MongoDB

MongoDB

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Senior Software Engineer, Public Backup

Posted Aug 5, 2026

Role at a glance

Salary
$126K – $248K/yr
Location
NY, New York, United States New York City, New York, United States
Work arrangement
Hybrid
Employment
Full-time

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Role Summary

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This Software Engineer role is part of MongoDB’s Backup Team within the Cloud Services Team, working on infrastructure and user-facing systems for MongoDB Atlas backups. The team builds and operates the Backup Agent, server-side infrastructure, and backup user interface to improve reliability, performance, scalability, and ease of use.

What You'll Do

  • Work closely with product teams while considering the user’s perspective.
  • Collaborate with team members on best practices and core concepts.
  • Balance accomplishing goals with research and development.
  • Take responsibility for planning and execution of major features while representing Engineering with Product and Design.
  • Stay up to date with best practices in web engineering.

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Qualifications

Skilled at writing large-scale, distributed backend systems in a compiled language; experienced with Linux and modern web applications; able to correlate application performance problems with underlying hardware limits.

Required

  • Large-scale distributed backend systems
  • Compiled language such as Java, C#, or Go
  • Distributed systems
  • Linux
  • Modern web applications
  • Production crises
  • Application performance and underlying hardware limits

Original job description

Content provided by the employer

The MongoDB Cloud Services Team is a diverse group of contributors working together to help our users manage MongoDB at global scale. The Cloud Team is responsible for MongoDB Atlas: our database as a service offering, and fastest growing product, which allows users to deploy fault-tolerant, globally distributed MongoDB clusters in just minutes.

The Backup Team delivers essential infrastructure to help our customers in their hour of need - providing the ability to quickly restore a massive, distributed database to any point in time at the click of a button. The Backup Team’s mission is to make MongoDB backup more reliable, faster, and also cheaper.  This team is responsible for the Backup Agent (Go), the extensive server-side infrastructure (Java) which manages 100s of TB of data and processes billions of operations per day, and the user interface (Javascript)  that customers use to manage their backups.  Common project themes are performance, scaling, and ease of use. 

We are looking to speak to candidates who are based in New York for our hybrid working model.

We're looking for someone who is

  • Skilled at writing large-scale, distributed backend systems in a compiled language (Java, C#, Go, etc.)
  • Fond of chasing down tough problems in a distributed systems environment
  • Cool under pressure - has wrangled production crises, and secretly finds this a little fun
  • Experienced with Linux, and able to correlate application performance problems with underlying hardware limits
  • Comfortable working across the stack of a modern web application
  • Always striving to expand their knowledge
  • Curious, collaborative and intellectually honest 

Responsibilities

  • Work closely with product teams, considering the user’s perspective while helping the team achieve success
  • Collaborate with team members over best practices and core concepts
  • Hold yourself accountable to your actions, maintaining the balance between accomplishing goals with research & development
  • Own our core values and adhere to them in your work, and
  • Stay up to date with best practices in web engineering 

Success Measures

A Software Engineer will be successful in this role when they

  • Are open, honest and willing to contribute and collaborate with others
  • Develop confidence in finding their way across the platform
  • Can take responsibility for the planning and execution of a major feature, representing Engineering when working with Product and Design
  • Are willing to learn and contribute to all parts of the stack
  • Are resolute in their approach to problem solving, balancing the needs of their team with the willingness to get to the bottom of issues

About MongoDB

MongoDB is built for change, empowering our customers and our people to innovate at the speed of the market. We have redefined the database for the AI era, enabling innovators to create, transform, and disrupt industries with software. MongoDB’s unified database platform, the most widely available, globally distributed database 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 database and is available across AWS, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure.

With offices worldwide and over 60,000 customers, including 75% of the Fortune 100 and AI-native startups, relying on MongoDB for their most important applications, we’re powering the next era of software.

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. 

To drive the personal growth and business impact of our employees, we’re committed to developing a supportive and enriching culture for everyone. From employee affinity groups, to fertility assistance and a generous parental leave policy, we value our employees’ wellbeing and want to support them along every step of their professional and personal journeys. Learn more about what it’s like to work at MongoDB, and help us make an impact on the world!

MongoDB is committed to providing any necessary accommodations for individuals with disabilities within our application and interview process. To request an accommodation due to a disability, please inform your recruiter.

MongoDB, Inc. provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type and makes all hiring decisions without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.

REQ ID: 2273461616

MongoDB’s base salary range for this role is posted below. Compensation at the time of offer is unique to each candidate and based on a variety of factors such as skill set, experience, qualifications, and work location. Salary is one part of MongoDB’s total compensation and benefits package. Other benefits for eligible employees may include: equity, participation in the employee stock purchase program, flexible paid time off, 20 weeks fully-paid gender-neutral parental leave, fertility and adoption assistance, 401(k) plan, mental health counseling, access to transgender-inclusive health insurance coverage, and health benefits offerings. 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:
$126,000$248,000 USD
MongoDB

About the company

MongoDB

Large Enterprise

MongoDB is a leading provider of modern, general-purpose databases designed for scalability, performance, and flexibility. Founded in 2007, the company offers an innovative, open-source database platform that allows developers to store and manage data in JSON-like formats, enabling easier and faster application development. With a strong focus on data accessibility and cloud integration, MongoDB serves a diverse range of industries, empowering businesses to harness the power of data and build intelligent applications. As a significant player in the tech landscape, MongoDB supports developers and organizations with robust resources and a vibrant community.