Senior Engineer

MongoDB seeks an experienced Senior Software Engineer to help level up IT and play a key role in building a new engineering team. This team works alongside the Internal Engineering department to build enterprise-grade software that enables coworkers to be more effective and efficient. As a Senior Software Engineer, you’ll take ownership of critical internal tools and platforms, drive technical decisions, and contribute at a high level to systems that support essential workflows across the organization.

We are looking to speak to candidates who are based in Gurugram for our hybrid working model.

Position Expectations

• Own the implementation and long-term maintenance of internal tools and platforms
• Lead technical design discussions and contribute to architectural decisions
• Write high-quality, maintainable code while setting a strong engineering example for the team
• Identify and proactively address technical debt, reliability risks, and scalability concerns
• Collaborate with engineers, product partners, and other stakeholders to prioritize and deliver high-impact work

Success Measures

• In three months, demonstrate strong ownership of one or more internal systems and contribute significantly to ongoing initiatives
• In three months, independently deliver meaningful improvements that reduce manual effort or operational friction
• In six months, have driven technical improvements or new tooling that measurably improves internal engineering efficiency, reliability, or velocity

Our ideal candidate

• Has 6+ years of professional software engineering experience
• Deep experience with at least one modern programming language (Python, Go, Rust, etc.)
• Strong technical judgment and the ability to independently solve complex engineering problems
• Excellent communication skills and comfort collaborating across teams and disciplines
• Comfortable working with modern infrastructure and delivery systems, including containerized applications, Kubernetes, and CI/CD tooling (e.g., Drone.io or similar)
• Collaborative, detail-oriented, and passionate about building reliable, usable software

Bonus Round

• Experience building and maintaining full-stack applications, from front-end UIs to backend API handlers to database migrations
• Experience designing systems or services used by other engineers or teams
• Knowledge of any of the following technologies: Next.js, FastAPI, React

About MongoDB

MongoDB is built for change, empowering our customers and our people to innovate at the speed of the market. We have redefined the data platform for the AI era, enabling builders to create, transform, and disrupt industries with software. MongoDB’s unified data platform, the most widely available, globally distributed data platform on the market, helps organizations modernize legacy workloads, embrace innovation, and unleash AI. Our cloud-native platform, MongoDB Atlas, is the only globally distributed, multi-cloud data platform and is available across AWS, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure.

With offices worldwide and over 67,000 customers, including 75% of the Fortune 100 and AI-native startups, relying on MongoDB for their most important applications, we’re powering the next era of software.

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