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.
• Build and optimize the data migration suite using a modern technology stack, including Java, Spring Boot, Kafka, Debezium, and React.
• Work on critical components that ensure the scalability, efficiency, and reliability of our services, collaborating closely with AI researchers, product management, and other engineers.
• 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.
• Deliver at least one large-scale feature that spans the entire tech stack within six months.
• Become a key contributor to our backend stack, capable of taking on complex features independently.
• Help recruit and interview new members of the team.
• Collaborate effectively with other teams at MongoDB on cross-functional projects.

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.
• A good understanding of algorithms, data structures, and their time and space complexity.
• A 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 nice to have.
• 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

• Strong background in computer science fundamentals, systems design.
• Experience in the Java ecosystem.
• Experience with streaming systems.
• Experience with data-intensive applications.

Benefits

Salary is one part of MongoDB's total compensation and benefits package. 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, and health benefits offerings.