Software Engineer, MongoDB

• 2+ years of experience building production software, developer tools, internal platforms, or automation systems
• Software engineering fundamentals in API design, testing, error handling, and maintainability
• Experience building CLIs, libraries, test infrastructure, static analysis, or CI/CD workflows
• Ability to design systems that are usable by developers and reliable in automation
• Experience reasoning about correctness and safety with ambiguous input, nondeterministic output, false positives, or untrusted content
• Comfort in an evolving R&D environment where the right abstraction emerges through prototypes and feedback
• Written and verbal communication, including explaining technical trade-offs and aligning stakeholders across teams

Desirable

• The Agent Research and Tooling team, part of MongoDB's AI Builder Experience organization, owns the platform layer around agents: how teams author, distribute, evaluate, monitor, and improve agent skills and agent behavior
• We are hiring a software engineer to build and maintain the tooling, evaluation systems, and quality gates behind MongoDB's agent skills
• This is a software engineering role at the intersection of developer tooling, applied AI, and software quality
• You will take loosely defined agent and tooling problems, break them into workable plans, and ship durable internal systems: command-line tools, reusable libraries, evaluation harnesses, and CI workflows
• Build and maintain agent skills and the infrastructure to validate, evaluate, publish, and maintain them
• Design evaluation datasets and workflows that compare agent behavior against a baseline and produce actionable quality signals
• Build agent metrics and observability: skill selection and routing, success and failure outcomes, tool calls, latency, and token usage
• Design safety and quality gates for agent-authored content: rule packs, static analysis, confidence thresholds, structured verdicts, and bounded suppression
• Create CLIs, libraries, and MCP integrations that other repositories adopt and that run in local development and CI
• Integrate tooling into GitHub Actions and other CI workflows, including secrets, annotations, exit codes, and artifacts
• Build code-generation quality checks, such as anti-pattern catalogs and linting for AI-generated MongoDB code
• Investigate real failures such as nondeterministic results, false positives, and unsafe generated guidance, and turn them into reusable improvements
• Collaborate with engineers, security partners, and product teams; communicate trade-offs, risks, and ownership across teams
• In your first year, you will:
• Ship tooling that makes agent skills or developer workflows easier to test, review, and adopt
• Improve the quality and interpretability of evaluations, not just their count
• Convert recurring manual work and fragile scripts into documented, reusable automation
• Make security, correctness, and operational trade-offs explicit in the designs you ship
• Earn adoption from partner teams through clear interfaces and reliable CI
• Own projects independently while collaborating on shared systems