Senior Enterprise API & AI Connectivity Engineer

Kong; New Jersey; Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Growth opportunities

Work with Fortune 50/500 customers

Exposure to cutting-edge technologies

Job summary

Kong is seeking a Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) to enhance enterprise customer adoption of their API and AI Connectivity platform. This role involves designing, building, and implementing solutions while working closely with customer engineering teams. Candidates should have 8+ years in customer-facing engineering roles with strong software development, API management, Kubernetes, and cloud infrastructure skills. Join Kong to make a significant impact by transforming enterprises in the AI era.

Qualifications

• 8+ years in customer-facing engineering, platform engineering, or software engineering roles.
• Hands-on software engineering and implementation experience required.
• Experience with API gateways, integrations, and distributed systems.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with enterprise customers to design and implement Kong-based solutions.
• Lead implementation for API gateways and related technologies.
• Build automation frameworks and custom integrations.

Skills

Software engineering

API gateways

Kubernetes expertise

Automation frameworks

Cloud infrastructure

Tools

Terraform

CI/CD pipelines

Ansible

Job description

Kong is seeking a Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) to enhance enterprise customer adoption of their API and AI Connectivity platform. This role involves designing, building, and implementing solutions while working closely with customer engineering teams. Candidates should have 8+ years in customer-facing engineering roles with strong software development, API management, Kubernetes, and cloud infrastructure skills. Join Kong to make a significant impact by transforming enterprises in the AI era.