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# Senior Software Engineer, Atlas Search

- **Company:** MongoDB
- **Location:** San Francisco, CA, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $126,000.0 - $248,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Java (Programming Language), Code Review, Software Debugging, Programming Tools, Distributed Systems, MongoDB, Software Engineering, Multithreading, System Availability, Large Language Models, Data Management
- **Published:** August 11, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=3ab2b7770aac2d1d

## About the Role

* 5+ years experience in data management/search systems, ideally with a strong distributed systems and infrastructure background
 * Experienced in the development and maintenance of concurrent, stateful services
 * Eager to shape the technological direction of a complex system and have the ability to lead initiatives through collaboration with others
 * Experienced in writing features, debugging and optimizing multithreaded applications written in Java
 * Familiarity with LLM based development tools in all aspects of the software development lifecycle
 * Bonus: experience with public cloud infrastructure, including aspects of hardware, capacity and high availability

## Description

* Lead complex projects across the MongoDB ecosystem, for instance, development of a new Search deployment framework within the MongoDB managed cloud
 * Set project level strategy, architect features, and lead projects to successful execution
 * Identify, design, and implement features enhancing our reliability, performance, security and efficiency
 * Perform code reviews with peers and make recommendations on how to improve our software development processes
 * Influence and grow team members through active mentoring and leading by example, * In 3 months, you'll contribute to the improvements in our management control plane
 * In 6 months, you'll be working on projects such as autoscaling deployments and metrics based performance analysis
 * In 12 months, you'll be building POCs, designing new features, and collaborating with other teams from across the company on complex projects


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