Staff Forward Deployed Engineer

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🏄 California – Remote

🏄 California – Remote

💵 $192k - $274.3k / year

⏰ Full Time

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👷🏻‍♀️ Engineer

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Kong Inc.

WebsiteLinkedInAll Job Openings

201 - 500 employees

Founded 2017

💼 Consulting

📦 Logistics

🔌 API

💰 $100M Series D on 2021-02

Consulting • Logistics • API

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 • Drive migration initiatives from legacy API management platforms to Kong • Work 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 • Collaborate with Kong Product and Engineering teams to influence roadmap priorities based on customer feedback and implementation learnings • Create reusable best practices, technical assets, reference architectures, documentation, and design patterns • 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 AWS, Azure, or GCP • Programming experience in 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 • Ability to solve complex technical problems with minimal supervision • Comfort operating in ambiguous, fast-moving enterprise environments • Passion for working directly with customers and delivering measurable business outcomes • Excellent communication and collaboration skills across technical and executive audiences • 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

🏖️ Benefits

• Equity • Bonus • Healthcare benefits • 401(k) plan • Short- and long-term disability benefits • Basic life and AD&D insurance • Exposure to cutting-edge cloud-native technologies, distributed systems, AI connectivity, automation frameworks, and large-scale enterprise architectures • Opportunity to influence product direction and roadmap priorities