Staff Developer Advocate

Department: Technical Marketing

We are looking for a Staff Content Engineer to join our Builder Relations team. As more developers choose MongoDB as their data platform, your responsibilities will include directly engaging with the community to create inspiring resources and content, and collaborating with a global team of skilled Developer Advocates.

You will empower developers—from startups to Fortune 500 companies—to integrate advanced data and AI capabilities into their applications and solutions. If you are passionate about inspiring and highlighting other builders and enjoy cultivating a vibrant developer ecosystem, we invite you to join us in shaping the future of development on MongoDB.

Our Builder Relations teams are distributed across the globe, with most members working remotely. This position will be based in the San Francisco Bay Area. To see what our team is doing, check out our content on YouTube, Dev, and Medium.

Candidate Profile

We are excited to welcome an influential individual to our team who, through their professional experience, has developed a passion and expertise for MongoDB. You’re ready to lead creation of team- and community-contributed articles, tutorials, video, and code that show builders the possibilities of using our platform. 

At the foundation of your passion and expertise is a love to equip others. Our ideal candidate will have at least 8 years of experience in a builder role, such as a software engineer, architect, or developer, where they deployed data-solutions in production. Ideally, they will have additional experience in a customer-facing role (such as solution architect), teaching, or related technical role, where they’ve used code and content to support others. 

Though the expertise you bring will be unique, our team is built to work together to share knowledge and help each other grow. You will work with others at all levels, supporting peer reviews of code, demos, sessions, and other content. You should have a genuine passion for equipping other developers to be more productive and successful. 

Position Expectations

Below are examples of the types of work you will be doing. Your mix of activities will vary week to week based on priorities and event schedules. 

• Produce high-quality content. You will create narratives that showcase MongoDB's capabilities and motivate others to build applications using our platform
• Establish templates, reusable artifacts, and processes to scale the creation of  inspiring content and code with our most passionate and expert customers and community members
• Create and update tutorials, articles, videos, and workshops along with their associated workflows or workflows or code examples
• Highlight team, customer, and community contributions through social media, forums, and well-produced video
• Provide guidance, peer and technical review of code and content
• Work across teams to ensure code and content is placed in channels highly visible and influential to builders and agents
• Provide feedback to our Product and Technology team, serving as the voice of the developer as new products are scoped and planned
• Partner with our community team to support engagement with third-party and first-party user groups (MUGs), Champions, forums, and influencer programs across the region
• Lead one-hour sessions (both virtual and in-person) with customer teams to evaluate their use cases and provide recommendations on how they can better utilize MongoDB
• Collaborate with our events and field teams to engage community and customers at meetups, events, hackathons, and startup houses

Requirements

• Expertise in building solutions with MongoDB
• Expertise with one or more complementary programming languages (Python or JavaScript preferred)
• Prolific author of content (tutorials, how-to guides, readmes) and associated code to help developers learn
• Established portfolio or active contributor to projects in GitHub
• Engaging presenter at in-person events, videos, webinars, or live streams 
• Active user of AI-assisted coding tools, holding opinions on best practices for AI for creating code and supporting content
• Up to 33% of time traveling to community and customer engagements (like meetups, events, hackathons, and startup houses)

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 database for the AI era, enabling innovators to create, transform, and disrupt industries with software. MongoDB’s unified database platform, the most widely available, globally distributed database 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 database and is available across AWS, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure.

With offices worldwide and over 60,000 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, Inc. provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type and makes all hiring decisions without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.

Req ID: 1273416960