Senior Consulting Engineer

MongoDB; California (MO); On-site; USD 123,000 - 242,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

equity

employee stock purchase program

flexible paid time off

20 weeks parental leave

fertility assistance

adoption assistance

401(k) plan

mental health counseling

transgender-inclusive health insurance

health benefits

Job summary

MongoDB is actively seeking a Senior Consulting Engineer for its Professional Services team. You will partner with customers across industries to design, implement, and operate MongoDB solutions, including cloud migrations and modernization.

Expect travel up to 15% for short customer trips and collaboration with cross-functional teams to shape architectures and best practices. The ideal candidate has 10+ years in software development/consulting, deep database and cloud experience, and strong

Qualifications

• 10+ years of software development/consulting/support experience
• Proficiency in Java, C#, Python, Node.js, Ruby, or Go
• Experience with databases such as MongoDB, Oracle, MS SQL Server, PostgreSQL
• Familiarity with Linux diagnostics and tuning; Windows tuning knowledge is a plus
• Familiarity with enterprise-scale software architectures, development methodologies, and deployment/operations
• Excellent analytical, diagnostic and problem-solving skills
• High motivation for a role combining deep technical and customer-management dimensions
• Confidence speaking and presenting in a collaborative customer setting
• Willingness to travel up to 15% for short customer trips

Responsibilities

• Contribute to customer implementations across the full application lifecycle: portfolio assessment, planning, design, deployment architectures, development and build, integration and release, testing, production operations, optimization, and best practices adoption
• Deliver customer classroom-based training to architect, developer, and operations roles
• Work as part of a delivery team with consulting engineers, project managers, and account teams
• Cultivate MongoDB reputation as a trusted advisor to guide customers into the future
• Partner with Product and Engineering to influence the MongoDB product roadmap
• Become a field expert in "everything MongoDB"
• Communicate complex proposals clearly to diverse audiences
• Influence product development by sharing field experience
• Ensure client success with MongoDB initiatives
• Maintain required billable utilization
• Contribute to external client communications about product roadmap
• Continuously improve oneself, products, and the team

Skills

10+ years experience

Java

C#

Python

Node.js

Ruby

Go

MongoDB

Linux tuning

Windows tuning

Analytical skills

Problem-solving

Travel readiness

Job description

MongoDB Professional Services (PS) works with customers of all shapes and sizes, in all verticals, from tier-1 banks to small web startups, on a variety of exciting use cases. This role solves technically sophisticated problems, gains incredible cross-stack experience, works with top-notch people in the business, networks with industry leaders, and sees new places – all in a day’s work!

MongoDB PS exists to support the development of our customers’ vision, accelerate customers’ time to value, and drive a multitude of customer adoption scenarios – from building new solutions to modernizing legacy applications or migrating to cloud. Our consulting solutions ensure that organizations get the best out of MongoDB.

We’re looking for someone with

• 10+ years of software development/consulting/support experience, preferably in a number of distinct industries/verticals
• Competence in at least one of the following languages (in no particular order): Java, C#, Python, Node.js (JavaScript), Ruby, Go
• Experience with databases such as MongoDB, Oracle, MS SQL Server, PostgreSQL
• Familiarity with Linux diagnostics and tuning; Windows tuning knowledge is a plus
• Familiarity with enterprise-scale software architectures, application development methodologies, and software deployment and operations
• Excellent analytical, diagnostic skills, and problem-solving skills
• High motivation for a role that combines deep technical and customer-management dimensions
• Confidence speaking and presenting in a collaborative customer setting
• Should be capable and comfortable with frequent travel for short trips to customer sites during the working week (up to 15%)

What you will do in this role

• Contribute to customer implementations at any or all phases of the application lifecycle: portfolio assessment, application planning and design, deployment architectures, development and build, integration and release configuration, system testing, production operations, application optimization, and best practices adoption
• Deliver customer classroom-based training to architect, developer, and operations roles
• Work as part of a wider delivery team comprising fellow consulting engineers, project managers, and account teams
• Cultivate your individual MongoDB reputation as a trusted advisor to guide MongoDB and our customers into the future
• Partner with Product and Engineering teams to influence the direction of the MongoDB product roadmap

As a Senior Consulting Engineer, you will be successful in this role when you can execute the following

• Become a field expert in “everything MongoDB”
• Communicate complex technical proposals simply and convincingly to a wide range of audiences
• Gain a reputation as a trusted advisor with your clients, large and small
• Ensure your client’s success with their MongoDB endeavors
• Maintain the required level of billable utilization
• Influence MongoDB product development by contributing experience from the field
• Successfully communicate the product roadmap to external clients
• Constantly work on improving yourself, our products, and our team

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 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 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.

Our compass at MongoDB is our Leadership Commitment, guiding how and why we make decisions, show up for each other, and win. It’s what makes us MongoDB.

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.

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.

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

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:

$123,000—$242,000 USD