Senior Software Engineer, Search Deployments Infrastructure

MongoDB

Confirmed live 2 days ago High trust
Hybrid

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Work type
Hybrid
Location
San Francisco, CA
Salary
$126,000–$248,000 / yr
Posted
30 days ago
Freshness
Confirmed live 2 days ago

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Above market

How this pay compares to similar roles

Similar $173k
This role $187k
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This role pays more than 71% of similar roles. Most pay $149,012–$197,287 — the shaded band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $187k versus about $173k for comparable roles.

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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.

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TL;DR · Senior Software Engineer, Search Deployments Infrastructure

As a Senior Software Engineer, Search Deployments Infrastructure on the Atlas Search team, you will design and develop next-generation infrastructure for semantic and vector search. You will lead complex projects within the MongoDB ecosystem, including developing new deployment frameworks, architecting features, and improving reliability, performance, security, and efficiency. Your daily work involves building a cloud-based distributed system that handles data ingestion, query execution, and performance for both relevance-based and vector search. The role requires expertise in Java to develop and optimize multithreaded applications, as well as experience with concurrent, stateful services and public cloud infrastructure. You will also utilize LLM-based development tools throughout the software lifecycle. This technical role focuses on solving the complexities of scaling search capabilities for users who need to execute complex queries using the MongoDB Query Language.

What does a Software Engineer earn in California?

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What you'll do

  • Design and develop next-generation semantic and vector search infrastructure for cloud services.
  • Lead complex projects including the development of new search deployment frameworks within MongoDB managed cloud.
  • Architect features and set project-level strategies to ensure successful execution of technical goals.
  • Implement features that improve system reliability, performance, security, and efficiency.
  • Perform code reviews and recommend improvements to software development processes.
  • Develop, debug, and optimize multithreaded applications written in Java.
  • Build proofs of concept and design new features for the search management control plane.
  • Manage projects involving autoscaling deployments and metrics-based performance analysis.

What we're looking for

  • Must have 5+ years of experience in data management or search systems.
  • Must have a strong background in distributed systems and infrastructure.
  • Experience developing and maintaining concurrent, stateful services is required.
  • Must be experienced in writing, debugging, and optimizing multithreaded applications written in Java.
  • Familiarity with LLM based development tools across the software development lifecycle.
  • Experience with public cloud infrastructure including hardware, capacity, and high availability (preferred).
  • Must be located in the San Francisco Bay Area for a hybrid working model.

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