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The Strategic Builder Relations Team at MongoDB is focused on enabling our largest and most important customers to use MongoDB technology effectively. This team is the tip of the spear within our strategic accounts, working with these customers' developers, as well as key MongoDB stakeholders (e.g., sales, marketing), to encourage adoption of MongoDB solutions within these accounts. The mission of this team is to capture the imagination of new and potential MongoDB users within these accounts, to enable developers as they begin their MongoDB journey, and to guide development teams as they design for new or replatformed workloads.
We're seeking a Staff Developer Advocate to join our Strategic Builder Relations team to focus on driving enablement within MongoDB's most strategic accounts. Our mission is to capture the imagination of new and potential MongoDB developers within these accounts, to enable developers as they begin their MongoDB journey, and to lead developers in designs for new or replatformed workloads. Our team increases developers' effective use of MongoDB and reduces the time it takes for developers to meaningfully use the platform. As a member of Strategic Builder Relations, you will join a team of our most experienced engineers, help evolve the program to broaden and deepen its scope, and deliver campus-scale and team-scale events to customers throughout the world. If you're passionate about data and helping developers to engineer some of the most performant, scalable, and efficient solutions of their careers, then join us in shaping the future of development on MongoDB.
Our Builder Relations teams are distributed around the world and a majority of the group works remotely. Please check out our latest content and activity to see what our team is up to.
This role can be based out of our Portland office or remotely in the Oregon region.
CANDIDATE PROFILE
As a Developer Advocate on the Strategics team, you are an accomplished developer ready to peer, mentor, and lead development teams as they solve their enterprise's most critical data issues. You are known for your deep MongoDB expertise (or familiarity with other data technologies and the ability to quickly become proficient in MongoDB), your insight into developer enablement programs, and your ability to guide development teams in the adoption of new technologies. You're an excellent public speaker and are comfortable delivering live enablement sessions to technical audiences of 40 to 400. Your recent experience includes consulting with developers on data-related challenges and moving them toward solutions for their real-world performance and scalability problems. As a bonus, your experience also includes exercising soft leadership with decision makers in organizations for defining, adopting, and scaling data-related technologies.
With a combination of at least 10 years of solutions development and consulting experience, you have a deep understanding of developer ecosystems and how developers best acquire fluency in new technologies. You have a robust working knowledge of databases, database performance, schema design, and optimizing production applications at scale. You employ a well-developed consulting method that allows you to quickly triage situations to understand the most critical issues at hand and to address them efficiently. Finally, you excel at explaining complex technical concepts in simple terms and have a natural ability to connect and communicate with developers of various skill levels.
Collaboration and empowerment are at the heart of this team's work style. You'll work closely with other team members to create and refine content, to deliver events, and to share insights, techniques, and best practices with the larger MongoDB team and with the broader developer community. Your focus is not just on individual success but on success of the entire team, consistent with MongoDB's value of Building Together.
POSITION EXPECTATIONS
- Become a recognized Subject Matter Expert on document schema design
- Develop a deep understanding of core MongoDB database functionality and Atlas features such as Search, Vector Search, Data Federation, Online Archive, Streaming, and Edge
- Deliver design review sessions to customer development teams in order to guide their design and use of MongoDB document schemas in the context of their specific workload
- Share general insights gathered from design review sessions to inform team members and enable other developers
- Deliver live developer enablement sessions to audiences of 40 to 400 developers
- Collaborate with product, marketing, and other Builder Relations teams to develop effective enablement content for developers within strategic accounts
- Be an active participant in refining and evolving our practice by using your experience in database technologies, developer practices, and developer enablement
- Lead by example and mentor other team members including surrounding ecosystem of Solutions Architects and Marketing partners
- Attain a scope of responsibilities beyond the immediate team and into the surround Marketing ecosystem and greater MongoDB organization
REQUIREMENTS
- At least 7 years of experience working with development teams in design of document schemas and implementation of highly performant and scalable database methods
- At least 5 years of experience (or the equivalent) of consulting with development teams as a non-member of the team
- Experience in creating effective developer-focused content
- Strong presentation skills, with ability in conducting live streams, or public speaking at events
- Willingness to travel (up to 40%)
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: 1273418416
INTRODUCTION
The Strategic Builder Relations Team at MongoDB is focused on enabling our largest and most important customers to use MongoDB technology effectively. This team is the tip of the spear within our strategic accounts, working with these customers' developers, as well as key MongoDB stakeholders (e.g., sales, marketing), to encourage adoption of MongoDB solutions within these accounts. The mission of this team is to capture the imagination of new and potential MongoDB users within these accounts, to enable developers as they begin their MongoDB journey, and to guide development teams as they design for new or replatformed workloads.
We're seeking a Staff Developer Advocate to join our Strategic Builder Relations team to focus on driving enablement within MongoDB's most strategic accounts. Our mission is to capture the imagination of new and potential MongoDB developers within these accounts, to enable developers as they begin their MongoDB journey, and to lead developers in designs for new or replatformed workloads. Our team increases developers' effective use of MongoDB and reduces the time it takes for developers to meaningfully use the platform. As a member of Strategic Builder Relations, you will join a team of our most experienced engineers, help evolve the program to broaden and deepen its scope, and deliver campus-scale and team-scale events to customers throughout the world. If you're passionate about data and helping developers to engineer some of the most performant, scalable, and efficient solutions of their careers, then join us in shaping the future of development on MongoDB.
Our Builder Relations teams are distributed around the world and a majority of the group works remotely. Please check out our latest content and activity to see what our team is up to.
This role can be based out of our Portland office or remotely in the Oregon region.
CANDIDATE PROFILE
As a Developer Advocate on the Strategics team, you are an accomplished developer ready to peer, mentor, and lead development teams as they solve their enterprise's most critical data issues. You are known for your deep MongoDB expertise (or familiarity with other data technologies and the ability to quickly become proficient in MongoDB), your insight into developer enablement programs, and your ability to guide development teams in the adoption of new technologies. You're an excellent public speaker and are comfortable delivering live enablement sessions to technical audiences of 40 to 400. Your recent experience includes consulting with developers on data-related challenges and moving them toward solutions for their real-world performance and scalability problems. As a bonus, your experience also includes exercising soft leadership with decision makers in organizations for defining, adopting, and scaling data-related technologies.
With a combination of at least 10 years of solutions development and consulting experience, you have a deep understanding of developer ecosystems and how developers best acquire fluency in new technologies. You have a robust working knowledge of databases, database performance, schema design, and optimizing production applications at scale. You employ a well-developed consulting method that allows you to quickly triage situations to understand the most critical issues at hand and to address them efficiently. Finally, you excel at explaining complex technical concepts in simple terms and have a natural ability to connect and communicate with developers of various skill levels.
Collaboration and empowerment are at the heart of this team's work style. You'll work closely with other team members to create and refine content, to deliver events, and to share insights, techniques, and best practices with the larger MongoDB team and with the broader developer community. Your focus is not just on individual success but on success of the entire team, consistent with MongoDB's value of Building Together.
POSITION EXPECTATIONS
- Become a recognized Subject Matter Expert on document schema design
- Develop a deep understanding of core MongoDB database functionality and Atlas features such as Search, Vector Search, Data Federation, Online Archive, Streaming, and Edge
- Deliver design review sessions to customer development teams in order to guide their design and use of MongoDB document schemas in the context of their specific workload
- Share general insights gathered from design review sessions to inform team members and enable other developers
- Deliver live developer enablement sessions to audiences of 40 to 400 developers
- Collaborate with product, marketing, and other Builder Relations teams to develop effective enablement content for developers within strategic accounts
- Be an active participant in refining and evolving our practice by using your experience in database technologies, developer practices, and developer enablement
- Lead by example and mentor other team members including surrounding ecosystem of Solutions Architects and Marketing partners
- Attain a scope of responsibilities beyond the immediate team and into the surround Marketing ecosystem and greater MongoDB organization
REQUIREMENTS
- At least 7 years of experience working with development teams in design of document schemas and implementation of highly performant and scalable database methods
- At least 5 years of experience (or the equivalent) of consulting with development teams as a non-member of the team
- Experience in creating effective developer-focused content
- Strong presentation skills, with ability in conducting live streams, or public speaking at events
- Willingness to travel (up to 40%)
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: 1273418416
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Align your credentials to PERM job requirements
PERM labor certification locks in the minimum requirements for your role. If your employer lists a computer science degree, your credentials must match exactly. Gaps between your actual background and the filed requirements can trigger USCIS scrutiny during I-140 adjudication.
Target employers with active EB-2 and EB-3 filing history
Use Migrate Mate to filter Developer Advocate roles by employers who have previously sponsored green cards. Filing history signals that a company's legal and HR teams already understand the PERM process, reducing the risk they abandon sponsorship mid-pipeline.
Verify prevailing wage before negotiating your offer
Your employer must pay at least the DOL prevailing wage for your role and work location. Look up the applicable wage level using the OFLC Wage Search before accepting an offer, so your negotiated salary meets PERM certification requirements from day one.
Distinguish EB-2 from EB-3 eligibility early
Developer Advocate roles involving research, publications, or specialized platform architecture may support an EB-2 filing for advanced-degree professionals. More generalist advocacy roles often fall under EB-3. Clarify which category your employer intends to file under before the PERM application is drafted.
Ask employers about concurrent I-140 and I-485 filing
Once DOL certifies your PERM application, your employer files an I-140 petition with USCIS. If your priority date is current, you can file I-485 concurrently, letting you work and travel on advance parole while the green card is pending.
Document your technical contributions for the I-140 stage
Collect evidence of developer programs you've built, open-source contributions, conference talks, and community metrics before your I-140 is filed. Strong supporting documentation reduces requests for evidence from USCIS and helps demonstrate the specialized nature of your work.
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Does a Developer Advocate role qualify for EB-2 or EB-3 green card sponsorship?
Most Developer Advocate positions qualify under EB-3 as professional roles requiring at least a bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, or a related field. Roles with a research or architecture component, or that require a master's degree, may qualify under EB-2. Your employer determines which category to file based on the actual job requirements they document for PERM.
How does green card sponsorship differ from H-1B sponsorship for Developer Advocates?
H-1B is a temporary status with a three-year initial period and an annual lottery cap. Green card sponsorship through PERM and I-140 leads to permanent residency with no cap concerns at the EB-3 level for most countries outside India and China. The tradeoff is timeline: PERM labor certification alone takes several months before USCIS even receives the I-140 petition.
What does the PERM labor certification process involve for this role?
Your employer must conduct a supervised recruitment effort to document that no qualified U.S. worker is available for the Developer Advocate position. DOL reviews the process and certifies the application if requirements are met. The job duties, minimum education, and experience requirements are locked in at this stage, so any later changes may require restarting the process.
How can I find Developer Advocate jobs where the employer already sponsors green cards?
Search Migrate Mate to filter Developer Advocate roles by employers with verified EB-2 or EB-3 sponsorship history. Targeting companies with an established PERM filing track record reduces the risk that an employer agrees to sponsor in principle but lacks the internal infrastructure to see the process through to I-140 approval.
Can I change employers while my green card is pending as a Developer Advocate?
Once your I-140 has been approved for 180 days and your I-485 has been pending for at least 180 days, AC21 portability may allow you to move to a same or similar role with a different employer without losing your priority date. Developer Advocate roles can qualify under AC21 if the new position involves substantially similar technical responsibilities.
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