Senior Software Engineer, Developer Productivity

MongoDB is a complex, mission-critical database server that operates in a wide range of environments. Customers rely on its ability to meet high standards for Performance, Security, Availability, and Correctness. Achieving these standards requires robust developer tooling at every layer of the stack, from the underlying storage engine to the tools supporting our Atlas cloud offering. The Developer Productivity organization plays a vital role in enabling MongoDB engineers to ship products that meet our high company standards.

Within Developer Productivity, the Last Mile team works closely with teams across the company to identify challenges and solve them in ways that delight other development teams. Our engineers collaborate with stakeholders delivering critical features, pinpoint gaps in core infrastructure, and implement solutions that benefit all development teams. This role requires a deep empathy for stakeholders, a strong understanding of business impact, and a willingness to dive into the entire breadth of our tooling. This is a unique opportunity to drive broad impact on both the business and the daily workflows of teams throughout MongoDB.

This role can be based out of our Austin or New York City offices or remotely in the United States.

• Have 4+ years of experience working on software or software systems
• Have a strong customer focus, with the ability to identify and understand the core challenges customers face, even when they are not clearly expressed
• Demonstrate the ability to quickly learn, adapt to, and excel with new technologies, frameworks, and tools in dynamic environments
• Have experience working in Python
• Have experience working with compiled languages (this team interacts with, but does not write, C++ and Go code)
• Have experience designing and building tools to be used by other developers, including web based tools, APIs, and/or command line tools
• Have experience shipping systems in a Cloud environment such as Kubernetes and AWS or similar, and understanding concepts such as provisioning and deployment

• Collaborate with teams across the organization to understand their most pressing challenges and create solutions that address their needs
• Develop a broad, high level understanding of core systems used to build MongoDB products, and be able to help navigate and resolve issues that span across multiple teams
• Build tools to use across the development lifecycle to help teams work faster and ship higher quality products
• Provide internal support for our systems, answering questions and addressing technical issues as they arise
• Provide guidance and mentorship to junior team members, fostering their technical growth, professional development, and confidence in solving complex problems

After three months, you will have made contributions to in-progress software development projects, including providing feedback and input to design changes while the project is in progress. You will be able to reliably work on small features and bugs, and medium features in areas you have worked on. You will be in discussions about next steps for larger projects to carry out in the following quarter.

You will have led or been a major contributor on one or more substantial development projects. You will be regularly suggesting and evaluating large and small projects. You will be a subject matter expert across some of our systems, and will be able to answer questions about how they perform and operate.

You will regularly be leading or making major contributions to technical projects that have a substantial impact on our ability to reliably deliver a good experience for the developers that use our products at MongoDB. You will be a strong technical resource across all of our systems, and will be able to provide support and guidance regarding technical direction. You will be responsible for mentoring newer and more junior members of the team.

MongoDB is built for change, empowering our customers and our people to innovate at the speed of the market. We have redefined the database for the AI era, enabling innovators to create, transform, and disrupt industries with software. MongoDB’s unified database platform—the most widely available, globally distributed database on the market—helps organizations modernize legacy workloads, embrace innovation, and unleash AI. Our cloud-native platform, MongoDB Atlas, is the only globally distributed, multi-cloud database and is available across AWS, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure.

With offices worldwide and nearly 60,000 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. Learn more about what it’s like to work at MongoDB, and help us make an impact on the world!

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REQ ID: 3263246842