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MongoDB

Senior Software Engineer

MongoDB, Nashville, Tennessee, United States, 37247

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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.

We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join the Cloud Core Alerts Platform team, building scalable, fault‑tolerant, and highly available systems that process millions of events and alerts in real time.

Domain

Alert Streaming Systems: Real‑time alerting pipelines using Apache Flink and Amazon Kinesis, delivering critical insights for MongoDB Atlas customers

Event Systems: SOA‑based event platforms leveraging gRPC and streaming architectures to power the MongoDB activity feed at scale

Communication Systems: Distributed services to deliver alert notifications through multiple channels (email, SMS, Slack, PagerDuty) with reliability and resilience

Third‑Party Integrations: Securely managing customer credentials and integrating with external observability providers, ensuring encryption at rest and in transit

Cross‑team Collaboration: Partnering with the broader Customer Observability teams to provide unified telemetry and monitoring experiences

What you’ll do

Design and build distributed systems that process millions of events per second with high availability and low latency

Lead end‑to‑end projects from design to production, ensuring scalability, observability, and operational excellence

Evolve our streaming alerting and eventing platforms, improving reliability, throughput, and developer experience

Collaborate with cross‑functional teams to integrate alerting, event, and communication services into the broader customer observability ecosystem

Develop secure, multi‑tenant integrations with third‑party providers, handling sensitive customer credentials safely

Champion best practices in distributed systems design, including resilience, scalability, and fault tolerance

Mentor and guide other engineers, sharing expertise on distributed architectures and streaming technologies

Who you are

Experienced in distributed systems, with at least 6+ years of backend engineering experience (Java, Go, or similar)

Skilled in streaming data pipelines, ideally with Apache Flink, Kafka, or Kinesis

Familiar with service‑oriented architectures (SOA) and inter‑service communication using gRPC or REST

Strong understanding of AWS (or other hyperscalers), cloud networking, and infrastructure‑as‑code patterns

Knowledgeable in encryption, authentication, and secure data handling for multi‑tenant SaaS systems

Comfortable working in high‑scale environments with millions of events and alerts per day

A strong communicator, collaborator, and a problem solver

Technologies we use

Languages & Frameworks: Java

Streaming & Messaging: Apache Flink, Amazon Kinesis, Kafka

Service Frameworks: gRPC, Protobuf, REST

Datastores: MongoDB, S3

Cloud & Infrastructure: AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform

Why Join Us?

Work on scalable distributed systems that directly impact thousands of global customers

Be part of a team modernizing and evolving core observability services for MongoDB Atlas

Collaborate with world‑class engineers and leaders driving innovation in real‑time alerting and event processing

Enjoy a supportive, inclusive, and growth‑oriented culture

Seniority level Mid‑Senior level

Employment type Full‑time

Job function Engineering and Information Technology

Industries Software Development

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.

MongoDB’s base salary range for this role in the U.S. is $118,000—$231,000 USD.

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