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Senior Forward Deployed Engineer

Join MongoDB as a Senior Forward Deployed Engineer to drive customer success and technical integration in enterprise environments.

Location
United States
Compensation
$126k–$248k/yr
Level
senior
Type
full time · Hybrid

Posted by employer 2 months ago

First seen on Joblaze 2 months ago

Last verified on the company career page 3 days ago

AI in the day-to-day

Experience with LLMs, agent frameworks, or deploying AI systems in production.

Requirements

Experience
5–8 years

Not disclosed in this posting: visa sponsorship.

Benefits

401k Match Equity/Stock Options Health Insurance Parental Leave

Joblaze summary

In the role of Senior Forward Deployed Engineer at MongoDB, the individual will engage directly with enterprise customers to design, implement, and optimize production solutions, ensuring successful integration of the platform within diverse environments. Key skills include hands-on coding, troubleshooting, and experience with enterprise software deployment, particularly in AI contexts. This position is ideal for seasoned engineers with a strong background in production engineering and a desire to influence product development through customer feedback. MongoDB fosters a collaborative culture, emphasizing personal growth and innovation.

Joblaze insights

  • Listed about 2 months ago — first seen on Joblaze August 1, 2026. Last confirmed on MongoDB's careers page October 9, 2026.
  • Salary band is below the typical range for AI/ML roles (median ~$190,900).
  • Starts above 9% of 141 comparable senior ai/ml roles in United States that list AI/ML we track (median $180,000 across 54 companies). See AI/ML salary trends
  • AI/ML appears in 42.2% of 555 comparable senior ai/ml roles in United States.

Quick facts

Is the Senior Forward Deployed Engineer role remote?
It's hybrid — MongoDB expects some on-site time in United States.
What's the salary range?
MongoDB lists $126,000–$248,000 for this role.
How much experience is required?
5–8 years of relevant experience for this Senior Forward Deployed Engineer role.
Where is the role based?
MongoDB is hiring for this position in United States.
What's the tech stack?
Joblaze extracted these technologies from the posting: AI/ML, Integration, Production Engineering, Software Development.
What seniority level is this role?
MongoDB targets senior candidates for this position.
Is this full-time or contract?
Full-time for this Senior Forward Deployed Engineer role at MongoDB.

From the original posting

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.

This role will be based remotely in the United States (East Coast).

Responsibilities

Customer success

  • Serve as the primary technical owner for customer engagements from initial discovery through production rollout
  • Understand each customer's architecture, constraints, and definition of success, and drive toward that outcome
  • Manage expectations, communicate risks clearly, and help customers navigate technical decisions with confidence

Technical integration

  • Build the connectors, pipelines, and supporting tooling needed to make the platform work inside real enterprise environments
  • Write production-quality code, troubleshoot issues, and implement fixes directly in active workstreams
  • Work effectively within customer environments that have different stacks, infrastructure, and integration constraints

Product feedback loop

  • Capture product feedback with precision, including logs, reproduction steps, and a clear proposed path forward
  • Use customer engagements to identify product gaps, surface recurring patterns, and help improve the product roadmap
  • Document technical decisions and tradeoffs clearly so product and engineering teams can extend the work

Workstream collaboration

  • Partner closely with product and engineering teams to help turn field patterns into reusable product capabilities
  • Contribute directly in focused workstreams by helping drive technical design, implementation, and delivery
  • Make sound engineering decisions under pressure while building and iterating quickly

Engagement management

  • Coordinate independently across internal teams and customer stakeholders to keep delivery moving
  • Communicate clearly across technical, business, and executive audiences

Qualifications

Basic qualifications

  • 5 - 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
  • Experience shipping production solutions at scale that customers relied on
  • Experience building integrations across existing systems and infrastructure
  • Strong troubleshooting and code review skills, including the ability to identify root causes and drive resolution
  • Willingness and ability to travel up to 30% to customer sites as needed for on-site engagements, technical reviews, and presentations

Preferred qualifications

  • Experience with LLMs, agent frameworks, or deploying AI systems in production
  • Prior experience in an FDE or similar forward-deployed engineering role

MongoDB, Inc. provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type and makes all hiring decisions without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.

Req ID: 2273506591

MongoDB’s base salary range for this role is posted below. Compensation at the time of offer is unique to each candidate and based on a variety of factors such as skill set, experience, qualifications, and work location. Salary is one part of MongoDB’s total compensation and benefits package. Other benefits for eligible employees may include: equity, participation in the employee stock purchase program, flexible paid time off, 20 weeks fully-paid gender-neutral parental leave, fertility and adoption assistance, 401(k) plan, mental health counseling, access to transgender-inclusive health insurance coverage, and health benefits offerings. Please note, the base salary range listed below and the benefits in this paragraph are only applicable to U.S.-based candidates.

MongoDB’s base salary range for this role in the U.S. is:
$126,000—$248,000 USD

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