MongoDB Senior Software Engineer DBX 

United States 

94456794

Our senior engineers are typically specialists in a particular programming language, but are capable of contributing to projects in other languages as well.

• Maintain and build features for the MongoDB Node.js Driver along with its dependencies and native C++ addons (bson, mongodb-client-encryption, @mongodb-js/zstd, kerberos)
• Contribute to JavaScript open source client libraries and MongoDB AI/ML integrations and ODMs (e.g., mongoose)
• Contribute to the common driver specifications supporting the full range of MongoDB features
• Investigate bugs and support requests from commercial customers, open source users, and internal users for the libraries our team maintains
• Collaborate closely with peers in our distributed world-wide engineering team

• Have deep knowledge of the JavaScript ecosystem, and an interest in staying up-to-date on ecosystem trends and best practices and incorporating them into your work
• Are fascinated by, and have experience working with concurrency, parallelism and distributed systems
• Want to participate in Open Source software development and communities
• Communicate well, internally and externally, both in writing and face-to-face
• Advocate for testing and agile development best practices
• Can make pragmatic design tradeoffs while balancing features, maintainability, and delivery time
• Enjoy collaborating with and elevate the skills and expertise of those around you

• Have 4+ years of experience writing high-quality software
• Significant experience working with JavaScript/TypeScript
• Experience with databases, relational or non-relational
• Good written and spoken English communication skills

• Experience contributing to open source projects
• Experience building production applications with mongoose and/or the Node.js driver itself
• Experience using or contributing to open source AI frameworks/integrations such as LangChain or n8n
• Experience working with MongoDB and the document model
• A diversity of experience writing tests for the software you developed (unit, integration, end to end, performance, etc)
• A working knowledge of C++

• Within one month, you will understand the high-level architecture of the driver and how MongoDB works, and will have completed a few small bug fixes and/or feature tickets
• Within three months, you will be contributing effectively day-to-day, fixing bugs, implementing planned features, and thoroughly reviewing your colleagues’ pull requests
• Within six months, you will have implemented major features, planned new features, contributed to our common driver specifications, and will be collaborating with the Product team to help craft our roadmap
• Within twelve months, you'll have significantly improved the quality, performance and maintainability of our codebase, and will be taking the lead in designing and specifying major new features