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.
We are seeking a Senior Engineer to join our Atlas Migration team. This diverse group of engineers is responsible for architecting, deploying and managing fully automated, low-downtime data migration services. Our tooling is built directly into our cutting edge, multi-cloud database service, MongoDB Atlas, and is critical for migrating enterprise workloads into Atlas. As a member of this team, you will architect new solutions to continually evolving scalability, performance and usability challenges.
We are looking to speak to candidates who are based in New York for our hybrid working model.
Successful candidates will have the following qualities:
- 5+ years of hands-on experience in software engineering, primarily focused on backend systems
- Is skilled at writing large-scale, distributed backend systems in a compiled language (Java, C#, Go, etc.)
- Is comfortable working across the stack of a modern web application (e.g. React, TypeScript, Enzyme)
- Has experience with at least one major cloud provider technology (AWS, Azure, GCP)
- Has led the launch of new features and maintained them in production
- Is curious, collaborative, empathetic and intellectually honest
- Is motivated to solve tough problems and continually expand their knowledge
- Has excellent written and verbal communication skills
In this role you will:
- Work closely with product, design, and engineers across the organization to collectively build features that our customers love
- Stay up to date on the latest advancements in Cloud computing and software development to bring them into our product
- Solve difficult technical problems in a distributed environment
- Own the planning and delivery of major features from ideation through design and implementation
- Define your top priorities and focuses, communicate and execute against them
- Mentor and contribute to the growth of team members
Success Measures:
- In three months, you’ll have developed a deep understanding of MongoDB and our migration tooling. You will have shipped code into production and collaborated with the team to solve tough problems
- In six months, you’ll be reviewing new feature designs, with an active role in the design and implementation of a major project, while leading development of smaller performance enhancements
- In twelve months, you’ll be leading the design and development of major new features, and will be mentoring new engineers. You’ll have a strong familiarity with the products the team owns and can work across the codebase
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: 1263123560
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:
$118,000—$231,000 USD
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