
location_onRichards Boulevard, Sacramento, Sacramento County, California, 95814, United States
Kong is the global leader in API and AI governance, uniquely positioned at the center of enterprise transformation. As API traffic now outnumbers human traffic online, a significant portion of that traffic is powered by the Kong platform, the world's most popular API gateway. We are building the infrastructure that powers the agentic era, enabling organizations to secure, manage, accelerate, govern, and monetize the flow of intelligence across APIs and AI models.
We are seeking a Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) to join our 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.
As an FDE, you will operate at the intersection of software engineering, architecture, platform engineering, and customer delivery. You will work directly alongside customer engineering teams to solve complex technical challenges, accelerate migrations, build reusable automation, and deliver production-grade solutions in real-world enterprise environments.
This role is ideal for engineers who enjoy building, coding, solving ambiguous problems, and working directly with customers on mission-critical initiatives involving APIs, AI gateways, service connectivity, modernization, and cloud-native platforms. You will collaborate closely with Solutions Architects, Engagement Managers, Product Engineering, Customer Success, and Product teams to ensure successful customer outcomes while also influencing Kong's product direction based on field experience.
Working at Kong offers a unique opportunity to make a massive impact on Fortune 50/500 customers as they modernize mission-critical systems for the AI era. You will gain exposure to cutting-edge cloud-native technologies, distributed systems, and large-scale enterprise architectures, accelerating your technical and professional growth within a rapidly expanding organization.
Are you ready to unlock intelligence? If you don't think you meet all of the criteria below but are still interested in the job, please apply. Nobody checks every box—we're looking for candidates that are particularly strong in a few areas and have some interest and capabilities in others.
Kong is a global leader trusted by the Fortune 500 and startups alike. We value a strong builder mindset, ownership, and the ability to solve complex technical problems with minimal supervision. We are passionate about innovation, modern infrastructure, and delivering measurable business outcomes for our customers.
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Richards Boulevard, Sacramento, Sacramento County, California, 95814, United States
Sacramento, California
Prior experience working in API Management, Open Source, Middleware, SaaS, or Infrastructure software companies.
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