Senior Forward Deployed Engineer

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 [... source excerpt omitted ...] tion, 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 s [... source excerpt omitted ...] d 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 About MongoDB MongoDB is built for change, empowering our customers and our people to innovate at the speed of the market. We have redefined the data platform for the AI era, enabling builders to create, transform, and disrupt industries wit