Principal Consulting Engineer

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 PS 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 Rome

We’re looking for someone with

10+ years of software development/consulting/support experience, preferably in a number of distinct industries/verticals

Competence in at least one of the following languages (in no particular order): Java, C#, Python, Node.js (JavaScript), Ruby, Go

Experience with databases such as MongoDB, Oracle, MS SQL Server, PostgreSQL

Familiarity with Linux diagnostics and tuning; Windows tuning knowledge is a plus

Familiarity with enterprise-scale software architectures, application development methodologies, and software deployment and operations

Excellent analytical, diagnostic skills, and problem-solving skills

High motivation for a role that combines deep technical and customer-management dimensions

Confidence speaking and presenting in a collaborative customer setting

Should be capable and comfortable with frequent travel for short trips to customer sites during the working week (up to 15%)

Fluency in both Italian and English languages

What you will do in this role

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

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

Become a field expert in “everything MongoDB”

Communicate complex technical proposals simply and convincingly to a wide range of audiences

Gain a reputation as a trusted advisor with your clients, large and small

Ensure your client’s success with their MongoDB endeavors

Maintain the required level of billable utilization

Influence MongoDB product development by contributing experience from the field

Successfully 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 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 75% of the Fortune 100 and AI-native startups, relying on MongoDB for their most important applications, we’re powering the next era of softw