Software Engineer 3, Atlas Clusters Platform

About the Role

MongoDB is seeking a Software Engineer 3 to join the Atlas Clusters Platform team. The team is responsible for building MongoDB Atlas, our database-as-a-service offering. Atlas allows users to deploy fault-tolerant, secure, globally distributed MongoDB clusters in minutes.

The Atlas Clusters Platform team develops the foundational orchestration platform behind MongoDB Atlas. Our systems drive cluster planning and execution, evolve the Atlas control plane toward service-oriented architecture, and provide critical infrastructure that helps Atlas run safely and efficiently across cloud environments.

What You'll Do

• Build and design new features for MongoDB Atlas
• Contribute to and lead complex technical projects
• Work closely with product and design teams, considering the user's perspective while building technical solutions
• Work with customers and support engineers to fix issues
• Collaborate with team members to develop our codebase, best practices, and design principles
• Learn from and mentor other team members

Qualifications

• At least 3 years of professional software development experience
• Skilled at writing large-scale, distributed backend systems in a compiled language (Java, C#, Go, etc.)
• Comfortable working across the stack of a modern web application (e.g., React, TypeScript, Kubernetes)
• Experience with at least one major cloud provider technology (AWS, Azure, GCP)
• Experience leading the launch of a new feature and maintaining it in production
• Eager to solve tough problems and highly curious, collaborative, and motivated
• Excellent communication skills

Success Measures

• In 3 months: Shipped code into production and collaborated with the team to solve tough problems
• In 6 months: Contributed to a large project
• In 12 months: Designed new features, led development work, and become a go-to expert on parts of the system