Principal Developer Advocate

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Phoenix, AZ, USA
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168K-330K Annually
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Big Data • Cloud • Software • Database
MongoDB empowers innovators to create, transform, and disrupt industries by unleashing the power of software and data.
The Role
The Principal Developer Advocate will create high-quality video, audio, and written content, enhance builder engagement, and provide feedback to Product teams about builder needs.
Summary Generated by Built In

We are excited to welcome an influential individual to our team who, through their leadership and presence in the community, can highlight builder success and spread passion for MongoDB. You’re ready to put a program in place that features community and team members on camera (and microphone), showing builders the possibilities of using our platform. 

At the foundation of your passion and expertise is a love to equip others through video, social, and community channels. Our ideal candidate will have at least 12 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, elevating their influence, reach, and presence across our industry. 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 video, audio, and written content. You will create narratives that showcase our builders, and how they use MongoDB's capabilities, to motivate others to build applications using our platform
  • Build a portfolio of content, based on performance data and strategy, that likely includes recurring video series, adhoc, and timely content, that align MongoDB technical motions and emerging patterns in the industry
  • Support the creation of 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 content
  • Work across teams to ensure 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 builder 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
  • Partner with our Customer Marketing team to evaluate customer stories and provide guidance on how we can best highlight their builders and their success with MongoDB
  • Collaborate with our events and field teams to engage community and customers at meetups, events, hackathons, and startup houses
Requirements
  • Expertise in building data solutions with MongoDB and/or related database technologies
  • Expertise with one or more complementary programming languages (Python or JavaScript preferred)
  • Prolific author of content (videos, tutorials, how-to guides, readmes) and associated code to help developers learn
  • Examples of pre-production and interview prep that ensures compelling on-camera discussions
  • 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: 2273450692

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, 401(k) plan, mental health counseling, access to transgender-inclusive health insurance coverage, and health benefits offerings. Please note, the base salary range listed below and the benefits in this paragraph are only applicable to U.S.-based candidates.

MongoDB’s base salary range for this role in the U.S. is:
$168,000$330,000 USD

Skills Required

  • Expertise in building data solutions with MongoDB and/or related database technologies
  • Expertise with one or more complementary programming languages (Python or JavaScript preferred)
  • Prolific author of content (videos, tutorials, how-to guides)
  • Examples of pre-production and interview prep for on-camera discussions
  • Engaging presenter at events, videos, webinars
  • Active user of AI-assisted coding tools

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MongoDB Compensation & Benefits Highlights

  • Parental & Family Support Parental leave is substantial and fully paid for new parents, with additional paid flexibility to ease the return to work. Family‑building support reimburses eligible fertility, adoption, and surrogacy expenses up to a lifetime maximum in the U.S.
  • Healthcare Strength Health coverage includes multiple medical, dental, and vision options plus a One Medical membership for employees and dependents. Coverage extends to inclusive services such as gender‑affirmation care and dedicated menopause/low‑testosterone support, alongside mental‑health resources.
  • Leave & Time Off Breadth Flexible PTO and observed company holidays provide meaningful time away from work. Return‑to‑work flexibility following parental leave further broadens overall time‑off support.

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