Staff Engineer — AI Platform at Scale (Canada)

MongoDB Inc.; Toronto; Remote; CAD 187,000 - 260,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Employee stock purchase program

Flexible PTO

Parental leave 20 weeks

Fertility assistance

RRSP with employer match

Mental health support

Child and elder care

Health, dental, vision benefits

Job summary

MongoDB is seeking a Staff Engineer to provide technical direction for a new AI platform. You will lead teams delivering core platform components, shaping architecture, and driving high-scale distributed systems infrastructure in the AI era.

You will mentor engineers, collaborate with product and design, and contribute to engineering practices to ensure reliability and performance in a fast-growing product area.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of building distributed systems or foundational cloud services at scale.
• Experience leading 15–20 person projects with distributed systems infrastructure.
• Strong design, testing, debugging and performance tuning skills in large codebases.
• Experience with Python, Go and Java; containerization and orchestration is a plus.
• Excellent verbal and written technical communication; collaborative mindset.

Responsibilities

• Define the first version and future evolution of the service with PM and design teams.
• Design, build and deliver core platform components with other teams.
• Contribute to shaping architecture, code reviews and development practices.
• Mentor engineers and take ownership of projects.

Skills

Distributed systems

Cloud services

Python

Go

Java

Technical leadership

Communication

Mentoring

Team leadership

Learning mindset

Tools

Kubernetes

Job description

MongoDB is seeking a Staff Engineer to provide technical direction for a new AI platform. You will lead teams delivering core platform components, shaping architecture, and driving high-scale distributed systems infrastructure in the AI era.

You will mentor engineers, collaborate with product and design, and contribute to engineering practices to ensure reliability and performance in a fast-growing product area.