Senior Engineer

About the Role

The Senior Software Engineer at MongoDB will play a crucial role in building and maintaining internal tools and platforms that enhance operational efficiency. This position involves leading technical discussions, writing high-quality code, and collaborating with various stakeholders to drive improvements in engineering processes.

Position Expectations

• Own the implementation and long-term maintenance of internal tools and platforms.
• Lead technical design discussions and contribute to architectural decisions.
• Write high-quality, maintainable code while setting a strong engineering example for the team.
• Identify and proactively address technical debt, reliability risks, and scalability concerns.
• Collaborate with engineers, product partners, and other stakeholders to prioritize and deliver high-impact work.

Success Measures

• In three months, demonstrate strong ownership of one or more internal systems and contribute significantly to ongoing initiatives.
• In three months, independently deliver meaningful improvements that reduce manual effort or operational friction.
• In six months, have driven technical improvements or new tooling that measurably improves internal engineering efficiency, reliability, or velocity.

Who You Are

• Has 6+ years of professional software engineering experience.
• Deep experience with at least one modern programming language (Python, Go, Rust, etc.).
• Strong technical judgment and the ability to independently solve complex engineering problems.
• Excellent communication skills and comfort collaborating across teams and disciplines.
• Comfortable working with modern infrastructure and delivery systems, including containerized applications, Kubernetes, and CI/CD tooling (e.g., Drone.io or similar).
• Collaborative, detail-oriented, and passionate about building reliable, usable software.

Bonus Round

• Experience building and maintaining full-stack applications, from front-end UIs to backend API handlers to database migrations.
• Experience designing systems or services used by other engineers or teams.
• Knowledge of any of the following technologies: Next.js, FastAPI, React.

About MongoDB

MongoDB is built for change, empowering our customers and our people to innovate at the speed of the market. We have redefined the data platform for the AI era, enabling builders to create, transform, and disrupt industries with software. MongoDB’s unified data platform, the most widely available, globally distributed data platform on the market, helps organizations modernize legacy workloads, embrace innovation, and unleash AI.

With offices worldwide and over 67,000 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.

Our compass at MongoDB is our Leadership Commitment, guiding how and why we make decisions, show up for each other, and win. It’s what makes us MongoDB.

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.

MongoDB is committed to providing any necessary accommodations for individuals with disabilities within our application and interview process.