Forward Deployed Engineer, Industry Solutions
Gurugram · 5+ years experience · Full-time · Hybrid · Posted Sep 15, 2026
At a glance
- Experience
- 5+ years experience
- Employment
- Full-time
- Workplace
- Hybrid
- Location
- Gurugram
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. To request an accommodation due to a disability, please inform your recruiter.
- MongoDB is an equal opportunities employer.
About the role
- The Forward Deployed Engineer in the Industry ISV Practice works directly with independent software vendors to integrate MongoDB capabilities into their products.
- This hands-on role involves working within partner codebases to deliver production-ready integrations, migrations, and product capabilities.
- The position requires regular travel and on-site collaboration with partners to ensure maintainable code and knowledge transfer.
Responsibilities
- Embed with ISV engineering teams to understand product architecture, data models, and deployment environments.
- Design and build MongoDB-backed product capabilities including integrations, data models, indexes, and persistence layers.
- Implement coexistence and migration solutions such as synchronization, CDC, dual writes, and application refactoring.
- Validate production-ready solutions for performance, scalability, resilience, observability, and security.
- Enable partner engineers through collaborative development, code reviews, and documentation.
- Capture reusable implementation patterns and lessons learned to accelerate future engagements.
Requirements
- 5+ years of hands-on backend engineering experience building and operating production applications.
- Strong application-side expertise with MongoDB, including data modeling, indexing, transactions, and change streams.
- Application-level fluency with at least one major relational database.
- 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.
- Experience with APIs, distributed systems, containers, and cloud or self-managed deployment environments.
- Experience with SaaS and product engineering, including multi-tenancy and versioned schemas.
- Willingness to spend significant time on-site with ISV partners and travel within the region.
Preferred qualifications
- Experience working for or with an ISV, or in a forward-deployed, embedded, or partner-engineering role.
- Familiarity with event-driven and microservices architectures and technologies such as Kafka.
- Experience with performance engineering, observability, resilience, or production-readiness reviews.
- Exposure to security and compliance requirements for ISVs serving regulated industries.
- Experience creating reusable tooling, reference implementations, or technical documentation.
- MongoDB certification or familiarity with MongoDB’s broader product portfolio.
Benefits
- Employee affinity groups
- Fertility assistance
- Parental leave policy
Workplace
- Role is based in Gurugram.
- Hybrid working model.
- Requires regular travel and time on-site with ISV partners.
Skills
- MongoDB
- Java
- C#
- .NET
- Node.js
- TypeScript
- Python
- Go
- Kafka
- Kubernetes
- AWS
- Google Cloud
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- Microsoft Azure
- CDC
