Staff Solutions Engineer

Kong · South Korea · All Cost Center

senior software engineering Solutions Engineer tech_leadership · Posted Mar 5, 2026

About this role

Kong is hiring a senior-level Solutions Engineer in the software engineering function based in South Korea. The posting calls out experience with DevOps, Kubernetes, Docker, LLMs.

Role
Solutions Engineer
Function
software engineering
Level
senior
Track
Tech leadership
Employment
Full-time
Location
South Korea
Department
All Cost Center
Posted
Mar 5, 2026

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Job description

from Kong careers

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.

What You’ll Be Doing:

  • Support field sales in helping customers understand the value of the Kong API and AI Connectivity Management platform

  • Understand customer requirements and how the Kong platform can help. Grow trusted client relationships throughout the entire sales lifecycle, from initial product reviews to production

  • Support PoCs and PoVs throughout the entire evaluation process

  • Ensure 100% customer satisfaction across the assigned set of accounts

  • Prioritise customer needs and coordinate with support, product, and engineering teams to help support customer needs

  • Create technical documentation for DevOps, implementations, and services engagements

  • Support top-of-funnel marketing by creating blogs, webinars, and participating in trade shows and field events.

  • And any additional tasks required by the manager or based on business needs.

What You’ll Bring:

  • 7+ years of software engineer and/or sales engineer management experience at SaaS, Open Source or Enterprise Software company, experience in API management and/or integration will be an added advantage.

    This is an excerpt. Read the full job description on Kong careers →
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