Staff Engineer

MongoDB; Gurugram District; Hybrid; INR 3,000,000 - 5,000,000; Full time

Job summary

MongoDB is seeking a Staff Engineer to join their Gurugram Products & Technology team. This hybrid role focuses on providing technical leadership, designing, and implementing key components of a new platform that facilitates AI application development. The ideal candidate will have 8+ years of experience with distributed systems, strong technical communication skills, and a background in languages such as Python, Go, and Java. MongoDB values collaboration and intellectual curiosity and is committed to enabling team success through strong mentorship.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in distributed systems or foundational cloud services.
• Proven success in designing, testing, debugging, and performance tuning.
• Experience leading projects with 15-20 people involved.

Responsibilities

• Work closely with cross-functional teams to define service evolution.
• Design and deliver core pieces of the new platform.
• Mentor fellow engineers and assume project ownership.

Skills

Building core components for high scale compute and data distributed systems

Experience with Python

Experience with Go

Experience with Java

Technical communication skills

Experience with containerization platforms (Kubernetes)

Job description

We are seeking a Staff Engineer to join our growing Gurugram Products & Technology team to provide technical direction, direct architecture, and implement core parts of a new platform we are building to make it easier for customers to build AI applications using MongoDB.

As a Staff Engineer on this new team, you will be responsible for providing technical leadership to teams developing cutting edge technologies related to enabling deployment at scale of AI applications. You will take on challenging, high-visibility projects that improve and enhance the performance, scalability, and reliability of the distributed systems infrastructure for this new product. MongoDB engineering teams pride themselves on building high-quality software and living MongoDB cultural values every day – we value intellectual curiosity and honesty, and building together in an environment that prioritizes collaboration over competition.

We are looking to speak to candidates who are based in Gurugram for our hybrid working model.

Position Expectations

• Work closely with research, product management, product engineering, product design, peers as well as other teams within the company to define the first version and future evolution of the service
• Design, build and deliver well-tested core pieces of the platform in collaboration with other vested parties
• Contribute to shaping architecture, code reviews and development practices, developer experience as the teams and product grow
• Mentor fellow engineers and assume ownership and accountability of projects

Qualifications

• Strong background in building core components for high scale compute and data distributed systems
• 8+ years experience of building distributed systems, and/or foundational cloud services at scale and an interest in working with Python, Go and Java
• Proven success in designing, writing, testing, debugging, performance tuning, possessing a strong grip on the foundational materials of computer science and maintaining distributed and/or highly concurrent software systems in large, long-lived code bases
• Track record of identifying problems, implementing solutions and delivering complex projects in distributed systems or databases
• Experience leading 15-20 people projects involving distributed systems infrastructure from conception to successful delivery.
• Good verbal and written technical communication skills, desire to collaborate with colleagues
• Bonus points for experience with containerization and orchestration platforms (eg. Kubernetes) and AI frameworks and tools
• Be a force multiplier in our software development process. Enable teams to deliver great products through leadership and technical contributions
• Eager to learn, with a strong technical background

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.

Requisition ID 426106