Senior Software Engineer, MongoDB
$118-231k
Developer data platform
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Developer data platform
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$118-231k
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
- Experienced in distributed systems, with at least 6+ years of backend engineering experience (Java, Go, or similar)
- Skilled in streaming data pipelines, ideally with Apache Flink, Kafka, or Kinesis
- Familiar with service-oriented architectures (SOA) and inter-service communication using gRPC or REST
- Strong understanding of AWS (or other hyperscalers), cloud networking, and infrastructure-as-code patterns
- Knowledgeable in encryption, authentication, and secure data handling for multi-tenant SaaS systems
- Comfortable working in high-scale environments with millions of events and alerts per day
- A strong communicator, collaborator, and a problem solver
What the job involves
- We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join the Cloud Core Alerts Platform team, building scalable, fault-tolerant, and highly available systems that process millions of events and alerts in real time
- Alert Streaming Systems: Real-time alerting pipelines using Apache Flink and Amazon Kinesis, delivering critical insights for MongoDB Atlas customers
- Event Systems: SOA-based event platforms leveraging gRPC and streaming architectures to power the MongoDB activity feed at scale
- Communication Systems: Distributed services to deliver alert notifications through multiple channels (email, SMS, Slack, PagerDuty) with reliability and resilience
- Third-Party Integrations: Securely managing customer credentials and integrating with external observability providers, ensuring encryption at rest and in transit
- Cross-team Collaboration: Partnering with the broader Customer Observability teams to provide unified telemetry and monitoring experiences
- Design and build distributed systems that process millions of events per second with high availability and low latency
- Lead end-to-end projects from design to production, ensuring scalability, observability, and operational excellence
- Evolve our streaming alerting and eventing platforms, improving reliability, throughput, and developer experience
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to integrate alerting, event, and communication services into the broader customer observability ecosystem
- Develop secure, multi-tenant integrations with third-party providers, handling sensitive customer credentials safely
- Champion best practices in distributed systems design, including resilience, scalability, and fault tolerance
- Mentor and guide other engineers, sharing expertise on distributed architectures and streaming technologies
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.
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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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