Principal Technologist

MongoDB; United States; Remote; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a forward-thinking company as a Principal Technologist, where you will drive the adoption of innovative database solutions among strategic customers. This role offers the opportunity to engage with top-tier executives, influence technical direction, and contribute to thought leadership in the industry. You will work with a high-performing team, leveraging your extensive experience in technical consulting and solutions architecture to modernize legacy applications and build next-generation AI-powered solutions. Embrace the chance to grow your personal brand while making a significant impact in the world of technology.

Benefits

Competitive salary

Generous parental leave policy

Fertility assistance

Employee affinity groups

Supportive culture

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in Principal-level technical consulting roles.
• Deep hands-on experience with enterprise-scale RDBMS and MongoDB.

Responsibilities

• Engage executives at Fortune 1000 companies to promote MongoDB solutions.
• Develop technical expertise in MongoDB's products and industry trends.

Skills

Technical Consulting

Solutions Architecture

Database Solutions

Enterprise Project Ownership

Communication Skills

Cloud Computing

Performance Tuning

Java

C#

Python

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science

Advanced Degree in Engineering

Job description

MongoDB’s mission is to empower innovators to create, transform, and disrupt industries by unleashing the power of software and data. We enable organizations of all sizes to easily build, scale, and run modern applications by helping them modernize legacy workloads, embrace innovation, and unleash AI. Our industry-leading developer data platform, MongoDB Atlas, is the only globally distributed, multi-cloud database and is available in more than 115 regions across AWS, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure. Atlas allows customers to build and run applications anywhere—on premises, or across cloud providers. With offices worldwide and over 175,000 new developers signing up to use MongoDB every month, it’s no wonder that leading organizations, like Samsung and Toyota, trust MongoDB to build next-generation, AI-powered applications.

Position Summary

We are seeking an exceptional Principal Technologist to join our team. This pivotal role will be responsible for driving the adoption of MongoDB among our most strategic customers by engaging senior technical leadership to position MongoDB as the ideal solution for modernizing legacy applications and building modern, GenAI applications.

This role can be based remotely in the United States.

Key Responsibilities

1. Engage and influence executives and technical decision-makers at Fortune 1000 companies and create awareness and understanding of our products.
2. Aligned with Sales, work with our Strategic Developer Relations team (comprised of senior engineers with deep MongoDB experience) to develop and deliver technical engagements and targeted education sessions.
3. Develop and maintain deep technical expertise in MongoDB's product and solutions as well as industry trends and competitors' offerings.
4. Gather feedback and assess customer sentiment to influence product roadmap and advocate for our customers.
5. Represent MongoDB at industry conferences, trade shows, and technical events.
6. Contribute to thought leadership through blog posts, whitepapers, and speaking engagements.

Qualifications

1. 10+ years of technical consulting experience in Principal-level roles in Solutions Architecture, Developer Advocacy, Software Architecture, or Enterprise Consulting.
2. Recognized technical leader with deep hands-on experience implementing enterprise-scale RDBMS, MongoDB, or other database solutions.
3. Proven track record of enterprise project ownership and team leadership, preferably in modernization initiatives involving migration of legacy database technology platforms (e.g., Oracle, DB2, Sybase, etc.).
4. Excellent communication and presentation skills, with the ability to explain complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences.
5. Strong understanding of database architectures, distributed systems, and cloud computing concepts, with experience in distributed systems design, including scalability, fault tolerance, and consistency models.
6. Experience in performance tuning, scalability, and high availability designs for large-scale database implementations.
7. Familiarity with modern application development frameworks and current proficiency with at least one of: Java, C#, Python.
8. Bachelor's or advanced degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field, or equivalent experience.

Additional Requirements

1. There are two components to the role: in-person engagements and the ability to scale your influence through published content. We are looking for someone that can travel extensively (up to 50% of the time), but an outsized online presence can mitigate against this need for travel.
2. Exceptional problem-solving skills and the ability to think strategically.
3. Excellent interpersonal skills and the ability to build and nurture relationships with C-level executives and senior technical decision-makers.

What We Offer

1. Ability to exert broad industry influence and build your personal brand.
2. The chance to go deep on MongoDB, learning the most successful next generation database platform and seeing first-hand how the world's biggest companies use it for their most demanding applications.
3. Opportunity to influence technical direction and strategic decisions and some of the world's largest companies.
4. Competitive salary and benefits package.
5. Focused, high-performing team and close collaboration with your peers across the organization.

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!

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.