Client-Facing API & AI Connectivity Engineer

Kong; Trenton (NJ); Vor Ort; USD 180.000 - 240.000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

Kong Inc. is seeking a Forward Deployed Engineer to help Fortune 50/500 customers modernize API infrastructure and accelerate AI adoption using Kong’s connectivity platform.

You will work directly with enterprise teams to design, implement, and optimize API and AI gateways, ensuring production-grade solutions across cloud, hybrid, and on-prem environments. As a senior engineer, you will build automation, migration tooling, and reusable accelerators, collaborate with product and engineering

Qualifikationen

• 8+ years in customer-facing engineering, platform engineering, or similar roles.
• Hands-on software engineering experience with APIs and cloud-native infra.
• Experience with API management, gateways, or distributed systems platforms.
• Strong Kubernetes and cloud familiarity across AWS/Azure/GCP.
• Proficient in Python/Go/Java/JavaScript/Lua; IaC and automation tooling.

Aufgaben

• Design, build, and implement Kong-based solutions across cloud, hybrid, and on‑premise environments.
• Lead hands-on implementations for API gateways, AI gateways, service mesh, and related tech.
• Develop automation, migration tooling, and reusable accelerators for customers.
• Drive migrations from legacy API management platforms to Kong.
• Collaborate with customer teams and internal stakeholders to solve complex challenges.
• Create production-grade code, scripts, plugins, CI/CD integrations, and Kubernetes tooling.
• Influence product roadmap with field feedback and implementation learnings.
• Produce reusable best practices, reference architectures, and design patterns.

Kenntnisse

Kubernetes

Cloud platforms (AWS/Azure/GCP)

API gateways

CI/CD pipelines

Linux

Programming (Python/Go/Java/JS/Lua)

Infrastructure as Code (Terraform/Helm

Automation tooling

Open Source / SaaS experience

Tools

Terraform

Helm

Ansible

GitOps frameworks

CI/CD tooling

Jobbeschreibung

Kong Inc. is seeking a Forward Deployed Engineer to help Fortune 50/500 customers modernize API infrastructure and accelerate AI adoption using Kong’s connectivity platform.

You will work directly with enterprise teams to design, implement, and optimize API and AI gateways, ensuring production-grade solutions across cloud, hybrid, and on-prem environments. As a senior engineer, you will build automation, migration tooling, and reusable accelerators, collaborate with product and engineering