Senior Field Engineer Application Modernization

The worldwide data management software market is massive (According to IDC, the data management software market is forecast to be $94 billion in 2023 growing to approximately $153 billion in 2027, representing a 13% compound annual growth rate). At MongoDB we are transforming industries and empowering developers to build amazing apps that people use every day. We are the leading developer data platform and the first database provider to IPO in over 20 years. Join our team and be at the forefront of innovation and creativity.

MongoDB is looking for an outstanding person to join our newly create Field Engineering team and take on a key role in our extended R&D organisation. Field Engineering is linking the work of teams engaged on application modernization roles with our Product and Engineering teams.

Since the invention of RDBMS, the cost of storage (and compute) has dropped by multiple orders of magnitude. At the same time the requirements towards systems in terms of scalability, resiliency and availability have increased massively. To take advantage of ubiquitous cheap storage a new generation of database technologies have been developed with MongoDB emerging as the “dominant document database”.

Many organisations have built up large estates of legacy applications. Lack of scalability and resilience, long development times, operating cost, and inability to run on cloud are common issues with these applications. To address these issues, organisations are engaging in large transformational Application Modernisation programs. Because MongoDB is recognized as the developer data platform of choice for transactional systems that provide the best scalability, resiliency and developer experience in the cloud as well as on premises, organisations are continuously migrating workloads from these legacy applications to new platforms, often based on microservices, using MongoDB.

Currently, these transformations are very time intensive and often risky. Tooling based on generative AI promises to accelerate these transformations in a way never seen before. Field Engineering is responsible to explore the possibilitites of these technologies and provide invaluable information to MongoDB’s R&D teams to drive future capabilities of MognoDB and the MongoDB ecosystem.

Field Engineers will be embedded into project teams that are executing Application Modernisation projects with and for customers. The successful candidate will be responsible for evaluation and applying tools in these projects, facilitating the usage of such tools and processes across the project team, identifying opportunities for tooling deployment, selecting potential 3rd party tools, contributing to the development of tooling prototypes and helping to shape the product roadmap.

Our ideal candidate will have

• 5+ years of experience as a field engineer or professional services consultant or contracting full stack developer working directly with Enterprise clients.
• Expert level knowledge about enterprise-scale software architectures, application development methodologies, and software deployment and operations.
• Deep experience developing enterprise applications using relational databases, and employing SQL and stored procedures with Oracle, MS SQL Server, Sybase and/or PostgreSQL databases.
• Experience of using and developing with MongoDB and JSON based Document models is highly desirable.
• A curiosity in how AI supported toolchains can improve application development is desirable.
• Strong problem solving skills, including the ability to collaborate across disciplines and teams to come up with creative solutions to technical and business challenges.
• Willingness to dive into a complex domain, ask the right questions, and bring new software tools and technologies to the table to solve customer problems.
• Great communication skills (both spoken and written), within the team and in customer meetings.
• Proficiency in Java and/or C#, and some familiarity with common database access patterns and frameworks in one or more of these languages.