# Forward Deployed Engineer at Kong

- Company: Kong
- What the company does: Backed by Index, NEA and a16z.
- Company website: http://konghq.com/
- Type: Startups (AI role)
- Level: Mid level
- Location: New Jersey, United States
- Work setup: Remote
- Pay: $192K to $274K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-09-16
- Apply by: 2026-10-31
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/kong/d52fda5c-51b7-44b4-b152-32cc7b8ffcf1
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/kong-forward-deployed-engineer-3/

## About the role

We are seeking a Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) to join Kong’s growing Professional Services organization. This is a highly strategic, customer-facing engineering role focused on helping enterprise customers accelerate adoption of Kong’s API and AI Connectivity platform through hands-on implementation, automation, migration tooling, and solution engineering.

## What they're looking for

- 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

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