Staff Forward Deployed Engineer
MongoDBDatabase Software company
GurugramLead
In-Q-Tel
Intel Capital
Sequoia Capital
Flybridge Capital Partners
New Enterprise Associates (NEA)
Red Hat
Software Engineering
About the role
TL;DR
Senior technical leader driving customer success and product influence.
- •Staff Forward Deployed Engineers (FDE) are senior technical leaders at the intersection of enterprise customer environments and MongoDB's product.
- •They own ambiguous, high-impact problems, driving customer success and influencing product direction.
- •Key Responsibilities Own complex customer engagements and technical workstreams.
- •Lead architectural design and hands-on implementation for customer-facing solutions.
- •Translate field insights into product improvements and technical strategy.
- •Drive systemic fixes for tooling, architecture, or delivery issues.
- •Requirements 9+ years of relevant engineering experience in production systems and complex environments.
- •Demonstrated success leading multi-team technical initiatives.
- •Strong experience designing and implementing production-grade integrations and distributed systems.
- •Ability to shape technical direction, influence stakeholders, and mentor engineers.
Required skills
KubernetesCI/CDAWSGoogle CloudAzureTerraformDockerGitLinuxPythonJavaScriptJavaBashNode.jsLLMs
Nice-to-have skills
LangChainHugging FaceOpenAI APIAnthropic APIGemini API
Tech stack
PythonJavaScriptJavaGoBashNode.jsSpringExpress.NETAWSGoogle CloudAzureTerraformDockerKubernetesCI/CDGitHub ActionsJenkinsAnsiblePrometheusGrafanaDatadogNginxGitLinuxJiraConfluencePostmanSwaggerOpenAPI
