Staff Software Engineer, Agentic AI

MongoDB is a data platform company empowering organizations to modernize workloads and build AI applications. The Staff Software Engineer will provide technical leadership and implement core components of a platform that enables customers to build and deploy AI applications at scale. The role focuses on architecture, distributed systems infrastructure, platform development, mentoring, and delivery of complex projects.

Responsibilities:

• Work closely with product management, product engineering, product design peers as well as other teams within the company to define the first version and future evolution of the service
• Design, build and deliver well-tested core pieces of the platform in collaboration with other vested parties
• Contribute to shaping architecture, code reviews and development practices, developer experience as the teams and product grow
• Mentor fellow engineers and assume ownership and accountability of projects
• Be a force multiplier in our software development process. Enable teams to deliver great products through leadership and technical contributions

Requirements:

• Strong background in building core components for high scale compute and data distributed systems
• 8+ years experience of building distributed systems, and/or foundational cloud services at scale and an interest in working with Python, Go and Java
• Proven success in designing, writing, testing, debugging, performance tuning, possessing a strong grip on the foundational materials of computer science and maintaining distributed and/or highly concurrent software systems in large, long-lived code bases
• Track record of identifying problems, implementing solutions and delivering complex projects in distributed systems or databases
• Experience leading 15-20 people projects involving distributed systems infrastructure from conception to successful delivery
• Good verbal and written technical communication skills, desire to collaborate with colleagues
• Be a force multiplier in our software development process. Enable teams to deliver great products through leadership and technical contributions
• Eager to learn, with a strong technical background
• This role can be based out of one of our offices or remotely in the United States
• Bonus points for experience with containerization and orchestration platforms (e.g. Kubernetes) and AI frameworks and tools