Senior Software Engineer, DBX

MongoDB; United States; Remote; USD 90,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

An innovative company is seeking a senior engineer to enhance the MongoDB Node.js Driver and its dependencies. In this role, you will collaborate with a global team, tackle complex challenges in distributed systems, and advocate for best practices in software development. If you are passionate about open source and have a solid background in software engineering, this is your chance to contribute to impactful projects while enjoying a supportive work culture that values personal and professional growth.

Benefits

Generous parental leave policy

Fertility assistance

Employee affinity groups

Supportive work culture

Qualifications

• 4+ years of experience writing high-quality software.
• Experience with relational and non-relational databases.

Responsibilities

• Maintain and build features for the MongoDB Node.js Driver.
• Investigate bugs and support requests from users.

Skills

Concurrency

Parallelism

Distributed Systems

Open Source Development

Testing Best Practices

Software Design Tradeoffs

Collaboration

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

MongoDB

Node.js

C++

Mongoose

Job description

MongoDB’s mission is to empower innovators to create, transform, and disrupt industries by unleashing the power of software and data. We enable organizations of all sizes to easily build, scale, and run modern applications by helping them modernize legacy workloads, embrace innovation, and unleash AI. Our industry-leading developer data platform, MongoDB Atlas, is the only globally distributed, multi-cloud database and is available in more than 115 regions across AWS, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure. Atlas allows customers to build and run applications anywhere—on premises, or across cloud providers. With offices worldwide and over 175,000 new developers signing up to use MongoDB every month, it’s no wonder that leading organizations, like Samsung and Toyota, trust MongoDB to build next-generation, AI-powered applications.

Our Database Experience (DBX) Team

The Database Experience team builds the libraries and tools that developers use day-to-day working with MongoDB. Our mission is to increase developer adoption, satisfaction and retention by providing a reliable, enjoyable interface for developers and other end-users.

Our senior engineers are typically specialists in a particular programming language, but are capable of contributing to projects in other languages as well.

In This Role You Will…

• Maintain and build features for the MongoDB Node.js Driver along with its dependencies and native C++ addons (bson, mongodb-client-encryption, @mongodb-js/zstd, kerberos)
• Contribute to the common driver specifications supporting the full range of MongoDB features
• Investigate bugs and support requests from commercial customers, open source users, and internal users for the libraries our team maintains
• Collaborate closely with peers in our distributed world-wide engineering team

You’re Right For This Role If You…

• Are fascinated by, and have experience working with concurrency, parallelism and distributed systems
• Want to participate in Open Source software development and communities
• Communicate well, internally and externally, both in writing and face-to-face
• Advocate for testing and agile development best practices
• Can make pragmatic design tradeoffs while balancing features, maintainability, and delivery time
• Enjoy collaborating with and elevate the skills and expertise of those around you

For This Role You Must Have…

• Have 4+ years of experience writing high-quality software
• Experience with databases, relational or non-relational
• Good written and spoken English communication skills

It Helps If You Have…

• Experience contributing to open source projects
• Experience building production applications with mongoose and/or the Node.js driver itself
• Experience using or contributing to open source AI frameworks/integrations such as LangChain or n8n
• Experience working with MongoDB and the document model
• A diversity of experience writing tests for the software you developed (unit, integration, end to end, performance, etc)
• A working knowledge of C++

Success Measures

• Within one month, you will understand the high-level architecture of the driver and how MongoDB works, and will have completed a few small bug fixes and/or feature tickets
• Within three months, you will be contributing effectively day-to-day, fixing bugs, implementing planned features, and thoroughly reviewing your colleagues’ pull requests
• Within six months, you will have implemented major features, planned new features, contributed to our common driver specifications, and will be collaborating with the Product team to help craft our roadmap
• Within twelve months, you'll have significantly improved the quality, performance and maintainability of our codebase, and will be taking the lead in designing and specifying major new features

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: 2263139971

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