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Staff Engineer

MongoDB · Posted Sep 29

Modern database platform, cloud database-as-a-service, vector search, and developer data services

GurugramFull-timeHybridLead/Staff8+ years₹70.0L–₹1.1Cr yearly84 applicants
Database SoftwareCloud ComputingNoSQLArtificial IntelligenceEnterprise SoftwarePublic Company
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About the role

MongoDB's Application Modernization Platform (AMP) helps organizations modernize legacy applications and move workloads and associated data from relational databases to MongoDB. The Platform team builds the shared foundations that make AMP a cohesive product, connecting specialized tools and services through consistent interfaces, integrating them with AI agents and development environments, and making them secure, observable, and straightforward to deploy and operate. This Staff Engineer role sets technical direction and leads delivery of the platform, defining service boundaries, making build-versus-integrate decisions, and contributing foundational code.

What you will do

  • Architectural Vision & Strategy: Formulate core service layers and integration frameworks enabling seamless AMP functionality. Define strict service-level boundaries with collaborating engineering orgs, iteratively maturing platform primitives using production workloads
  • Agent & Tooling Integration: Spearhead engineering initiatives to expose platform capabilities via resilient CLI tools and APIs, connecting them cleanly with autonomous agent frameworks while managing tenant isolation, auth state, and operational context
  • Deployment & Lifecycle Engineering: Optimize distribution, automated upgrades, and runtime execution across client enterprise environments. Establish holistic telemetry, structured logging, and actionable diagnostics to streamline incident recovery and troubleshooting
  • Security & Enterprise Quality: Work closely alongside security engineers to safeguard customer intellectual property, ensuring robust execution isolation and embedding security controls directly into release pipelines
  • Cross-Functional Strategy Execution: Align product management, field teams, and external technical partners to translate user demands into high-impact roadmaps, driving implementation from discovery through widespread client adoption
  • Technical Leadership & Excellence: Author core infrastructure components, lead rigorous architectural reviews, and elevate team capabilities through shared design paradigms, thorough documentation, and hands-on mentoring
  • Develop comprehensive mastery of system architectures, user journeys, and technical constraints while fostering key cross-functional partnerships
  • Unify stakeholders around a strategic engineering initiative, defining architectural boundaries, delivery roadmaps, and baseline operational metrics
  • Deploy a high-impact core component that validates key design paradigms and eliminates key operational friction for internal adopters
  • Spearhead production rollout of major shared services with defined interfaces, comprehensive telemetry, and sustainable operational framework support
  • Drive quantifiable progress in target performance indicators, including onboarding speed, integration complexity, system resilience, and mean time to resolution
  • Influence overall technical direction alongside product partners, establishing systematic cadences for architectural reviews and execution milestones
  • Establish foundational platform primitives powering enterprise-wide capabilities, ensuring high-availability operations and seamless upgrade paths
  • Demonstrate tangible efficiency gains across product teams by significantly lowering maintenance overhead and accelerating modernization deployment speed
  • Serve as a key technical champion, mentoring talent, elevating engineering standards, and participating actively in talent acquisition

Skills used in this role

MongoDBAWSGoogle CloudMicrosoft AzureLLMAI AgentsAPIsCLISDKsRelational DatabasesDistributed SystemsContainerizationObservabilityContinuous DeliveryAuthenticationTelemetryPerformance TuningAutomated TestingTechnical LeadershipMentorshipCommunication

What the employer is looking for

  • Technical Leadership: Over 8 years in software engineering and production operations, with a proven history of championing major technical strategies and deploying resilient, scalable architectures
  • Platform Engineering: Deep practical expertise architecting common frameworks, distributed architectures, or core developer tooling leveraged across multiple organizations or customer environments
  • API & System Design: Track record of establishing and refining service boundaries, interfaces, and data schemas with a sharp focus on backward compatibility, extensibility, and smooth adoption
  • Operational Rigor: Practical expertise maintaining mission-critical services, driving observability, incident recovery, performance tuning, automated test suites, and continuous delivery workflows
  • Security Integration: Demonstrated success constructing safe integrations, implementing strict auth mechanisms while protecting proprietary client code, sensitive data, and authentication tokens
  • Cross-Functional Impact: Ability to spearhead architectural direction across team boundaries, communicate complex tradeoffs, offer constructive guidance, and mentor engineers throughout execution
  • Product Sense: Sharp product judgment that converts developer requirements and user feedback into clear roadmaps, tangible milestones, and clear success criteria

Preferred qualifications

  • AI Agent & LLM Integration: Hands-on experience embedding intelligent agents or language model workflows into enterprise platforms, including defining execution contexts, robust tool interfaces, and mitigating nondeterministic operational behavior
  • Developer Tooling & Distribution: Expertise delivering developer-centric software—such as CLIs, custom SDKs, containerized architectures, or self-hosted components—deployed directly within client-managed infrastructure
  • Domain Expertise: In-depth background in application modernization, relational database systems, MongoDB ecosystems, automated code transformation, and enterprise data migration pipelines

Benefits and support

  • Employee affinity groups
  • Fertility assistance
  • Generous parental leave policy

About MongoDB

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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

Sequoia CapitalIntel CapitalRed HatAlleyCorp
  • 2015-01-01Series F$80M

Leadership

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Chirantan “CJ” Desai

President and Chief Executive Officer

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Mike Berry

Chief Financial Officer

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Jim Scharf

Chief Technology Officer

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Erica Volini

Chief Customer Officer

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