Senior Software Engineer

MongoDB; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 126,000 - 248,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible paid time off

20 weeks fully-paid parental leave

Fertility and adoption assistance

401(k) plan

Mental health counseling

Job summary

MongoDB is seeking an experienced engineer to develop core features for the Atlas Stream Processing platform in New York City or Austin. This role involves designing and delivering services, mentoring fellow engineers, and shaping architecture and development practices. Candidates should have a strong background in distributed systems and cloud services, along with experience in Go or Java. MongoDB offers a salary range of $126,000—$248,000 USD along with various employee benefits including flexible leave and health insurance.

Qualifications

• 5+ years experience with building distributed systems and cloud services at scale.
• Proven success in debugging, performance tuning, and maintaining distributed software systems.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and deliver core pieces of the service in collaboration with stakeholders.
• Contribute to architecture, code reviews, and development practices.
• Mentor fellow engineers and own projects.

Skills

Building core components for data processing systems

Experience with distributed systems

Cloud services experience

Containerization and orchestration (Kubernetes)

Technical communication skills

Tools

Go

Java

Observability tools

Job description

Atlas Stream Processing (https://www.mongodb.com/docs/atlas/atlas-sp/overview/) enables developers to continuously process streaming data alongside critical application data stored in their database. It builds upon MongoDB’s integrated developer data platform; enabling developers to stand up a stream processor and database with just a few API calls and lines of code, all fully managed on Atlas. As our product rapidly gains traction with customers, you will be instrumental in contributing to and owning the development of core new features. On the Platform team you will tackle complex distributed system problems with the goal of making our platform more scalable, reliable, and secure.

We are looking to speak to candidates who are based in Austin or New York City for our hybrid working model.

Position Expectations

• Design, build and deliver well-tested core pieces of the service in collaboration with other stakeholders
• Contribute to shaping architecture, code reviews and development practices, developer experience as the product grows
• Mentor fellow engineers and assume ownership and accountability of projects

Qualifications

• Strong background in building core components for data processing systems (including query execution, storage engines, autotuning and workload optimization) and distributed systems
• 5+ years experience of building distributed systems, and/or foundational cloud services at scale and an interest in working with Go and Java
• Experience with containerization and orchestration platforms (eg. Kubernetes) and Observability tools.
• 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
• Good verbal and written technical communication skills, desire to collaborate with colleagues

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.

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.

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: 1273413195

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:

$126,000—$248,000 USD