Forward Deployed Engineer

📋 Description

• Partner directly with enterprise customers to design, build, and implement Kong-based solutions
• Lead hands-on implementation efforts for API gateways, AI gateways, service mesh, developer
• Build automation frameworks, migration tooling, custom integrations, and reusable accelerators to
• Drive migration initiatives from legacy API management platforms to Kong.
• Work closely with customer developers, platform teams, architects, security teams, and executives
• Develop production-grade code, scripts, plugins, CI/CD integrations, Kubernetes automation, and

🎯 Requirements

• 8+ years in customer-facing engineering, platform engineering, professional services, site
• 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
• Strong proficiency in Linux, networking, cloud infrastructure, and DevOps practices.

🎁 Benefits

• Impact: Work directly with some of the world's largest enterprises to modernize API infrastructure
• Growth: Accelerate technical and professional growth through exposure to cutting-edge cloud-native
• Opportunity: Be part of a rapidly growing Professional Services organization shaping how