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About the Role

Lead Forward Deployed Engineers (FDE) are the most senior technical leaders, owning the overall technical strategy for the FDE domain. They are accountable for the function's operation, scaling, and improvement, setting direction across multiple engagements and teams. This role requires technical depth, organizational strategy, and people leadership to set the technical bar and shape product and engineering priorities.

Responsibilities

Own the FDE organization's overall engagement strategy, serving as the primary technical escalation point across the portfolio for the highest-risk, highest-visibility, and most ambiguous situations.
Act as the trusted technical counterpart to customer executives and internal VP/executive stakeholders on strategic bets, major risks, and cross-portfolio tradeoffs.
Set the technical architecture standards and design principles that govern how the FDE domain builds customer-facing solutions and platform capabilities, turning organization-level ambiguity into coherent multi-quarter technical strategy.
Stay hands-on where it matters most, writing and reviewing code and personally unblocking the hardest technical failures to keep the organization's technical bar grounded in reality.
Own the translation of field-wide patterns into the FDE domain's long-term technical vision, representing that vision to Product and Engineering executive leadership and defending multi-quarter roadmap tradeoffs.
Own the technical growth and career development of FDEs through mentorship, coaching, and calibration of the org's technical bar, and play a lead role in hiring and leveling decisions.
Serve as the final point of technical judgment when the team is deadlocked, and represent the FDE function in executive and cross-org planning forums.

Requirements

10+ years of relevant engineering experience, including a demonstrated track record of hands-on technical leadership in production systems and complex enterprise environments.
Demonstrated success setting technical strategy and direction at an organizational level, shaping how an entire function operates rather than leading initiatives within a single team.
Proven experience designing and directing production-grade integrations, platforms, or distributed systems across multiple concurrent engagements or teams.
Excellent technical judgment under high ambiguity, with a track record of making and being accountable for organization-level tradeoffs between customer impact, speed, maintainability, and risk.
Demonstrated ability to influence and align VP/executive-level stakeholders, internally and at customer organizations, on strategic technical direction.
Track record of developing senior and staff-level engineers through mentorship, coaching, and technical calibration, with willingness to travel up to 30% for executive engagements and technical reviews.

Skills

LLM
agent framework
retrieval
evaluation
production AI systems
hiring bar-raising
leveling frameworks

Location

New York City

Work Type

hybrid

Experience Level

10+ years of relevant engineering experience
senior technical leaders
Staff-level FDE

Salary/Compensations

$137,000—$270,000 USD

Benefits

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
health benefits offerings

About the Company

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 with software.
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.
With offices worldwide and over 67,000 customers, including 75% of the Fortune 100 and AI-native startups, relying on MongoDB for their most important applications, we're powering the next era of software.
Our compass at MongoDB is our Leadership Commitment, guiding how and why we make decisions, show up for each other, and win.
To drive the personal growth and business impact of our employees, we're committed to developing a supportive and enriching culture for everyone.
From employee affinity groups, to fertility assistance and a generous parental leave policy, we value our employees' wellbeing and want to support them along every step of their professional and personal journeys.
Learn more about what it's like to work at MongoDB, and help us make an impact on the world!

Equal Opportunity

MongoDB is committed to providing any necessary accommodations for individuals with disabilities within our application and interview process.
To request an accommodation due to a disability, please inform your recruiter.
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.