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Lead Forward Deployed Engineer

MongoDB · New York City

Posted about 2 months ago

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Is this posting real?

This role has been open
56 days
MongoDB's roles stay open a median of 66 days
Reposted
No
Salary listed
No
0% of MongoDB's roles list one
Ghost-job risk at MongoDB
high
337 stale, 7 reposted of 411 open
Hiring momentum
575 roles opened in the last 90 days
↑ up vs. the prior 90 days
Last confirmed on the employer's board
2026-10-08

Measured from postings appearing on and disappearing from MongoDB's own greenhouse board since 2026-08-03. Full hiring picture for MongoDB.

About this role

The Lead Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) will be responsible for shaping the technical strategy and direction of the FDE organization, managing multiple high-stakes engagements, and serving as the primary technical escalation point. This role involves hands-on technical leadership, mentoring junior engineers, and collaborating with executives to align on strategic technical decisions and tradeoffs.

Our read on this posting3.0out of 5
benefits
5/5
freshness
1/5
career value
4/5
role clarity
5/5
pay transparency
0/5

Scored from the posting itself — how clearly the role is described, how much it says about pay and benefits, and how recently it was listed. Not a judgement of MongoDB as an employer.

What you need

  • 10+ years of relevant engineering experience
  • Demonstrated track record of hands-on technical leadership in production systems and complex enterprise environments
  • Experience setting technical strategy and direction at an organizational level
  • Proven experience designing and directing production-grade integrations, platforms, or distributed systems
  • Excellent technical judgment under high ambiguity
  • Ability to influence and align VP/executive-level stakeholders

Nice to have

  • Experience setting technical strategy for LLM, agent framework, retrieval, evaluation, or production AI systems
  • Prior experience as a Staff-level FDE
  • Experience contributing to hiring bar-raising or leveling frameworks at organizational scale

What you get

  • 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

Worth weighing

  • No specific technologies or programming languages mentioned in the posting
  • The role requires a significant level of ambiguity and high-stakes decision-making
  • Travel requirement of up to 30% may impact work-life balance

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Listed by MongoDB on their greenhouse job board, last confirmed open on 2026-10-08. PitchMeAI is not the employer.

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