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Staff Engineer

MongoDB· Engineering
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Hybrid (New York City, NY)$121k - $327kfull-timePosted 4w ago

About the role

Staff Engineer to provide technical direction and implement core parts of a new platform enabling deployment at scale of AI applications using MongoDB. Focus on leading high-visibility projects to improve performance, scalability, and reliability of distributed systems infrastructure for the new product.

Responsibilities

  • Work closely with product management, product engineering, product design peers as well as other teams within the company to define the first version and future evolution of the service
  • Design, build and deliver well-tested core pieces of the platform in collaboration with other vested parties
  • Contribute to shaping architecture, code reviews and development practices, developer experience as the teams and product grow
  • Mentor fellow engineers and assume ownership and accountability of projects

Qualifications

  • Strong background in building core components for high scale compute and data distributed systems
  • 8+ years experience of building distributed systems, and/or foundational cloud services at scale and an interest in working with Python, Go and Java
  • Proven success in designing, writing, testing, debugging, performance tuning, possessing a strong grip on the foundational materials of computer science and maintaining distributed and/or highly concurrent software systems in large, long-lived code bases
  • Track record of identifying problems, implementing solutions and delivering complex projects in distributed systems or databases
  • Experience leading 15-20 people projects involving distributed systems infrastructure from conception to successful delivery
  • Good verbal and written technical communication skills, desire to collaborate with colleagues
  • Bonus points for experience with containerization and orchestration platforms (e.g. Kubernetes) and AI frameworks and tools
  • Be a force multiplier in our software development process. Enable teams to deliver great products through leadership and technical contributions
  • Eager to learn, with a strong technical background

Skills

Required:Distributed systemsPythonGoLeadership / People management
Nice to have:Java

Benefits

  • equity
  • participation in the employee stock purchase program
  • flexible paid time off
  • 20 weeks fully-paid gender-neutral parental leave
  • fertility and adoption assistance
  • 401(k) plan
  • mental health counseling
  • access to transgender-inclusive health insurance coverage
  • health benefits offerings
Last updated Oct 22, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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