[Hiring] Forward Deployed Engineer @MongoDB

Role Description

As a Forward Deployed Engineer in our Industry ISV Practice, you will work directly with independent software vendors (ISVs) and their engineering organizations to build MongoDB capabilities into their products. This is a hands-on application engineering role.

• Embed with ISV engineering teams, adapting to their codebase, practices, release cadence, and constraints while understanding their product architecture, industry context, data model, and deployment environment.
• Design and build MongoDB-backed product capabilities, including integrations, data models, indexes, queries, persistence layers, migration tooling, and support for MongoDB alongside relational database editions.
• Design and implement coexistence and migration solutions, including synchronization, change data capture (CDC), dual writes, consistency, application refactoring, validation, and controlled cutover.
• Design and validate production-ready solutions for performance, scalability, resilience, observability, security, and operational readiness across MongoDB Atlas, Enterprise Advanced, Kubernetes-based private clouds, and self-managed or restricted on-premises environments.
• Enable partner engineers through collaborative development, code reviews, documentation, and knowledge sharing, while working with internal technical teams to resolve design questions and establish support boundaries.
• Capture reusable implementation patterns, tooling, product gaps, and lessons learned to accelerate future partner engagements.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of hands-on backend engineering experience building and operating production applications.
• Strong application-side expertise with MongoDB, including data modeling, access patterns, aggregation, indexing, transactions, change streams, and a clear understanding of query and transaction semantics.
• Application-level fluency with at least one major relational database, including relational data modeling, access patterns, database drivers or ORMs, indexing, transactions, query planning, and transaction-isolation assumptions.
• Experience integrating a new database into a large production codebase and migrating production workloads, including persistence abstractions, data synchronization, dual-write or CDC patterns, application refactoring, validation, and incremental rollout.
• Strong coding ability in at least two languages such as Java, C#/.NET, Node.js/TypeScript, Python, or Go, plus experience with APIs, distributed systems, containers, and cloud or self-managed deployment environments.
• Experience with SaaS and product engineering, including multi-tenancy, tenant isolation, versioned schemas, and backward compatibility.
• Willingness to spend significant time on-site with ISV partners and travel within the region.

Requirements

• Experience working for or with an ISV, or in a forward-deployed, embedded, resident-engineer, or partner-engineering role.
• Familiarity with event-driven and microservices architectures and technologies such as Kafka, as well as performance engineering, observability, resilience, or production-readiness reviews.
• Exposure to security and compliance requirements for ISVs serving regulated industries.
• Experience creating reusable tooling, reference implementations, integration components, or technical documentation, along with MongoDB certification, Atlas experience, or familiarity with MongoDB’s broader product portfolio.

Benefits

• Equity participation in the employee stock purchase program.
• Flexible paid time off.
• 20 weeks fully-paid gender-neutral parental leave.
• Fertility and adoption assistance.
• Registered Retirement Savings Plan (RRSP) with employer match.
• Mental health counseling.
• Backup child and elder care.
• Health, dental, and vision benefits offerings.