Senior Software Engineer, (Database Experience Team/ OSS)

MongoDB’s mission is to empower innovators to create, transform, and disrupt industries by unleashing the power of software and data.

We enable organizations of all sizes to easily build, scale, and run modern applications by helping them modernize legacy workloads, embrace innovation, and unleash AI.

Our industry-leading developer data platform, MongoDB Atlas, is the only globally distributed, multi-cloud database and is available in more than 115 regions across AWS, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure.

Atlas allows customers to build anywhere on the edge, on premises, or across cloud providers. With offices worldwide and over 175,000 developers joining MongoDB every month, it’s no wonder that leading organizations, like Samsung and Toyota, trust MongoDB to build next-generation, AI-powered applications.

The Database Experience team builds the libraries and tools that developers use day-to-day working with MongoDB. Our mission is to increase developer adoption, satisfaction and retention by providing a reliable, enjoyable interface for developers and other end-users.

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

For this role, we're looking for someone who enjoys designing, writing, and supporting open source libraries and standalone tools for developers and administrators using MongoDB.

You will have the opportunity to be surrounded by veteran C / C++ programmers, as you deepen your knowledge of the C / C++ ecosystem, or advance your career as a writer and speaker.

This role can be based remotely anywhere in the United States or Canada.

You'll be on the team responsible for

Development and maintenance of :

• The MongoDB C driver :
• The MongoDB C++ driver :
• libmongocrypt :

Contributing to an upcoming async C / C++ driver library

Contributing to the MongoDB driver specifications :

You might be right for this role if you

• Have 5+ years of experience in relevant roles
• Have experience implementing libraries in C and / or C++
• Have expertise in a relevant area (C++ language, network programming, async programming)
• Have made contributions to open source software
• Communicate well with coworkers and external users
• Practice test-driven development

Success in this role means

• Within three months, you will contribute code to most of the team projects. You will be able to fix bugs and implement already-planned features
• Within six months, you will contribute to the roadmap for our products and lead the design and specification of new features.

You will have the trust of the team and our internal customers. You will have responded to an externally reported request

• Within a year, you will have made a significant improvement to a codebase our team owns, and will be taking the lead in designing new features to solve novel customer challenges
30+ days ago