Consulting Engineer

About the Consulting Engineer Role at MongoDB

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 consulting 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.

This role will be based remotely in the United States, in the Eastern or Central time zones.

Our Ideal Candidate Will Have

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

Position Expectations

As a core member of the MongoDB PS team, you will:

• 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
• Have the ability to travel up to 20% in normal circumstances and when clients are expressing preference to meet in person

Success Measures

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

• Become a field specialist in “everything MongoDB”
• Communicate sophisticated technical proposals simply and convincingly to a wide range of audiences
• Ensure your client’s success with their MongoDB endeavors
• Maintain required level of billable utilization
• Influence MongoDB product development by contributing experience from the field
• 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 database for the AI era, enabling innovators to create, transform, and disrupt industries with software. MongoDB’s unified database platform—the most widely available, globally distributed database 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 database and is available across AWS, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure.

With offices worldwide and nearly 60,000 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.

Key skills/competency

• MongoDB
• Consulting
• Software Development
• Customer Management
• Technical Problem Solving
• System Architecture
• Application Development
• Database Management
• Linux Diagnostics
• Cloud Migration