Staff Engineer

Role overview

Staff Engineer at MongoDB

<p>We are looking for a Staff Engineer to set technical direction and lead delivery of this platform.

<p>We are looking to speak to candidates who are based in Gurugram for our hybrid working model.</p>

<h3>A strong candidate for this position will have:</h3>

Responsibilities

• You will combine deep systems engineering with product judgment, turning ambiguous requirements into reusable services and working integrations.

Employment details

• Location: Gurugram

Application details

• <p>MongoDB's Application Modernization Platform (AMP) helps organizations modernize legacy applications and move their workloads and associated data from relational databases to MongoDB.

About the employer

• <li>Domain Expertise: In-depth background in application modernization, relational database systems, MongoDB ecosystems, automated code transformation, and enterprise data migration pipelines</li>
• <p>MongoDB is built for change, empowering our customers and our people to innovate at the speed of the market.
• Our cloud-native platform, MongoDB Atlas, is the only globally distributed, multi-cloud data platform and is available across AWS, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure.</p>
• <p>Our compass at MongoDB is our <a href="https://www.mongodb.com/company">Leadership Commitment,</a> guiding how and why we make decisions, show up for each other, and win.
• <p>MongoDB is an equal opportunities employer.</p>

Benefits

• <p>To drive the personal growth and business impact of our employees, we’re committed to developing a supportive and enriching culture for everyone. <a href="https://www.mongodb.com/company/blog/culture/employee-benefits-that-make-a-difference-at-mongodb">From employee affinity groups, to fertility assistance and a generous parental leave policy</a>, we value our employees’ wellbeing and want to support them along every step of their professional and personal journeys.<a href="https://www.mongodb.com/blog/channel/culture"> Learn more about what it’s like to work at MongoDB</a>, and help us make an impact on the world!</p>

Additional role details

• Our customers need a dependable way to bring analysis, transformation, testing, and migration capabilities into their modernization workflows.</p>
• <p>The Platform team builds the shared foundations that make AMP a cohesive product.
• We connect specialized tools and services through consistent interfaces, integrate them with AI agents and development environments, and make them secure, observable, and straightforward to deploy and operate.
• Our work enables product teams to deliver new capabilities without repeatedly solving the same integration and infrastructure problems.</p>
• You will define clear boundaries between platform, product teams, and external partners; make deliberate build-versus-integrate decisions; and contribute foundational code.
• Your impact will be measured by how reliably teams and customers can adopt and use AMP capabilities, and how much engineering effort the platform removes from their path.</p>
• <ul>
• <li>Technical Leadership: Over 8 years in software engineering and production operations, with a proven history of championing major technical strategies and deploying resilient, scalable architectures</li>
• <li>Platform Engineering: Deep practical expertise architecting common frameworks, distributed architectures, or core developer tooling leveraged across multiple organizations or customer environments</li>
• <li>API & System Design: Track record of establishing and refining service boundaries, interfaces, and data schemas with a sharp focus on backward compatibility, extensibility, and smooth adoption</li>
• <li>Operational Rigor: Practical expertise maintaining mission-critical services, driving observability, incident recovery, performance tuning, automated test suites, and continuous delivery workflows</li>
• <li>Security Integration: Demonstrated success constructing safe integrations, implementing strict auth mechanisms while protecting proprietary client code, sensitive data, and authentication tokens</li>
• <li>Cross-Functional Impact: Ability to spearhead architectural direction across team boundaries, communicate complex tradeoffs, offer constructive guidance, and mentor engineers throughout execution</li>
• <li>Product Sense: Sharp product judgment that converts developer requirements and user feedback into clear roadmaps, tangible milestones, and clear success criteria</li>
• </ul>
• <h3>Not required but beneficial:</h3>
• <li>AI Agent & LLM Integration: Hands-on experience embedding intelligent agents or language model workflows into enterprise platforms, including defining execution contexts, robust tool interfaces, and mitigating nondeterministic operational behavior</li>
• <li>Developer Tooling & Distribution: Expertise delivering developer-centric software—such as CLIs, custom SDKs, containerized architectures, or self-hosted components—deployed directly within client-managed infrastructure</li>
• <h3>Position Expectations</h3>
• <li>Architectural Vision & Strategy: Formulate core service layers and integration frameworks enabling seamless AMP functionality.
• Define strict service-level boundaries with collaborating engineering orgs, iteratively maturing platform primitives using production workloads</li>
• <li>Agent & Tooling Integration: Spearhead engineering initiatives to expose platform capabilities via resilient CLI tools and APIs, connecting them cleanly with autonomous agent frameworks while managing tenant isolation, auth state, and operational context</li>
• <li>Deployment & Lifecycle Engineering: Optimize distribution, automated upgrades, and runtime execution across client enterprise environments.
• Establish holistic telemetry, structured logging, and actionable diagnostics to streamline incident recovery and troubleshooting</li>
• <li>Security & Enterprise Quality: Work closely alongside security engineers to safeguard customer intellectual property, ensuring robust execution isolation and embedding security controls directly into release pipelines</li>
• <li>Cross-Functional Strategy Execution: Align product management, field teams, and external technical partners to translate user demands into high-impact roadmaps, driving implementation from discovery through widespread client adoption</li>
• <li>Technical Leadership & Excellence: Author core infrastructure components, lead rigorous architectural reviews, and elevate team capabilities through shared design paradigms, thorough documentation, and hands-on mentoring</li>
• <h3>Success Measures</h3>
• <p>3 Months Objectives:</p>
• <li>Develop comprehensive mastery of system architectures, user journeys, and technical constraints while fostering key cross-functional partnerships</li>
• <li>Unify stakeholders around a strategic engineering initiative, defining architectural boundaries, delivery roadmaps, and baseline operational metrics</li>
• <li>Deploy a high-impact core component that validates key design paradigms and eliminates key operational friction for internal adopters</li>
• <p>6 Months Objectives:</p>
• <li>Spearhead production rollout of major shared services with defined interfaces, comprehensive telemetry, and sustainable operational framework support</li>
• <li>Drive quantifiable progress in target performance indicators, including onboarding speed, integration complexity, system resilience, and mean time to resolution</li>
• <li>Influence overall technical direction alongside product partners, establishing systematic cadences for architectural reviews and execution milestones</li>
• <p>12 Months Objectives:</p>
• <li>Establish foundational platform primitives powering enterprise-wide capabilities, ensuring high-availability operations and seamless upgrade paths</li>
• <li>Demonstrate tangible efficiency gains across product teams by significantly lowering maintenance overhead and accelerating modernization deployment speed</li>
• <li>Serve as a key technical champion, mentoring talent, elevating engineering standards, and participating actively in talent acquisition</li>
• <h3>About MongoDB</h3>
• We have redefined the data platform for the AI era, enabling builders to create, transform, and disrupt industries with software.
• MongoDB’s unified data platform, the most widely available, globally distributed data platform on the market, helps organizations modernize legacy workloads, embrace innovation, and unleash AI.
• <p>With offices worldwide and over 67,000 customers, including AI-native startups and approximately 75% of the Fortune 100, relying on MongoDB for their most important applications, we’re powering the next era of software.</p>
• It’s what makes us MongoDB. </p>
• <p>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.</p>
• <p><em>Requisition ID 3273551917</em></p>