Senior Software Engineer, DBX

The Database Experience team builds the libraries and tools that developers use day-to-day working with Mongo

DB. Our mission is to increase developer adoption, satisfaction and retention by providing a reliable, enjoyable interface for developers and other end-users.

Our senior engineers are typically specialists in a particular programming language, but are capable of contributing to projects in other languages as well.

• Maintain and build features for the Mongo
  
  DB Node.js Driver along with its dependencies and native C++ addons (bson, mongodb-client-encryption, @mongodb-js/zstd, kerberos).
• Contribute to the common driver specifications supporting the full range of Mongo
  
  DB features.
• Investigate bugs and support requests from commercial customers, open source users, and internal users for the libraries our team maintains.
• Collaborate closely with peers in our distributed world-wide engineering team.

• Are interested in focusing exclusively on building backend libraries and tools for other developers
• Are fascinated by, and have experience working with concurrency, parallelism and distributed systems
• Want to participate in Open Source software development and communities
• Communicate well, internally and externally, both in writing and face-to-face
• Advocate for testing and agile development best practices
• Can make pragmatic design tradeoffs while balancing features, maintainability, and delivery time
• Enjoy collaborating with and elevate the skills and expertise of those around you

• Have 4+ years of experience writing high-quality software
• Experience with databases, relational or non-relational
• Good written and spoken English communication skills

• Experience contributing to open source projects
• Experience building production applications with mongoose and/or the Node.js driver itself
• Experience using or contributing to open source AI frameworks/integrations such as Lang Chain or n8n
• Experience working with Mongo
  
  DB and the document model
• A diversity of experience writing tests for the software you developed (unit, integration, end to end, performance, etc)
• A working knowledge of C++

• Within one month, you will understand the high-level architecture of the driver and how Mongo
  
  DB works, and will have completed a few small bug fixes and/or feature tickets.
• Within three months, you will be contributing effectively day-to-day, fixing bugs, implementing planned features, and thoroughly reviewing your colleagues’ pull requests.
• Within six months, you will have implemented major features, planned new features, contributed to our common driver specifications, and will be collaborating with the Product team to help craft our roadmap.
• Within twelve months, you'll have significantly improved the quality, performance and maintainability of our codebase, and will be taking the lead in designing and specifying major new features.

Mongo

DB 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. Mongo

DB’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, Mongo

DB 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 Mongo

DB for their most important applications, we’re powering the next era of software.

Our compass at Mongo

DB is our Leadership Commitment, guiding how and why we make decisions, show up for each other, and win. It’s what makes us Mongo

DB.

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DB 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.

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DB, 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.

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DB’s base salary range for this role in Canada is:

$137,000 — $189,000 CAD