Software Engineer, Data Migration

About the role

MongoDB is building a world-class team in North America to create tooling that helps customers modernize their applications and migrate their data from legacy relational databases to MongoDB in real-time.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and optimize the underlying data structures, algorithms, and database interactions that power our generative AI platform, code generation and migration tools.
• Craft sophisticated orchestration layers, robust integration points, and high-performance data systems that seamlessly connect and leverage advanced AI capabilities for code generation.
• Develop and maintain the data migration engine and core components of our generative AI orchestration platform.
• Collaborate with AI researchers, product management, and other engineers to design and implement cutting-edge products that solve complex customer challenges.

Requirements

• 2+ years of engineering experience in backend systems, distributed systems, or core platform development.
• Experience in one or several of Java, Rust, C/C++, and/or Python, with a strong understanding of systems-level programming, memory management, and performance tuning.
• Experience with streaming data platforms such as Apache Kafka and Change Data Capture (CDC) tools like Debezium.
• Experience with relational data modeling and hands-on experience with at least one SQL database (Postgres, MySQL, etc).
• Exposure to client-side technologies such as JavaScript and React is a plus.
• Good understanding of algorithms, data structures and their time and space complexity.
• Curiosity, a positive attitude, and a drive to continue learning.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.

Qualifications

• Familiarity with cloud-native distributed systems (e.g., Kubernetes) is a plus.
• Experience with NoSQL databases and understanding of their trade-offs is great, but not required. We'll teach you NoSQL.
• Contributions to relevant open-source projects are a plus.

Skills

• Contribute high-quality, well-tested backend code to the data migration engine and core components of our generative AI orchestration platform.
• Collaborate effectively with Product Management, AI researchers, and machine learning engineers and designers to build and deliver on the product roadmap.
• Work to develop robust and efficient backend services that orchestrate AI functionalities.
• Identify and address performance bottlenecks and architectural challenges in our systems, particularly within data flow and orchestration.
• Participate actively in code reviews to enforce best practices and patterns.
• Help troubleshoot and resolve complex technical issues in our distributed systems.
• Give and solicit feedback on technical design documents and pull requests.
• Perform tasks related to process such as CI/CD, quality, testing, etc.

Benefits

• Salary range: $106,000—$209,000 USD
• Equity
• 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