This role is designed for a seasoned backend-heavy engineer with at least 5 years of experience building large-scale distributed systems. You should be proficie
Work type: onsite
Location: New York City
Salary: $126,000 – $248,000/yr
Type: Full-time
This role is designed for a seasoned backend-heavy engineer with at least 5 years of experience building large-scale distributed systems. You should be proficient in a compiled language like Java, Go, or C# and have a solid grasp of cloud infrastructure (AWS, Azure, or GCP). While the focus is on security and infrastructure, you’ll also need enough full-stack comfort to navigate a React/TypeScript environment. The position offers a broad salary range ($126k–$248k) depending on experience and location, supplemented by equity and a robust benefits package including 20 weeks of parental leave. You can work from the New York City office or remotely along the East Coast. This is a central role within the Atlas platform, offering high visibility and the chance to lead major technical projects involving encryption, networking, and authentication. **You might be a good fit if you:** * Are a **US Citizen** (required for this specific security role). * Have experience launching and maintaining production-level modules in a cloud-native environment. * Enjoy "tough problem" engineering at the intersection of security and database-as-a-service. * Are comfortable collaborating across the stack, from deep backend logic to modern frontend features.
MongoDB is seeking a senior software engineer to join the Atlas Clusters Organization. The organization is responsible for building MongoDB Atlas, our database as a service offering and fastest growing product.Atlas allows users to deploy fault-tolerant, secure, globally distributed MongoDB clusters in just minutes. This includes developing software to interface with the three major cloud providers (AWS, Azure, and GCP) in order to bring security, durability, availability, and performance to all deployments of MongoDB.
The Atlas Clusters Security team creates a first-in-class cloud database security experience for our wide range of sophisticated customers. Our team develops and maintains systems for cluster networking, data encryption, database authentication, and more–enabling countless mission critical applications across the world.
This role can be based in New York City for our hybrid working model, or remotely on the East Coast.
### What you’ll do
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 60,000 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,](https://www.mongodb.com/company) 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](https://www.mongodb.com/company/blog/culture/employee-benefits-that-make-a-difference-at-mongodb), 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](https://www.mongodb.com/blog/channel/culture), and help us make an impact on the world!
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Req ID: 1273368223
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.
MongoDB’s base salary range for this role in the U.S. is:
$126,000—$248,000 USD