MongoDB
Senior Software Engineer, Stream Processing
New York City · Senior
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$11,717 more — $137,717 — moves this role to Level II and 2 lottery entries. That figure is inside the range the employer already advertised.
Based on the DOL prevailing wage for this occupation and worksite, a base salary of $137,717 would place this position at wage Level II. That figure is within the posted range, and I'd like to target it. This role classifies under "Software Developers" for prevailing-wage purposes.
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About the role
- Atlas Stream Processing enables developers to continuously process streaming data alongside critical application data stored in their database.
- The team operates like a startup within the company, a small group with real autonomy, responsible for everything from the core execution engine and stream processing stages.
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience in building database services, distributed systems, and/or foundational cloud services at scale
- Track record of identifying problems, implementing solutions, and delivering complex projects in distributed systems or databases
- Strong background in database internals or building core components for data processing systems (including query execution, storage engines, autotuning, and workload optimization)
- Proven success in designing, writing, testing, debugging, performance tuning, possessing a strong grip on the foundational material of computer science, and maintaining distributed and/or highly concurrent software systems in large, long-lived code bases
- Good verbal and written technical communication skills, desire to collaborate with colleagues, mentor fellow engineers, and assume project ownership and accountability
- Strong sense of ownership, accountability, and pride
Nice to have
- Hands‑on modern C++ experience in performance‑sensitive systems
- Background with stream processing or query engines.
- Exposure to systems such as Flink, Spark, Beam, Kafka Streams, or database query engines
- 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.
- Our compass at MongoDB is our Leadership Commitment, guiding how and why we make decisions, show up for each other, and win.
- It's what makes us MongoDB.
- Learn more about what it's like to work at MongoDB, and help us make an impact on the world!
Compensation
- Salary is one part of MongoDB's total compensation and benefits package.
- Please note, the base salary range listed below and the benefits in this paragraph are only applicable to U.S.-based candidates.
- MongoDB's base salary range for this role in the U.S. is:
Benefits
- Other benefits for eligible employees may include:
Company info
- Exposure to systems such as Flink, Spark, Beam, Kafka Streams, or database query engines About MongoDB MongoDB is built for change, empowering our customers and our people to innovate at the speed of the market.
- With offices worldwide and over 67,000 customers, including AI-native startups and approximately 75% of the Fortune 100, relying on MongoDB for their most important applications, we're powering the next era of software.
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