Senior Software Engineer, Data Migration & Code Generation

MongoDB is building a world-class team in North America to create tooling that helps customers modernize their applications and migrate their data from legacy relational databases to MongoDB in real-time. The role involves designing, building, and optimizing data structures and algorithms to power generative AI and migration tools.

Responsibilities

• Contribute high-quality, well-tested backend code to the data migration engine and core components of our generative AI orchestration platform
• Collaborate effectively with Product Management, AI researchers and machine learning engineers and designers to build and deliver on the product roadmap
• Work to develop robust and efficient backend services that orchestrate AI functionalities
• Identify and address performance bottlenecks and architectural challenges in our systems, particularly within data flow and orchestration
• Participate actively in code reviews to enforce best practices and patterns
• Help troubleshoot and resolve complex technical issues in our distributed systems
• Give and solicit feedback on technical design documents and pull requests
• Perform tasks related to process such as CI/CD, quality, testing, etc

Skills

• 6+ years of engineering experience in backend systems, distributed systems, or core platform development
• Proficiency in one or several of Java, Rust, C/C++, and/or Python, with a strong understanding of systems-level programming, memory management, and performance tuning
• 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
• Good understanding of algorithms, data structures and their time and space complexity
• Curiosity, a positive attitude, and a drive to continue learning
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Familiarity with cloud-native distributed systems (e.g., Kubernetes)
• Experience with NoSQL databases and understanding of their trade-offs is great, but not required. We'll teach you NoSQL
• Contributions to relevant open-source projects

Benefits

• 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
• Health benefits offerings

Company Overview

• MongoDB is a next-generation database that helps businesses transform their industries by harnessing the power of data. It was founded in 2007, and is headquartered in New York, New York, USA, with a workforce of 5001-10000 employees. Its website is https://www.mongodb.com/.

Company H1B Sponsorship

• MongoDB has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships, with 159 in 2025, 150 in 2024, 133 in 2023, 79 in 2022, 51 in 2021, 30 in 2020. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role.