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Staff Engineer, Data Migration (India)

MongoDB· Data Migration
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Hybrid (Gurugram, India)Full-timePosted 1mo ago

About the role

Experienced Staff Engineer to lead backend services in MongoDB’s Data Migration team, focusing on real-time data migration from legacy relational databases to MongoDB using Java, Spring Boot, Kafka, Debezium. Hybrid role based in Gurugram, India.

Responsibilities

  • Architectural Leadership: Drive the architectural vision and technical strategy for the data migration engine and its surrounding ecosystem. Contribute core, foundational code that solves the hardest scalability problems and sets the standard for the rest of the team
  • Strategic Partnership: Partner closely with Engineering Leadership, Product Management, and Design to shape the technical roadmap. Anticipate future business needs and translate them into scalable, long-term technical initiatives
  • Engineering Excellence & Mentorship: Define and champion engineering best practices, patterns, and standards across multiple teams. Actively mentor Senior and Mid-level engineers, cultivating a culture of technical excellence and continuous learning
  • Participate in code reviews, design discussions, and contribute to the overall technical direction and roadmap of the team
  • Curiosity, a positive attitude, and a drive to continue learning
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills

Qualifications

  • 8+ years of commercial software development experience with at least one JVM language such as Java, preferably using the Spring ecosystem
  • Extensive experience with streaming data platforms such as Apache Kafka and Change Data Capture (CDC) tools like Debezium
  • Extensive experience with relational data modeling and hands-on experience with at least one SQL database (Postgres, MySQL, etc)
  • Exposure to client-side technologies such as JavaScript and React is a plus
  • Mentorship and leadership capabilities; ability to guide engineers on data structures, algorithms, and database design
  • Strong communication and collaboration skills

Skills

Required:JavaSpring FrameworkApache KafkaDebeziumSQL databases
Nice to have:JavaScriptReact

Benefits

  • Culture and wellbeing programs including employee affinity groups, fertility assistance and parental leave policy (as part of MongoDB culture)
Last updated Oct 15, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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