Staff Forward Deployed Engineer

About the role

Forward Deployed Engineering at MongoDB builds and delivers production‑grade integrations and platform solutions directly within enterprise customer environments. The Staff Forward Deployed Engineer leads ambiguous, high‑impact engagements, designs architecture, writes production code, and translates field insights into reusable product capabilities while mentoring engineers. Based in Gurugram, hybrid model (3 days onsite, remote flexibility) with up to 30% travel to customer sites.

What you’ll do

• Own complex customer engagements and technical workstreams
• Shape technical approach based on customer architecture and business goals
• Act as trusted technical counterpart to customer and internal leaders
• Lead architectural design and hands‑on implementation for customer‑facing solutions
• Write and review production‑quality code and ensure operational readiness
• Identify systemic issues and drive durable fixes across engagements
• Influence product roadmap using field‑learned patterns and insights
• Mentor senior engineers and promote best practices

What you’ll bring

• 9+ years of engineering experience
• Hands‑on production systems in complex enterprise environments
• Proven leadership of multi‑team technical initiatives
• Design and implementation of distributed systems or platform integrations
• Strong technical judgment balancing speed, maintainability, and risk
• Ability to travel up to 30% to customer sites

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