Description
MongoDB is seeking a Forward Deployed Engineer to join its Industry Solutions Team (IST), a flexible, globally distributed organisation. As a Forward Deployed Engineer in the Industry ISV Practice, you will work directly with independent software vendors (ISVs) and their engineering organisations to build MongoDB capabilities into their products.
You will embed with ISV engineering teams, adapting to their codebase, practices, release cadence, and constraints while understanding their product architecture, industry context, data model, and deployment environment. Your responsibilities will include:
- Designing and building MongoDB-backed product capabilities, including integrations, data models, indexes, queries, persistence layers, migration tooling, and support for MongoDB alongside relational database editions
- Designing and implementing coexistence and migration solutions, including synchronization, change data capture (CDC), dual writes, consistency, application refactoring, validation, and controlled cutover
- Enabling partner engineers through collaborative development, code reviews, documentation, and knowledge sharing, while working with internal technical teams to resolve design questions and establish support boundaries
- Capturing reusable implementation patterns, tooling, product gaps, and lessons learned to accelerate future partner engagements
The ideal candidate will have:
- 5+ years of hands-on backend engineering experience building and operating production applications
- Strong application-side expertise with MongoDB, including data modeling, access patterns, aggregation, indexing, transactions, change streams, and a clear understanding of query and transaction semantics
- Application-level fluency with at least one major relational database, including relational data modeling, access patterns, database drivers or ORMs, indexing, transactions, query planning, and transaction-isolation assumptions
- Experience integrating a new database into a large production codebase and migrating production workloads
- Strong coding ability in at least two languages such as Java, C#/.NET, Node.js/TypeScript, Python, or Go, plus experience with APIs, distributed systems, containers, and cloud or self-managed deployment environments
MongoDB offers a base salary range of $125,000-$220,000 CAD for this role in Canada, along with a comprehensive benefits package.