← All roles

Senior Staff Engineer

MongoDB· Gurugram Products & Technology
Apply on company site
Hybrid (Gurugram)full-timePosted 2w ago

About the role

Senior Staff Engineer to provide technical direction, architecture, and implement core parts of a new platform enabling deployment of AI applications using MongoDB. Hybrid role based in Gurugram.

Responsibilities

  • Work closely with research, 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
  • 15+ 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 or experience working through multiple staff engineers in different squads and leading the successful delivery of the projects
  • Good verbal and written technical communication skills, desire to collaborate with colleagues
  • Bonus points for experience with containerization and orchestration platforms (eg. 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 systems design and developmentLeadership and mentoringCommunication
Nice to have:PythonGoJavaContainerization and orchestration (Kubernetes)AI frameworks and tools

Benefits

  • Inclusion
  • Culture Blog
  • Fertility assistance and generous parental leave policy
  • Employee affinity groups
  • Supportive and enriching culture for wellbeing
Last updated Oct 8, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
MongoDB logo

About MongoDB

The World’s Leading Modern Database

Get your ideas to market faster with a flexible, AI-ready database. MongoDB makes working with data easy.

DatabaseAIUnstructured DataStructured DataRecommendation enginesQ&A systemsAnomaly detectionGen AI
Company profileWebsite

More open roles at MongoDB