Senior Forward Deployed Engineer
MongoDBDatabase Software company
GurugramSenior
In-Q-Tel
Intel Capital
Sequoia Capital
Flybridge Capital Partners
New Enterprise Associates (NEA)
Red Hat
Software Engineering
About the role
TL;DR
Design, build, and troubleshoot production solutions at the intersection of customer environments and product.
- •Senior Forward Deployed Engineers (FDE) sit at the intersection of enterprise customer environments and a fast-moving internal product.
- •They partner directly with customers to design, build, troubleshoot, and improve production solutions, and they are ultimately accountable for helping customers get to production.
- •This role is best suited for engineers who want to own technical outcomes end to end: understanding what a customer is trying to build, shipping the integration, and feeding learnings back into the product roadmap.
- •Key Responsibilities Serve as the primary technical owner for customer engagements from initial discovery through production rollout.
- •Build the connectors, pipelines, and supporting tooling needed to make the platform work inside real enterprise environments.
- •Capture product feedback with precision, including logs, reproduction steps, and a clear proposed path forward.
- •Partner closely with product and engineering teams to help turn field patterns into reusable product capabilities.
- •8 years of engineering experience required.
- •Hands-on production engineering experience, including writing code, debugging failures, and implementing fixes directly.
- •Engineering experience in AI and agentic development.
- •Experience with developing and deploying software within enterprise environments.
- •Strong troubleshooting and code review skills, including the ability to identify root causes and drive resolution.
Required skills
PythonJavaScriptBashNode.jsMicroservicesAWSGoogle CloudAzureDockerKubernetesCI/CDGitLinuxREST APILLMs
Nice-to-have skills
LangChain
Domain expertise
developer-toolsai
Tech stack
PythonJavaScriptBashNode.jsMicroservicesAWSGoogle CloudAzureDockerKubernetesCI/CDGitLinuxREST APILLMsLangChain