Forward Deployed Engineer AI Gateway EMEA

This is not a demo-only SE role, and it's not a ticket-based implementation consultancy. You own technical success for strategic AI opportunities end to end, then take what you learn back into Kong's own engineering team to make the next deal faster.

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.

What you'll do:

• Lead AI, API and agentic technical discovery with customer platform, security and engineering teams.
• Design runtime architecture across models, APIs, MCP and tool access, identity and policy.
• Build prototypes, integrations, evaluation flows and reference implementations that prove Kong governs real production traffic.
• Remove blockers in pilot and production: auth, network, observability, latency and cost.
• Own the technical path from pilot to paid, and stay on it until the workload is running.
• Turn what you build into reusable patterns, so the next AI Gateway deal is faster and cheaper to win.

Full details and application on the official Kong careers page.