kong
Staff Solutions Engineer - New York
At a Glance
- Location
- New York, United States
- Employment
- FULL_TIME
- Experience
- 7+ years
- Compensation
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- Department
- Kong
- Posted
- 2026-07-29
Key Requirements
Required Skills
Domain Knowledge
- Cloud
- Engineering
- SaaS
Requirements
7+ years of software engineering and/or solutions engineering experience at a SaaS, open source, or enterprise software company.
Proven track record owning complex, enterprise-level deals with multiple technical and executive stakeholders.
Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, and cloud-native platforms.
Experience with REST and GraphQL APIs, CI/CD pipelines, and API security patterns (OAuth2, OIDC, mTLS).
Hands-on experience with AI-assisted development tooling — Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, OpenAI Codex, or equivalent is required.
Working knowledge of AI/LLM architectures, including model routing, rate limiting, semantic caching, and prompt governance.
Responsibilities
Are you ready to sit at the epicenter of the API and AI connectivity revolution?
As a Staff Solutions Engineer at Kong, you won’t just be selling a platform — you’ll be a trusted technical advisor helping the world’s most innovative enterprises architect secure, scalable API ecosystems while navigating the transition into the agentic AI era.
Kong sits at the intersection of API management and AI connectivity, and you’ll be the person who makes that story real for customers.
Support field sales in helping customers understand the value of the Kong API and AI connectivity platform.
Conduct discovery conversations to understand customer requirements and map them to Kong solutions, from initial product reviews through to production.
Support POCs throughout the entire evaluation process, owning technical validation and stakeholder alignment.
About the Company
Kong Inc., a leading developer of API and AI connectivity technologies, is building the infrastructure that powers the agentic era. Trusted by the Fortune 500 and startups alike, Kong's unified API and AI platform, Kong Konnect, enables organizations to secure, manage, accelerate, govern, and monetize the flow of intelligence across APIs and AI models. For more information, visit
www.konghq.com
.