management and supports innovations across industries like financial services, healthcare, and technology. The company emphasizes flexibility, security, and speed, making it a favored choice for enterprises looking to enhance their digital services through APIs. Kong also supports a robust community of developers and provides extensive integrations and plugins to streamline API management and operations.

📋 Description

• 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.

🎯 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

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