Principal Staff Developer Advocate

Summary

Join MongoDB as a Principal Technologist and drive the adoption of our platform among strategic customers. This remote role involves engaging senior technical leadership at Fortune 1000 companies, showcasing MongoDB's capabilities for modernizing legacy and building GenAI applications. You will collaborate with sales and developer relations teams, develop technical expertise in MongoDB and industry trends, gather customer feedback, and represent MongoDB at industry events. The position requires extensive technical consulting experience, proven leadership, and excellent communication skills. Travel is expected, but an impactful online presence can reduce this need.

Requirements

• 10+ years of technical consulting experience in Principal-level roles in Solutions Architecture, Developer Advocacy, Software Architecture, or Enterprise Consulting
• Recognized technical leader with deep hands-on experience implementing enterprise-scale RDBMS, MongoDB, or other database solutions
• Proven track record of enterprise project ownership and team leadership, preferably in modernization initiatives involving migration of legacy database technology platforms (e.g., Oracle, DB2, Sybase, etc.)
• Excellent communication and presentation skills, with the ability to explain complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences
• Strong understanding of database architectures, distributed systems, and cloud computing concepts, with experience in distributed systems design, including scalability, fault tolerance, and consistency models
• Experience in performance tuning, scalability, and high availability designs for large-scale database implementations
• Familiarity with modern application development frameworks and current proficiency with at least one of: Java, C#, Python
• Bachelor's or advanced degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field, or equivalent experience

Responsibilities

• Engage and influence executives and technical decision-makers at Fortune 1000 companies and create awareness and understanding of our products
• Aligned with Sales, work with our Strategic Developer Relations team (comprised of senior engineers with deep MongoDB experience) to develop and deliver technical engagements and targeted education sessions
• Develop and maintain deep technical expertise in MongoDB's product and solutions as well as industry trends and competitors' offerings
• Gather feedback and assess customer sentiment to influence product roadmap and advocate for our customers
• Represent MongoDB at industry conferences, trade shows, and technical events
• Contribute to thought leadership through blog posts, whitepapers, and speaking engagements

Preferred Qualifications

• Exceptional problem-solving skills and the ability to think strategically
• Excellent interpersonal skills and the ability to build and nurture relationships with C-level executives and senior technical decision-makers

Benefits

• Ability to exert broad industry influence and build your personal brand
• The chance to go deep on MongoDB, learning the most successful next generation database platform and seeing first-hand how the world's biggest companies use it for their most demanding applications
• Opportunity to influence technical direction and strategic decisions and some of the world's largest companies
• Competitive salary and benefits package
• Focused, high-performing team and close collaboration with your peers across the organization
• From employee affinity groups, to fertility assistance and a generous parental leave policy