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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Senior Forward Deployed Engineer - **Company:** MongoDB - **Location:** Vienna, VA, United States - **Experience:** Expert - **Salary:** $126,000.0 - $248,000.0 - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Artificial Intelligence, Code Review, Software Debugging, Software Deployment, Systems Integration, Large Language Models, Multi-Agent Systems, Software Troubleshooting, Bug Reporting, Software Coding - **Published:** August 2, 2026 - **Apply:** https://www.techcareers.com/job.asp?id=3339347934&tx=CT3028TYV&pt=1&aff=0B19D771-A501-4A5E-8338-2A822B784D54&utm_source=Job%20Feed&utm_medium=textkernel&utm_campaign=DE&utm_term=0B19D771-A501-4A5E-8338-2A822B784D54 ## About the Role * 5 - 8 years of engineering experience required * Hands-on production engineering experience, including writing code, debugging failures, and implementing fixes directly * Engineering experience in AI and agentic development * Experience with developing and deploying software within enterprise environments * Experience shipping production solutions at scale that customers relied on * Experience building integrations across existing systems and infrastructure * Strong troubleshooting and code review skills, including the ability to identify root causes and drive resolution * Willingness and ability to travel up to 30% to customer sites as needed for on-site engagements, technical reviews, and presentations Preferred qualifications * Experience with LLMs, agent frameworks, or deploying AI systems in production * Prior experience in an FDE or similar forward-deployed engineering role ## Description Customer success * Serve as the primary technical owner for customer engagements from initial discovery through production rollout * Understand each customer's architecture, constraints, and definition of success, and drive toward that outcome * Manage expectations, communicate risks clearly, and help customers navigate technical decisions with confidence Technical integration * Build the connectors, pipelines, and supporting tooling needed to make the platform work inside real enterprise environments * Write production-quality code, troubleshoot issues, and implement fixes directly in active workstreams * Work effectively within customer environments that have different stacks, infrastructure, and integration constraints Product feedback loop * Capture product feedback with precision, including logs, reproduction steps, and a clear proposed path forward * Use customer engagements to identify product gaps, surface recurring patterns, and help improve the product roadmap * Document technical decisions and tradeoffs clearly so product and engineering teams can extend the work Workstream collaboration * Partner closely with product and engineering teams to help turn field patterns into reusable product capabilities * Contribute directly in focused workstreams by helping drive technical design, implementation, and delivery * Make sound engineering decisions under pressure while building and iterating quickly Engagement management * Coordinate independently across internal teams and customer stakeholders to keep delivery moving * Communicate clearly across technical, business, and executive audiences ## Related Videos - [Postgres in the Age of AI (and Devin)](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1042-postgres-in-the-age-of-ai-and-devin) - [Are Code Reviews Worth It? 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