Senior Python Engineer
About the role
The Database Experience team builds the libraries and tools that developers use day-to-day working with MongoDB. Our mission is to increase developer adoption, satisfaction, and retention by providing a reliable, enjoyable interface for developers and other end-users. We're looking for someone who will enjoy designing, writing, and supporting open source libraries for the Python ecosystem developers that use MongoDB. This is an opportunity to make a major impact at MongoDB as Python is one of the most popular runtimes for MongoDB users, and our driver has over 3 million daily PyPI downloads.
Responsibilities
- Develop and support the MongoDB Python drivers and subsidiary libraries (PyMongo, Django MongoDB Backend, PyMongoArrow, LangChain MongoDB) and related software, collaborating with peers in our distributed worldwide engineering team
- Write and maintain open source specifications defining common behavior and APIs shared across all of our drivers
- Investigate bugs and support requests from commercial customers, open source users, and internal users for the libraries our team maintains
- Work with our Product and Server teams on designs and specifications for new user-facing MongoDB features
Requirements
You might be right for this role if you...
- Have substantial experience writing high-quality software in Python
- Have extensive knowledge in Python tools and frameworks, scientific Python, and web development frameworks
- Have practical experience with AI/ML frameworks and technologies in Python, including large language models and agentic tools (a plus)
- Have an interest in learning and staying up-to-date with Python ecosystem trends and best practices and incorporating them into your work
- Can make pragmatic design decisions, balancing tradeoffs such as usability, maintainability, and delivery time
- Want to, or already do, participate in open source software development and communities, both online via e.g. GitHub and optionally through conferences and speaking engagements
- Communicate well, internally and externally, both verbally and in writing
- Enjoy collaborating with teammates and mentoring junior engineers and interns
- Are self-motivated, organized, and have strong time management skills
Success Milestones
- Within one month: Understand the high-level architecture of the drivers and how MongoDB works, and complete a few small bug fixes and/or feature tickets
- Within three months: Contribute effectively day-to-day, fixing bugs, implementing features, investigating and responding to open source user and customer issues, and reviewing your peers' code
- Within six months: Implement major, planned new features, contribute to our common driver specifications, ship a major feature in an open source library, and collaborate with the Product team to help craft our roadmap
- Within twelve months: Significantly improve the quality, performance, and maintainability of our codebase, and take the lead in designing and specifying major new features
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.
Benefits
Other benefits for eligible employees may include:
- 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
Pay
MongoDB’s base salary range for this role in the U.S. is: $126,000—$248,000 USD.