Software Engineer III

Quick Facts

• Role: Software Engineer III (Atlas Clusters Workload Management)

Description

Build and design new features for MongoDB Atlas and contribute to complex, large-scale projects that manage Atlas cluster infrastructure on AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud. You’ll improve performance through intelligent scaling algorithms, dynamic resource adjustment, and fleet-wide observability, while partnering with product, design, MongoDB Server, customers, and support engineers. The role emphasizes production ownership and becoming a go-to expert on parts of the system.

Responsibilities

• Build and design new Atlas features

• Contribute to and lead complex technical projects

• Collaborate with product and design teams to deliver user-focused technical solutions

• Work with customers and support engineers to fix issues

• Collaborate on the codebase, best practices, and design principles

• Learn from and mentor other team members

Requirements

• At least 3 years of professional software development experience

• Strong skills building large-scale distributed backend systems in a compiled language (Java, C#, Go, etc.)

• Comfort working across a modern web application stack (e.g., React, TypeScript, Kubernetes)

• Experience with at least one major cloud provider (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud Platform)

• Led the launch of a feature and maintained it in production

• Excellent communication skills

• Curious, collaborative, and motivated

Benefits

• Equity and 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

• Health benefits offerings

Success Measures

• 3 months: ship code into production and collaborate to solve tough problems

• 6 months: contribute to a large project

• 12 months: design new features, lead development work, and become a go-to expert on system parts