Senior Software Engineer

Senior Software Engineer – Cloud Core Alerts Platform

Join Mongo

DB as a Senior Software Engineer on the Cloud Core Alerts Platform team. Build scalable, fault‑tolerant, highly available systems that process millions of events and alerts in real time.

Overview

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DB’s mission is to empower innovators to create, transform, and disrupt industries by unleashing the power of software and data. The Cloud Core Alerts Platform team builds distributed systems that power real‑time alerting, eventing and communication across Atlas customers.

Responsibilities

• 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 streaming alerting and eventing platforms, improving reliability, throughput and developer experience.

• Collaborate with cross‑functional teams to integrate alerting, eventing 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.

• Strong communicator, collaborator and problem solver.

Technologies We Use

• Java

• Apache Flink, Amazon Kinesis, Kafka

• gRPC, Protobuf, REST

• Mongo

DB, S3

• AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform

Benefits

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

• Be part of a team modernizing and evolving core observability services for Mongo

DB 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.

Accommodations

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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.

Equal Employment Opportunity

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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.

Base Salary Range (U.S.)

$118,000—$231,000 USD

Seniority Level

Mid‑Senior level

Employment Type

Full‑time

Job Function

Engineering and Information Technology

Industries

Software Development

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