Software Engineer jobs in United States, New York

• Build and design new features for MongoDB Atlas
• Contribute to and lead complex technical projects
• Work closely with product and design teams, considering the user’s perspective while building technical solutions
• Work with customers and support engineers to fix issues
• Collaborate with team members to develop our codebase, best practices, and design principles
• Learn from and mentor other team members

• Has at least 5 years of professional software development experience
• Is skilled at writing large-scale, distributed backend systems in a compiled language (Java, C#, Go, etc.)
• Is comfortable working across the stack of a modern web application (e.g. React, TypeScript)
• Has experience with at least one major cloud provider technology (AWS, Azure, GCP)
• Has led the launch of a new module and maintained it in production
• Is eager to solve tough problems
• Has excellent communication skills
• Is curious, collaborative, and motivated

• In 3 months, you'll have shipped code into production and collaborated with the team to solve tough problems
• In 6 months, you'll have contributed to a large project
• In 12 months, you'll have designed new features, led development work, and become a go-to expert on parts of the system

We’re also investing in , a specialized backend service for building AI agents to help engineers debug tasks. Written in TypeScript, Sage is part of our push to bring AI-powered tooling to the heart of our developer productivity ecosystem.

• Design, build, and optimize web applications in React, GraphQL, and TypeScript, focusing on performance and user experience
• Lead development on Spruce and Parsley, delivering data-rich, highly interactive experiences that scale to massive CI workloads
• Collaborate with backend engineers working in Go and TypeScript to build seamless integrations between frontend and backend services
• Contribute to Sage, developing AI-powered agentic flows that help engineers debug tasks more effectively
• Ensure best practices in testing (Cypress), monitoring, and reliability
• Mentor team members and help shape the technical and cultural direction of our team

• 5+ years of strong experience in React and TypeScript
• Experience working with backend systems (experience in a statically typed compiled language like Go is a plus)
• Interest in developing agentic services and working with AI-powered developer tooling
• Track record of designing and implementing performant, large-scale web apps
• Familiarity with end-to-end testing frameworks such as Cypress or playwright
• Strong fundamentals in software engineering, including algorithms, data structures, and systems design
• Ability to thrive in environments with high impact and uncertainty, driving projects from 0→1 and beyond

• In three months, you’ll have contributed to Spruce or Parsley, shipping improvements in performance or user experience. You’ll understand the architecture and be in discussions about Sage’s AI-driven services
• In six months, you’ll have led development on a substantial feature in Spruce or Parsley, and contributed to Sage’s AI agentic workflows. You’ll be recognized as a go-to person for frontend performance and developer experience
• In twelve months, you’ll be initiating and leading projects that shape the future of developer productivity at MongoDB, across frontend, log analysis, and AI agentic services. You’ll mentor teammates and influence architectural direction on new greenfield projects.

This role can be based out of our New York City office or remotely in the region.

• Lead medium sized, full-stack projects from technical design to delivery
• Collaborate with colleagues at all stages of project lifecycle (ideation, requirements gathering, design, execution, and delivery)
• Own our , and exemplify them in your work
• Continue to learn and be curious in growing your career!

• 2+ years of professional experience building full-stack web applications
• Proficient in a modern compiled programming language (Java, Go, C#, C++, etc.)
• Willingness to learn JavaScript and/or TypeScript along with modern frontend technologies (React, Redux, etc.); prior experience a plus
• Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal
• Is collaborative, empathetic, and intellectually honest

• In 1 month you’ll have shipped code into production
• In 3 months, you’ll have collaborated and delivered on a project with other engineers on the team
• In 6 months, you’ll have led the technical design, execution, and delivery of a project

This role can be based out of our New York City or Seattle offices or remotely in the United States.

The MongoDB Product Security organization works with software engineers to design, implement, and operate systems in a manner that protects customer data. It is a multidisciplinary team that covers product, software, cloud, infrastructure, and operational security concerns. The team does the following:

• Build a developer driven security program where there is tight integration with engineering artifacts, process, and tooling
• Use software architecture and coding patterns to reduce the impact of security issues
• Be security subject matter experts for our tech stack and products

• You will take ownership, define strategy, and drive improvement for parts of our program such as fuzzing, threat modeling, secrets management, or container security
• Advocate for and lead complex security projects from inception through completion
• Drive architecture, patterns, and processes across cloud engineering that make security the easiest path
• Partner closely with engineering teams to design and implement security controls across our software and systems
• Research and POC new attacks against our systems. Plan and perform product security assessments including architecture review threat modeling, code review, pen testing and general security consulting to proactively build security controls
• Serve as a security subject matter expert for software security and architecture
• Partner with cloud detection and response to create new capabilities or respond to security events
• Educate the engineering org on security through CTFs, lunch-and-learns, and one-on-one mentorship

• 7 years of experience in application security, software security, or product security
• Demonstrated expertise in C++ programming to thoroughly assess existing codebases for security vulnerabilities and develop or support remediations and enhancements including mitigating memory-related security flaws such as buffer overflows and memory leaks
• Deep subject matter expertise in database security, application security, software security, or data security
• Deep knowledge database engines,database internals and applied cryptography
• Demonstrated ability to identify and fix security issues through manual code review, application penetration testing, or red teaming
• Scripting experience and ability to contribute code back to our environments
• Comfortable leading threat modeling and being a security ambassador to other engineering teams
• Communicate complex technical issues in a simple manner that builds trust with a variety of audiences
• A strong sense of ownership and delivery
• Can facilitate a conversation rather than dominate it
• Skilled at providing collaborative, actionable feedback, not just a list of flaws

• Working knowledge of one or more major cloud providers (AWS, GCP, or Azure)
• Experience with large scale environments

• Taking ownership of one or more security programs such as appsec, cloud, or detect/response
• Seeing projects through from conception to completion in order to deliver new services or capabilities for the team
• Establishing yourself as a go-to person for discussing security topics

This role can be based out of our East Coast offices or remotely in the United States.

This role specifically follows a weekend support model (Wednesday-Sunday, Saturday-Wednesday, or Friday-Tuesday, with the next two days as the week-off) and requires adherence to East Coast Hours (9am to 5pm EST). If you're passionate about being an Escalation Engineer working with our largest enterprise customers and are open to flexible, weekend-oriented scheduling, we encourage you to apply.

You should have 7+ years of relevant experience. We consider all candidates, with an eye for those who are self-taught, insatiably curious, and multi-faceted.

It’s crucial for every candidate that they can check off all of these boxes:

• Strong team partnerships: Understanding of when and how to seek help from team members, skill in choosing from and/or synthesizing potentially conflicting perspectives or approaches, and ability to lead in collaborative efforts
• Work across multi-functional teams to resolve extremely impactful customer issues
• Deep and nuanced experience working with customers in escalated situations
• Great communication and account leadership skills, with a good organizational understanding of customers
• Enjoy getting deeply involved in and taking ownership of tricky cases, and driving them through to resolution
• Able to quickly understand and communicate about customer workloads, use cases, and resiliency criteria, including performance, availability, and scalability
• Comfortable reading and quickly navigating unfamiliar code, with coding/scripting proficiency in one or more languages: Java, Python, Ruby, C, C++, C#, Javascript, node.js, Go, etc
• Strong systems engineering and troubleshooting experience, including Linux performance, memory management, I/O tuning, configuration, security, networking, virtualization, clustering
• Storage engineering experience, including SAN, NAS, SSD, multi-pathing, caching, and tuning
• Experience building, maintaining, tuning, and troubleshooting sophisticated mission-critical production database systems
• Experience analyzing and pursuing issues holistically, from the client and application tiers, through the database, down to the storage, and any potentially unfamiliar corners in between
• Genuine desire to help people, and to increase their confidence and good will
• At your best when thinking on your feet, solving problems in real-time, and reducing pressure and anxiety through calm, authoritative technical leadership

• Experience managing large scale databases (e.g. RDBMS, NoSQL)
• Experience with authentication systems such as LDAP, Kerberos, AD
• Experience using or managing MongoDB
• Experience using distributed version control systems, and in particular git
• Experience using any cloud services stack such as AWS, Azure or GCP

• In 3 months, have gained a deep understanding of MongoDB and its ecosystem. You will complete New Hire Training
• In 6 months, be confident working frontline with our customers. You will also complete the MongoDB Certified DBA Associate exam
• In 12 months, be handling highly technical and escalated cases independently, ensuring customers are successful and happy with MongoDB

• 10+ years of experience in data management systems
• Experience with building production-level code with a large user base, robust design structure and rigorous code quality
• Degree in Computer Science or similar field, or equivalent practical experience, with strong competencies in data structures, algorithms, and software design/architecture
• Experience with large code bases written in C++ or another systems programming language. You'll need to trace down defects, estimate work complexity, and design evolution and integration strategies as we rewrite different components of the system
• Passion for the theory and practice of database query engines, as well as hands-on or academic experience in the database domain

• Be directly responsible for delivering on goals which span a 6-18 month timeframe
• Play a key role in defining the roadmap for the next 12 months
• Write well tested, production-ready code in C++ (our test infrastructure also leverages Python and Javascript)
• Research state-of-the art query systems to inform our design
• Leverage deep knowledge of the strength and weakness of the product and of industry trends to provide technical vision and direction
• Advise management on decisions related to roadmap, processes, architecture and design
• Collaborate with stakeholders and engineering teams across the company to jointly work on large initiatives
• Influence and grow team members through active mentoring, coaching and leading by example
• Help cultivate a strong talent bench through interviewing, mentoring and knowledge sharing

• In three months you’ll have contributed to the development of a project slated for the next major version, as well as fixed a few bugs in a minor version of our latest stable release series; You'll have learned about MongoDB's project lifecycle, and our long-term goals for the system
• In six months, you’ll have taken on code review responsibilities and are playing an active role in drafting and reviewing the design for new features; You have expanded the team's horizons by presenting a favorite paper or system architecture related to query systems
• In twelve months, on the basis of your extensive past experience in the query space, you have contributed to the long-term technical roadmap of the MongoDB Query team