Senior Software Engineer

MongoDB

Confirmed live 2 days ago High trust
Remote

Quick summary

Work type
Remote
Location
Remote
Salary
$126,000–$248,000 / yr
Posted
32 days ago
Freshness
Confirmed live 2 days ago

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Salary context

Above market

How this pay compares to similar roles

Similar $169k
This role $187k
$104k most similar roles pay here $263k

This role pays more than 73% of similar roles. Most pay $149,500–$188,277 — the shaded band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $187k versus about $169k for comparable roles.

Based on 240 similar postings.

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About MongoDB

MongoDB is a leading American software company that develops and provides commercial support for a popular, source-available document database. Designed to handle unstructured and structured data natively, its platform is purpose-built for modern cloud applications, analytics, and AI experiences.

MongoDB currently has 311 open roles on FindRole.

Listed pay typically runs $126,000–$226,000 across 95 roles with salary data.

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At a glance

TL;DR · Senior Software Engineer

As a Senior Software Engineer on the Developer Tools Team within the Database Experience department, you will build tools that allow users to interact with their data and monitor the health and performance of MongoDB deployments. You will work on various APIs and customer-facing UIs, including those for MongoDB Compass and Atlas Data Explorer. This role requires a full stack engineer capable of handling both frontend and backend tasks while designing and architecting modern, scalable, high availability web applications in distributed environments. The ideal candidate possesses experience with databases and potentially has skills in TypeScript, React, Node.js, and managing an ecosystem of dependencies. Additional relevant technical expertise includes websocket based client to server communication and developing microservice based architectures using Kubernetes, specifically focused on solving problems related to database internals and tuning mechanisms like indexing.

What does a Software Engineer earn in Remote?

Median $204500 from 415 postings across 57 companies.

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What you'll do

  • Develop and maintain full-stack features for both frontend and backend components of developer tools.
  • Build APIs and customer-facing UIs to help users interact with their stored data.
  • Create tools that allow users to monitor the health and performance of MongoDB deployments.
  • Design and architect modern, scalable, and high-availability web applications.
  • Solve complex technical problems within a distributed environment.
  • Maintain an ecosystem of dependencies using TypeScript, React, and Node.js.
  • Support microservice-based architectures and manage communication via websocket-based protocols.

What we're looking for

  • Must be a full stack engineer willing to perform both frontend and backend tasks.
  • Must have experience with the design and architecture of modern, scalable, high availability web applications.
  • Must have experience working with databases.
  • Must be a United States citizen.
  • Knowledge of database internals and tuning mechanisms, particularly indexing (preferred).
  • Experience in TypeScript, React, and Node.js, especially maintaining an ecosystem of dependencies (preferred).
  • Experience with websocket based client to server communication (preferred).
  • US citizenship.

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