Technical Services Engineer, Partners
Application analysis
Technical Services Engineer, Partners at MongoDB is a forward deployed database platform role for engineers who want customer-facing technical work with real deployment ownership.
Reading this role
This Technical customer-facing role role centers on hands-on work with customers to ship and adopt technical products. Key signals from the listing: Kubernetes / containers, AWS, Azure, GCP.
About MongoDB
MongoDB field engineers guide migrations, performance tuning, and Atlas adoption for production workloads. The role is anchored in Vancouver, so expect on-site customer work in that region.
Signals in the listing
Stand out for Technical Services Engineer, Partners
- Lead your application with one paragraph tying Technical Services Engineer, Partners to a specific customer or deployment you owned — MongoDB hires for shipped outcomes, not tool lists.
- Mirror language from the job description in your examples — if they emphasize deployment, use deployment stories; if integration, use integration stories.
- Include a short “how I work with customers” section in your cover note: communication cadence, escalation instincts, and how you handle ambiguity.
- For Kubernetes-heavy roles, describe a cluster you operated: upgrades, networking, secrets, observability, and how you debugged a production outage.
- The posting mentions multiple languages — pick the one most relevant to this team and show production code, not tutorial exercises.
- This role is tied to Vancouver — mention willingness to work on-site with customers and any existing ties to that market (clients, partners, or domain knowledge).
Stand out at MongoDB
- Demonstrate document data modeling with a concrete example — MongoDB will probe for specifics, not buzzwords.
- Demonstrate performance troubleshooting with a concrete example — MongoDB will probe for specifics, not buzzwords.
- They look for people who can diagnose slow queries live and explain tradeoffs to app teams without jargon.
- Read recent engineering blog posts, product launches, and customer stories on mongodb.com — reference one explicitly in your outreach to show genuine interest.
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Role description
MongoDB Technical Services Engineers use their exceptional problem solving and customer service skills, along with their deep technical experience, to advise customers and to solve their complex MongoDB problems. Technical Service Engineers are experts in the entire MongoDB ecosystem - database server, drivers, cloud and infrastructure. This also includes services such as Atlas (database as a service), or Cloud Manager (which helps customers with automation, backup and monitoring of their MongoDB systems). Our engineers combine their MongoDB expertise with passion, initiative, teamwork and a great sense of humor to achieve exceptional results for our customers. We are looking to speak to candidates who are based in Vancouver for our hybrid working model. Cool things you’ll do MongoDB is on a mission to change the way people think about databases. Along the way, our customers and partners encounter questions and issues about how our approach to databases works for their use case. In Technical Services, it's our job to help these people. You'll be working alongside our largest customers and partners, solving their complex issues - resolving questions on architecture, performance, recovery, security, and everything in between. You'll be an expert resource on standard methodologies in running MongoDB at scale, whatever that scale may be. You'll be an advocate for customers' and partners’ needs - working with our product management and development teams on their behalf. You'll contribute to internal projects, including software development of support tools for performance, benchmarking, and diagnostics. Externally, you will work with many of MongoDB's top ISV partners and ensure excellence for our joint customers. In addition, you will also be responsible for mentoring and ramping new team members and taking initiatives in building knowledge of new product lines within the MongoDB ecosystem.
What you need
We consider all candidates with an eye for those who are self taught, insatiably curious, and multi-faceted.
It’s important for candidates to check off these boxes:
Systems engineering experience, including Linux performance, memory management, I/O tuning, configuration, security, networking, clusters, and troubleshooting Should have a good understanding of Networking concepts and protocols (DNS, TCP/IP, SSL/TLS, etc.) Experience managing large scale databases (e.g. RDBMS or NoSQL) Storage engineering experience, including NAS, SAN, SSD, multi-pathing, and caching Experience building and maintaining complex mission-critical production database systems Be able to read and write code, and basic coding/scripting ability in one or more languages: Java, Python, Ruby, C, C++, C#, Javascript, node.js, Go, etc. Experience working with APIs and other application integration technologies Broad awareness of customer workloads and use cases, including performance, availability, and scalability Experience analyzing issues holistically, from the application tier through the database, down to the storage Genuine desire to help people Ability to think on your feet, remain calm under pressure, and solve problems in real-time Desire and ability to rapidly learn a wide variety of new technical skills Collaboration: Ability to work collaboratively amongst cross functional teams (partner, sales, support, customer success, etc) Willingness and clarity of thoughts to be able to work in ambiguous multi-party situations where motivations and incentives are sometimes misaligned General understanding of partner ecosystems
Bonus Points
Experience in one or more programming languages developing applications using a NoSQL or SQL database Strong understanding of authentication systems such as LDAP, Kerberos, AD Experience using or managing MongoDB Experience using distributed version control systems, and in particular git Experience using any cloud services stack such as AWS, Azure or GCP Experience with Kubernetes or other orchestration systems using vendor-specific Enterprise operators Experience in working software product teams, and familiarity with product release processes from planning to release Experience with one or more 3rd party partner technologies and software in the areas of security and fraud, big data analytics and AI, healthcare, content management, IoT, database performance monitoring and management; financial services, healthcare services, telco etc General understanding of the genAI concepts and technology companies in this space
Success Measures
In 3 months, you’ll have gained a deep understanding of MongoDB and its partner ecosystem. You will complete New Hire Training In 6 months, you will be comfortable working frontline with our customers and partners. You will also complete the MongoDB Certified DBA Associate exam In 12 months, you will be a technical specialist within MongoDB and will be helping your peer engineers in advanced diagnostics. Also, you will be encouraged to handle technical escalations independently
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 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.
Req ID: 4263346828
MongoDB’s base salary range for this role is posted below. Compensation at the time of offer is unique to each candidate and based on a variety of factors such as skill set, experience, qualifications, and work location. Salary is one part of MongoDB’s total compensation and
benefits package. Other
benefits for eligible employees may include: equity, participation in the employee stock purchase program, flexible paid time off, 20 weeks fully-paid gender-neutral parental leave, fertility and adoption assistance, Registered Retirement Savings Plan (RRSP) with employer match, mental health counseling, backup child and elder care, and health, dental, and vision benefits offerings. Please note, the base salary range listed below and the benefits in this paragraph are only applicable to candidates based in Canada.
MongoDB’s base salary range for this role in Canada is:
- $115,000—$160,000 CAD