MongoDB
Staff Forward Deployed Engineer
New York City · Staff+
Sponsorship not specified$151k-$297kDetected 6 hours ago
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About the role
- Staff Forward Deployed Engineers (FDE) sit at the intersection of enterprise customer environments and a fast-moving internal product.
Responsibilities
- Own the most complex customer engagements and technical workstreams, especially where the problem, solution, or path to production is ambiguous
- Build deep understanding of customer architecture, business goals, constraints, and definition of success, and use that understanding to shape the technical approach rather than only execute within a predefined one
- Lead architectural design for customer-facing solutions and platform capabilities within the FDE domain, balancing hands-on implementation with technical decision-making across multiple teams
- Identify systemic issues in tooling, architecture, or delivery and drive durable fixes that improve outcomes across engagements rather than solving each issue as a one-off
- Use field engagements to surface domain-level patterns, product gaps, and technical risks, and translate them into actionable proposals, design direction, and roadmap input
- Lead focused cross-functional workstreams with Product and Engineering, especially where field experience is necessary to define requirements, resolve tradeoffs, and deliver the right outcome
- Drive consensus on large, abstract, or contentious technical issues that affect multiple teams, and resolve deadlocks through strong judgment, clear reasoning, and durable written artifacts
- Create high-quality technical artifacts such as designs, decision logs, and proposals that align stakeholders and raise the standard for how teams communicate and execute
- Establish or improve mechanisms, standards, and operating practices that help teams make high-quality decisions and deliver resilient solutions independently
- They are senior technical leaders who own ambiguous, high-impact problems that span customer engagements, product direction, and engineering execution.
Requirements
- 9+ years of relevant engineering experience, including hands-on work in production systems and complex customer or enterprise environments
- Strong experience designing and implementing production-grade integrations, platforms, or distributed systems in ambiguous environments
- Strong technical judgment, including the ability to balance customer impact, speed, maintainability, and operational risk
- Ability to shape technical direction based on customer and business context, influence cross-functional stakeholders, and raise the bar for other engineers through mentorship and technical leadership
Nice to have
- Experience with LLMs, agent frameworks, retrieval systems, evaluation frameworks, or deploying AI systems in production enterprise environments
- Experience leading multi-team technical initiatives from problem definition through adoption, especially in environments with significant ambiguity or cross-functional dependency
- MongoDB's unified data platform, the most widely available, globally distributed data platform on the market, helps organizations modernize legacy workloads, embrace innovation, and unleash AI.
- Our cloud-native platform, MongoDB Atlas, is the only globally distributed, multi-cloud data platform and is available across AWS, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure.
- Our compass at MongoDB is our Leadership Commitment, guiding how and why we make decisions, show up for each other, and win.
- It's what makes us MongoDB.
- Learn more about what it's like to work at MongoDB, and help us make an impact on the world!
Compensation
- Salary is one part of MongoDB's total compensation and benefits package.
- Please note, the base salary range listed below and the benefits in this paragraph are only applicable to U.S.-based candidates.
- MongoDB's base salary range for this role in the U.S. is:
Benefits
- Influence short- to mid-term technical vision for the FDE domain, partnering with Product and Engineering leaders to balance customer impact, time-to-market, technical debt, and long-term platform quality
- Other benefits for eligible employees may include:
Company info
- They are accountable not only for getting customers to production, but for using what is learned in the field to shape reusable product capabilities, technical strategy, and delivery quality across multiple teams.
- We are looking to speak to candidates who are based in New York City, NY for our hybrid working model.
- With offices worldwide and over 67,000 customers, including 75% of the Fortune 100 and AI-native startups, relying on MongoDB for their most important applications, we're powering the next era of software.
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