Job Description
Join the MongoDB Server Query team and help us build a world-class distributed open source query engine. Our team plays a crucial role in the experience and performance of data processing. We are responsible for the MongoDB Query Language and the lifecycle of each query from parsing to optimization to plan selection and finally execution. This also includes our geospatial search and update subsystems.
Our global team is growing fast. In North America we have a presence across the US and Canada including New York West Coast Toronto. In Europe we have a presence in Dublin Germany France Netherlands UK Bulgaria Spain and Italy currently. We support office-based and remote work and align projects with convenient work hours for each time-zone.
We have tons of interesting problems to solve with direct impact on users for transactional time-series and analytical workloads. We need your help to design and build the heart of a distributed flexible schema document database.
This role can be based out of our New York City Atlanta Boston offices or remotely in the East Coast region.
Candidate Profile- 3+ years of experience in data intensive environments
- Hands-on experience building industrial-strength software
- Solid computer science fundamentals with strong competencies in data structures algorithms and software design/architecture
- Experience with large code bases
- B.Sc in Computer Science or similar field or equivalent practical experience
- Experience in developing database systems is a plus
- Interest in the theory and practice of database query engines. Hands-on experience or M.Sc./Ph.D in the domain is a plus
- Understand and improve current functionality of the MongoDB query engine
- Identify design implement test and support new features related to query performance and robustness query language enhancements diagnostics for query performance problems and integration with other products and tools
- Work with other engineers to coordinate seamless changes in a feature-rich large code base
- Work with other teams including client drivers cloud services enterprise tools support consulting education and marketing to coordinate changes or contribute to their projects
- 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
- In six months you’ll have taken on code review responsibilities and are involved in reviewing the design for new features
- In twelve months you’re making significant contributions to the development of a new major features
MongoDB is built for change empowering our customers and our people to innovate at the speed of the market. We have redefined the database for the AI era enabling innovators to create transform and disrupt industries with software. MongoDB’s unified database platform the most widely available globally distributed database on the market helps organizations modernize legacy workloads embrace innovation and unleash AI. Our cloud-native platform MongoDB Atlas is the only globally distributed multi-cloud database and is available across AWS Google Cloud and Microsoft Azure.
With offices worldwide and over 60000 customers including 75% of the Fortune 100 and AI-native startups relying on MongoDB for their most important applications we’re powering the next era of software.
Our compass at MongoDB is our Leadership Commitment guiding how and why we make decisions show up for each other and win. It’s what makes us MongoDB.
To drive the personal growth and business impact of our employees we’re committed to developing a supportive and enriching culture for everyone. From employee affinity groups to fertility assistance and a generous parental leave policy we value our employees’ wellbeing and want to support them along every step of their professional and personal journeys. Learn more about what it’s like to work at MongoDB and help us make an impact on the world!
MongoDB is committed to providing any necessary accommodations for individuals with disabilities within our application and interview process. To request an accommodation due to a disability please inform your recruiter.
MongoDB Inc. provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type and makes all hiring decisions without regard to race color religion age sex national origin disability status genetics protected veteran status sexual orientation gender identity or expression or any other characteristic protected by federal state or local laws.
Req. ID: 1273413026
MongoDB’s base salary range for this role is posted below. Compensation at the time of offer is unique to each candidate and based on a variety of factors such as skill set experience qualifications and work location. Salary is one part of MongoDB’s total compensation and benefits package. Other benefits for eligible employees may include: equity 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 and health benefits offerings. Please note the base salary range listed below and the benefits in this paragraph are only applicable to U.S.-based candidates.
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04/24/2026
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