# Senior Staff 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: Senior
- Location: Texas, United States
- Work setup: Remote
- Pay: $192K to $274K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-09-09
- Apply by: 2026-10-24
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/kong/ef91ea5c-d9f7-40b4-a62d-62453cf942d2
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/kong-senior-staff-forward-deployed-engineer/

## 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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