Job Description
MongoDB is building a world-class team in North America to create tooling that helps customers migrate their data from legacy relational databases to MongoDB in real-time. As companies modernise their application and data ecosystems they are increasingly drawn to the flexibility and scalability of the document model. The tools developed by the Data Migration team are critical in this journey helping customers with schema modeling initial data loads and continuous data synchronization.
We are looking for an experienced Staff Engineer with experience in the Java ecosystem streaming systems and data-intensive applications to join our team. We are building a sophisticated data migration suite using a modern technology stack which includes Java Spring Boot Kafka Debezium and React. A successful candidate will be a key contributor to our backend services collaborating closely with product management and other engineers to design and implement cutting-edge products that solve complex customer challenges.
We are looking to speak with candidates based in California Oregon or Washington for our hybrid or remote working models.
The ideal candidate for this role will have- 8+ years of commercial software development experience with at least one JVM language such as Java preferably using the Spring ecosystem
- Extensive experience with streaming data platforms such as Apache Kafka and Change Data Capture (CDC) tools like Debezium
- Extensive experience with relational data modeling and hands-on experience with at least one SQL database (Postgres MySQL etc)
- Exposure to client-side technologies such as JavaScript and React is a plus
- Empower the engineering team with unparalleled thought leadership on emerging technologies and best practices
- Proactively engage with product leaders and senior management to align technical solutions with overarching business strategies
- Mentor and guide junior and senior engineers on best practices in data structures algorithms and database design
- Participate in code reviews design discussions and contribute to the overall technical direction and roadmap of the team
- Curiosity a positive attitude and a drive to continue learning
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Architectural Leadership: Drive the architectural vision and technical strategy for the data migration engine and its surrounding ecosystem. Contribute core foundational code that solves the hardest scalability problems and sets the standard for the rest of the team
- Strategic Partnership: Partner closely with Engineering Leadership Product Management and Design to shape the technical roadmap. Anticipate future business needs and translate them into scalable long-term technical initiatives
- Engineering Excellence & Mentorship: Define and champion engineering best practices patterns and standards across multiple teams. Actively mentor Senior and Mid-level engineers cultivating a culture of technical excellence and continuous learning
Within the first three months you will have
- Familiarized yourself with the MongoDB database and aggregation language
- Familiarized yourself with the problem space and the domain
- Set up software development infrastructure (tech stack build tools etc) to enable development using the relevant tech stacks
- Started collaborating with your peers and contributed to code reviews
Within six months you will have
- Worked on and delivered a large-scale code analysis feature in the product
- Contributed to and helped deliver a few releases of the product
- Reviewed and contributed to scope and technical design documents
Within twelve months you will have
- Delivered large-scale features across our entire tech stack
- Helped recruit interview and mentor new members of the team
- Collaborated with other teams at MongoDB
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: 4263333172
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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04/04/2026
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