Staff Engineer, MongoDB
API Experience Team
Offers equity
Developer data platform
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Developer data platform
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
Offers equity
1001+ employees
Company mission
To empower innovators to create, transform, and disrupt industries by unleashing the power of software and data.
Role
Who you are
- We are seeking passionate, intrinsically motivated software engineers who consistently strive to grow their skills and aspire to take their careers to the next level
- Enjoys collaboration and being part of a team, with experience in technical leadership
- Proven expertise building production API platforms at scale, ideally for internal platform teams and/or enterprise-facing products
- Strong background in API lifecycle management, OpenAPI/Swagger or similar
- A track record of delivering backwards-compatible APIs and building systems that reduce the risk of breaking changes
- Strong communication skills — you’re equally comfortable writing an RFC, mentoring a teammate, or presenting to leadership
- Approachable, curious, and intellectually honest
What the job involves
- We’re looking for a Staff Engineer to lead the design and evolution of our API platform, which is central to how our enterprise customers and internal teams interact with our core database technologies
- This platform underpins mission-critical developer workflows, enables automation via declarative tools like Terraform, and ensures API standards across our ecosystem
- You’ll work at the intersection of platform architecture, developer experience, and API governance
- As a technical leader on the team, you’ll set the direction for how we build, version, secure, and evolve our APIs, ensuring they are standards-compliant, reliable, and easy to consume
- Shape the platform strategy in alignment with the company and product goals. Propose and lead initiatives that improve developer efficiency and customer satisfaction
- Evolve the API platform that powers customer-facing functionality across Atlas, enabling internal development teams to deliver features and serve enterprise customers at scale. Focus areas include platform lifecycle, availability, observability & developer enablement
- Ensure integration with modern auth standards, such as OAuth2 and OIDC, in a way that’s secure and compatible with popular client libraries
- Collaborate deeply with internal teams (e.g., engineering, product, SRE, security) to ensure the platform meets broad engineering needs
- Enable the downstream development of declarative tools (e.g., Terraform, Pulumi) by ensuring the API platform aligns with their workflows and state management paradigms
- Establish and evangelize best practices for API design, observability, code generation, and documentation across engineering teams, e.g. Improvement Proposal for APIs (IPA)
- Act as a technical mentor and leader, helping maintain a high bar of engineering excellence and decision-making
- Foster an inclusive and respectful work environment according to MongoDB's Core Values
- In 3 months, you'll have shipped code into production and collaborated with the team to solve challenging problems
- You will have built strong relationships with your team and the Atlas organization
- In 6 months, you'll have contributed to a large project, driving improvements in your areas of ownership
- In 12 months, you will have designed new features, led development work, and become a go-to expert on parts of the system
Application process
- During interviews, you will meet most of our team and have the opportunity to ask questions about working at MongoDB
Our take
MongoDB is an open-source, cross-platform, document-oriented database system. It stores data as JSON-like documents and is written in C++, Go, JavaScript and Python.
Essentially, the company develops tools and blueprints to help businesses and organisations modernise their legacy applications, migrating them to the MongoDB database and the MongoDB Atlas cloud database. With this initiative, MongoDB is particularly taking aim at Oracle customers with ageing applications running on the Oracle relational database system.
Since its release, MongoDB has become one of the most popularly used NoSQL database systems due to its ease of use and efficiency. It is also the fastest-growing database ecosystem, and boasts hundreds of millions of downloads. Recently, the company announced a partnership with Patronus AI, an automated evaluation and security platform, through which it will bring automated LLM evaluation and testing capabilities to enterprise customers.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
13% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 8 rounds)
Jan 2015
$80m
SERIES G
Oct 2013
$150m
SERIES F
Total funding: $311.1m
Company benefits
- Rich health insurance coverage
- Virtual & on-site fitness classes
- Health screenings & telemedicine
- Access to transgender-inclusive health insurance coverage
- Global and internal mobility opportunities
- Equity & Employee Stock Purchase Program
- Pension & retirement programs
- Income Protection
- Flexible PTO is offered to every US employee & competitive time off policies for non-US employees
- Employee Assistance Program
- Mental health counseling
- Free meditation app access
- Fertility & adoption financial assistance
- Parental counseling for new parents
- 20 weeks of fully paid gender neutral parental leave & flexible work arrangements
- 4 weeks of emergency care leave
Company HQ
Theater District, New York, NY
Leadership
Dwight Merriman
(Co-Founder)Previously CTO and Co-founder at DoubleClick for 10 years, and Chairman at AlleyCorp for 15 years.
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