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# Senior Software Engineer

- **Company:** MongoDB
- **Location:** New York, NY, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $95,000.0 - $187,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Databases, Database Queries, Software Debugging, Distributed Systems, MongoDB, Performance Tuning, Cloud Services, Software Systems, Data Processing, Apache Spark, Information Technology, Apache Flink, Apache Kafka, Stream Processing
- **Published:** September 3, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.manhattanjobs.com/job.asp?id=3375521370&tx=IT878THZ&pt=1&aff=0B19D771-A501-4A5E-8338-2A822B784D54&utm_source=Job%20Feed&utm_medium=textkernel&utm_campaign=DE&utm_term=0B19D771-A501-4A5E-8338-2A822B784D54

## About the Role

* Strong background in database internals or building core components for data processing systems (including query execution, storage engines, autotuning, and workload optimization)
 * 5+ years of experience in building database services, distributed systems, and/or foundational cloud services at scale
 * 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
 * Track record of identifying problems, implementing solutions, and delivering complex projects in distributed systems or databases
 * 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

About MongoDB

## Description

* Design, build, and deliver core components of the system in collaboration with other stakeholders
 * Help shape architecture, development practices, and escalation policies as the teams and the product grow
 * Mentor fellow engineers and assume ownership and accountability of projects


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