Forward Deployed Engineer, Industry Solutions

Role overview

Forward Deployed Engineer, Industry Solutions at MongoDB

You will work in the partner’s codebase, languages, engineering practices, and release process to deliver production-ready integrations, migrations, and product capabilities.

The role requires regular travel and time on-site with ISV partners during key phases of the engagement.</p>

<p>In this role, you will</p>

Required qualifications

• <li>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</li>

Employment details

• <p>We are looking to speak to candidates who are based in Gurugram for our hybrid working model.</p>
• Location: Gurugram

Application details

• <p>This is a hands-on application engineering role.
• <li>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</li>
• <li>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</li>

About the employer

• <p>MongoDB is the modern database platform and consistently voted the <a href="https://www.mongodb.com/blog/post/stack-overflow-research-most-wanted-database">#1 most wanted database</a>, preferred by developers.
• <p>To support this growth, we are expanding our <a href="https://www.mongodb.com/blog/post/transitioning-teacher-mongodbs-new-enterprise-modernization-team-meet-gabriela-preiss">Industry Solutions Team</a> (IST), a flexible, globally distributed organization that helps customers and partners modernize applications and data platforms with MongoDB.</p>
• <li>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</li>
• <li>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</li>
• <li>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</li>
• <li>Broaden your perspective on how data-intensive products evolve and develop the judgment to translate diverse product and operational requirements into practical MongoDB solutions</li>
• <p>MongoDB is built for change, empowering our customers and our people to innovate at the speed of the market.
• 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.</p>
• <p>With offices worldwide and over 67,000 customers, including AI-native startups and approximately 75% of the Fortune 100, relying on MongoDB for their most important applications, we’re powering the next era of software.</p>
• <p>Our compass at MongoDB is our <a href="https://www.mongodb.com/company">Leadership Commitment,</a> guiding how and why we make decisions, show up for each other, and win.
• It’s what makes us MongoDB. </p>
• <p>To drive the personal growth and business impact of our employees, we’re committed to developing a supportive and enriching culture for everyone. <a href="https://www.mongodb.com/company/blog/culture/employee-benefits-that-make-a-difference-at-mongodb">From employee affinity groups, to fertility assistance and a generous parental leave policy</a>, we value our employees’ wellbeing and want to support them along every step of their professional and personal journeys.<a href="https://www.mongodb.com/blog/channel/culture"> Learn more about what it’s like to work at MongoDB</a>, and help us make an impact on the world!</p>
• <p>MongoDB is committed to providing any necessary accommodations for individuals with disabilities within our application and interview process.
• <p>MongoDB is an equal opportunities employer.</p>

Additional role details

• MongoDB continues to attract the most demanding and innovative companies and development teams in enterprise software.</p>
• <p>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.
• The solutions you help build should leave the partner with maintainable code and knowledge, while creating reusable patterns that can accelerate future partner engagements.</p>
• You will spend time understanding existing products built on relational databases, designing practical MongoDB approaches, writing production code, and working alongside partner engineers through implementation and rollout.
• <h3>What you’ll do at MongoDB</h3>
• <ul>
• <li>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</li>
• <li>Design and implement coexistence and migration solutions, including synchronization, change data capture (CDC), dual writes, consistency, application refactoring, validation, and controlled cutover</li>
• <li>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</li>
• <li>Capture reusable implementation patterns, tooling, product gaps, and lessons learned to accelerate future partner engagements</li>
• </ul>
• <h3>As an ideal candidate, you will have</h3>
• <li>5+ years of hands-on backend engineering experience building and operating production applications</li>
• <li>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</li>
• <li>Experience with SaaS and product engineering, including multi-tenancy, tenant isolation, versioned schemas, and backward compatibility, together with the ability to work effectively in unfamiliar codebases and explain technical trade-offs clearly</li>
• <li>Willingness to spend significant time on-site with ISV partners and travel within the region</li>
• <h3>As an ideal candidate, you may also have</h3>
• <li>Experience working for or with an ISV, or in a forward-deployed, embedded, resident-engineer, or partner-engineering role</li>
• <li>Familiarity with event-driven and microservices architectures and technologies such as Kafka, as well as performance engineering, observability, resilience, or production-readiness reviews</li>
• <li>Exposure to security and compliance requirements for ISVs serving regulated industries</li>
• <h3>What you will learn</h3>
• <li>Gain practical experience modernizing applications and delivering MongoDB solutions for partner products across different industries, including coexistence and migration scenarios in cloud-native environments, while developing reusable patterns and your technical and communication skills</li>
• <h3>About MongoDB</h3>
• We have redefined the data platform for the AI era, enabling builders to create, transform, and disrupt industries with software.
• To request an accommodation due to a disability, please inform your recruiter.</p>
• <p><em>Req ID -3273528250</em></p>