MongoDB
Senior Software Engineer, Cluster Scalability
$101K–$273K
United States +1 · Senior · Full-time · Posted Sep 24, 2026
- Location
- United States
New York, NY, United States - Experience
- 5+ years building distributed systems.
- Education
- Degree in Computer Science or similar field, or equivalent practical experience.
About the job
Build distributed infrastructure for MongoDB data partitioning, data movement, and dynamic scaling, enabling clusters to scale reliably while maintaining performance.
What you'll do
- Design and build distributed systems for data movement, placement, and horizontal scaling.
- Solve complex performance problems and develop protocols that move and place data without disruption.
- Contribute to feature development, code and design reviews, and mentoring engineers.
What they ask for
- 5+ years of experience building distributed systems.
- Experience writing production-level C++ code for a large user base, with robust design and rigorous code quality.
- Degree in Computer Science or a similar field, or equivalent practical experience; strong data structures, algorithms, and software design/architecture competencies.
- Strong understanding of system design for large-scale distributed systems and modern computer architecture and internals.
Nice to have
- Demonstrated industry success or academic research in high-performance/low-latency networking, performance tuning, distributed systems, system observability, or system resiliency.
Pay
$101,000 — $273,000 USD (base salary)
Tools
C++, MongoDB
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