Senior Backend Engineer, Atlas Search - Lead Projects

MongoDB; California (MO); Hybrid; USD 122,000 - 209,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Employee stock purchase

Flexible PTO

Parental leave (20 weeks)

Fertility assistance

401(k)

Mental health benefits

Health insurance

Job summary

MongoDB in San Francisco, CA seeks a senior backend engineer to design, build, and maintain scalable systems for Atlas Search. You’ll contribute to high‑impact backend work, optimize distributed infrastructure, and collaborate with a team that values strong engineering judgment and ownership.

The role requires 2+ years designing robust backend software, distributed systems, and cloud familiarity, with a bias toward Java and strong communication.

Qualifications

• 2+ years of hands-on experience designing, building, testing, and maintaining industrial-strength backend software and automation in complex codebases.
• Experience developing distributed systems and multithreaded applications.
• Familiarity with public cloud platforms, distributed infrastructure, and metric-based development.
• Experience with at least one modern statically typed programming language, and interest in working with Java.
• Excellent verbal and written technical communication skills and enthusiasm for collaborating closely with colleagues.
• A growth mindset and the desire to learn quickly through taking on challenges, reflecting on outcomes, and incorporating feedback.
• A strong sense of ownership over their work, from initial design all the way through maintaining code in production.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to the design, implementation, and support of projects that improve the scalability of Atlas Search to make using it a seamless experience for even the largest workloads.
• Work with a collaborative team that prioritizes sound technical decision-making and building systems that our customers love and that we are proud of as engineers.
• Have the opportunity to lead projects and own subsystems.
• Provide input on the team’s roadmap and help determine the architecture of our system.

Skills

Backend development

Distributed systems

Multithreading

Cloud platforms

Java

Technical communication

Ownership

Job description

MongoDB in San Francisco, CA seeks a senior backend engineer to design, build, and maintain scalable systems for Atlas Search. You’ll contribute to high‑impact backend work, optimize distributed infrastructure, and collaborate with a team that values strong engineering judgment and ownership.

The role requires 2+ years designing robust backend software, distributed systems, and cloud familiarity, with a bias toward Java and strong communication.