Software Engineer
Company: MongoDB
Location: New York City
Salary: $106k - $209k per year
Type: Full-time
Posted: 2026-08-03
About this role
- MongoDB is seeking a Software Engineer 3 to join the Atlas Clusters Organization. The organization is responsible for building MongoDB Atlas, our database as a service offering and fastest growing product
- Atlas allows users to deploy fault-tolerant, secure, globally distributed MongoDB clusters in just minutes. This includes developing software to interface with the three major cloud providers (AWS, Azure, and GCP) in order to bring security, durability, availability, and performance to all deployments of MongoDB
- The Atlas Clusters Security team creates a first-in-class cloud database security experience for our wide range of sophisticated customers. Our team develops and maintains systems for cluster networking, data encryption, database authentication, and more–enabling countless mission critical applications across the world
- Build and design new features for MongoDB Atlas
- Contribute to and lead complex technical projects
- Work closely with product and design teams, considering the user’s perspective while building technical solutions
- Work with customers and support engineers to fix issues
- Collaborate with team members to develop our codebase, best practices, and design principles
- Learn from and mentor other team members
- Join an on-call rotation to support Atlas’ production services
- Success Measures:
- In 3 months, you’ll have shipped code into production and collaborated with the team to solve tough problems
- In 6 months, you’ll have contributed to a large project
- In 12 months, you’ll have designed new features, led development work, and become a go-to expert on parts of the system- Has led the launch of a new feature and maintained it in production
- Is skilled at writing large-scale, distributed backend systems in a compiled language (Java, Go, etc.)
- Is eager to solve tough problems
- Has excellent communication skills
- Has experience with at least one major cloud provider technology (AWS, Azure, GCP)
- Is comfortable working across t...