Deployed Engineer, Tyk
+ Employee share scheme
Open-source API gateway & management platform
Open for applications
Open-source API gateway & management platform
101-200 employees
Open for applications
+ Employee share scheme
101-200 employees
Company mission
To connect every system in the world.
Role
Who you are
- Strong engineering background across APIs, distributed systems, and cloud-native platforms
- Experience delivering complex technical projects in customer environments
- Comfortable working independently in unfamiliar or high-pressure environments
- Strong communication skills with the ability to explain technical trade-offs clearly
- Pragmatic problem solver with a focus on quality, scalability, and customer outcomes
- Willingness to travel and work flexibly to support customer needs
- Residency in Western Europe or Americas
What the job involves
- We’re looking for a hands-on, customer-focused Deployed Engineer to lead complex technical engagements for strategic customers
- This is a deeply technical delivery role where you’ll work closely with customer engineering teams to deploy, scale, and optimise Tyk in real-world production environments
- From large-scale migrations to mission-critical implementations, you’ll help customers solve hard problems and deliver meaningful outcomes
- You’ll operate as a trusted technical partner — sometimes embedded within customer teams — ensuring projects move forward with clarity, continuity, and technical excellence
- Leading complex deployments, migrations, and strategic customer initiatives in the realm of API Management, Infrastructure, GitOps, and more
- Designing complex, scalable implementation architectures and solving tactical technical challenges
- Working directly with customer’s engineering teams in building out their lower and production environments
- Delivering Professional Services engagements and supporting strategic accounts
- Identifying risks, removing blockers, and driving successful delivery outcomes
- Collaborating across Customer Success, Product, Engineering, and Sales teams
- Feeding real-world customer insight back into product and platform improvements
- Dives deep into product & code to identify root causes, problem solve solutions and if necessary, engineer pull requests to unblock the customer
Our take
Tyk offers an API management platform that enables companies to securely share data with third parties, facilitating the sale of services through non-direct channels. This solution helps businesses harness the power of their APIs on a large scale while ensuring data security and accessibility.
The platform acts as both a management and security layer between APIs, simplifying the process for organisations to manage access. By providing a robust security framework, Tyk ensures that only authorised users can interact with an organisation's APIs, thereby protecting sensitive data.
With millions of transactions processed daily for thousands of organisations, including notable clients like AXA, Cisco, Trip Advisor, Starbucks, Domino's, Sephora, and the UK Ministry of Justice, Tyk has established itself as a trusted leader in API management.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
Company
Funding (2 rounds)
Sep 2021
$35m
SERIES B
Apr 2019
$5.3m
SERIES A
Total funding: $40.3m
Company benefits
- Unlimited paid holidays
- Fully remote
- Flexible hours
- Generous parental leave
- Employee share scheme
- Volunteering days
- Sabbatical
- Employee wellbeing
Company HQ
Shoreditch, London
Leadership
Martin Buhr
(Founder & CEO)Previously the Head of Technology and Product Development at Lucky Voice for 3 years and a Technical Architect at LBi for 1 year.
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