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Software Engineer (Backup Team)

MongoDB· Cloud Services / Backup Team
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Hybrid (New York City, NY)$0Full-timePosted 5d ago

About the role

Backend-focused software engineering role within MongoDB’s Cloud Services, specifically the Backup Team responsible for the Backup Agent (Go), server-side infrastructure (Java), and UI (JavaScript) to enable fast, reliable, and scalable backups for MongoDB Atlas and related products.

Responsibilities

  • Work closely with product teams, considering the user’s perspective while helping the team achieve success
  • Collaborate with team members over best practices and core concepts
  • Hold yourself accountable to your actions, maintaining the balance between accomplishing goals with research & development
  • Own our core values and adhere to them in your work
  • Stay up to date with best practices in web engineering

Qualifications

  • Skilled at writing large-scale, distributed backend systems in a compiled language (Java, C#, Go, etc.)
  • Fond of chasing down tough problems in a distributed systems environment
  • Cool under pressure - has wrangled production crises
  • Experienced with Linux, and able to correlate application performance problems with underlying hardware limits
  • Comfortable working across the stack of a modern web application
  • Always striving to expand their knowledge
  • Curious, collaborative and intellectually honest

Skills

Required:Distributed backend developmentJavaLinuxWeb stack familiarityProblem solving under pressure
Nice to have:Go

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
  • transgender-inclusive health insurance coverage
  • health benefits offerings
Last updated Oct 22, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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