Senior Software Engineer
MongoDB · Posted Sep 29
Modern database platform, cloud database-as-a-service, vector search, and developer data services
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About the role
MongoDB's growing Bengaluru Products & Technology team is building a new platform that makes it easier for customers to build AI applications using MongoDB, spanning its unified, globally distributed data platform and MongoDB Atlas. The team focuses on distributed systems infrastructure for deploying AI applications at scale. This Senior Software Engineer role provides technical direction, directs architecture, and implements core parts of the platform, with an emphasis on performance, scalability, and reliability.
What you will do
- Work closely with research, product management, product engineering, product design, peers as well as other teams within the company to define the first version and future evolution of the service
- Design, build and deliver well-tested core pieces of the platform in collaboration with other vested parties
- Contribute to shaping architecture, code reviews and development practices, developer experience as the teams and product grow
- Mentor fellow engineers and assume ownership and accountability of projects
Skills used in this role
What the employer is looking for
- Strong background in building core components for high scale compute and data distributed systems
- 5+ years experience of building distributed systems, and/or foundational cloud services at scale and an interest in working with Python, Go and Java
- 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
- Bonus points for experience with containerization and orchestration platforms (eg. Kubernetes) and AI frameworks and tools
- Be a force multiplier in our software development process. Enable teams to deliver great products through leadership and technical contributions
- Eager to learn, with a strong technical background
Benefits and support
- Employee affinity groups
- Fertility assistance
- Generous parental leave policy
About MongoDB
MongoDB is a modern, general-purpose database platform designed to unleash the power of software and data for developers and enterprises globally. Its flagship cloud database service, MongoDB Atlas, supports flexible document models, vector search, and transactional capabilities built for modern cloud and AI-driven workloads.
- Industry
- Database Software
- Company size
- 5741 employees
- Founded
- 2007
- Location
- New York, New York, USA
- Funding stage
- Public Company
Funding
Public Company · $311M raised
- 2015-01-01Series F$80M
Leadership
President and Chief Executive Officer
Chief Financial Officer
Chief Technology Officer
Chief Customer Officer
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