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Senior Staff Engineer, Developer Productivity

Job in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
Listing for: MongoDB
Full Time position
Listed on 2026-03-08
Job specializations:
  • Software Development
    Software Engineer, DevOps
Salary/Wage Range or Industry Benchmark: 175000 CAD Yearly CAD 175000.00 YEAR
Job Description & How to Apply Below
Position: Senior Staff Engineer, MongoDB Developer Productivity
The Developer Productivity team supports the software development ecosystem used by hundreds of engineers to develop and maintain Mongo

DB Server and developer tools in a complex matrix of multi‑platform self‑hosted products and multi‑cloud hosted environments. Our tools and services, as well as our domain expertise, ensure that Mongo

DB developers can ship high quality products quickly, confidently, and securely.

As a senior staff engineer you’ll be responsible for helping shape the future of our developer ecosystem and ensure we take advantage of the rapidly‑evolving engineering landscape. You will partner with engineering leadership across the company to identify system‑wide opportunities to accelerate developer velocity and efficiency, enhancing smart data collection and integrating analytics assistants that produce actionable insights every step of the way.

Our team champions a strong culture of inclusivity, diversity, and collaboration. If you like working on a strongly collaborative team that loves to experiment, have a passion for open source, and generally thrive on being a champion for software development best practices and data‑informed decision making, this is the role for you.

Candidate Profile

Minimum 10 years of experience in the developer productivity domain in large engineering environments, including building and operationalizing complex, reliable systems

Strong experience supporting one or more of C++, Java, Go, Python, Rust, Node, Typescript

Strong understanding of Dev Ops culture and tooling

Extensive experience with CI/CD pipelines, common deployment models and infrastructure, and various techniques used to safely roll changes into production environments

Hands‑on experience implementing metrics and observability tools and best practices, as well as data processing pipeline technologies such as Iceberg, Trino, Kafka

Proven track record of driving technical execution and vision for organizations with 50+ team members

Skilled in advocating for and representing the needs of a 1000+ customer base to internal platform teams

Responsibilities

Drive strong operational excellence standards for internal software development tools and services, helping define golden paths that optimize the efficiency and velocity of our engineering organization

Design software development systems to ensure best practices and champion industry standards

Advise Engineering partners on technical implications of systems design with regards to complexity, testability, and maintainability

Lead development and project management of some of the largest projects within Mongo

DB to improve developer productivity and software quality, particularly around data‑driven insights and optimizations

Provide technical mentorship and leadership to the Developer Productivity organization, promoting best practices and fostering team growth

Bonus points if the candidate has experience with

Strong systems fundamentals, including testing and monitoring multi‑threaded systems

Performance profiling of complex systems

Leveraging best of breed AI tools & technologies in the developer productivity domain along with the necessary telemetry and analytics to measure effectiveness in a rapidly changing environment

Experience supporting the development of database internals or core components for data processing systems

Success Measures

In the first month, you will have understood the high level architecture of at least one of the systems within the Mongo

DB developer ecosystem and fixed a few bugs

In three months, you will have a broad understanding of the overall developer ecosystem and be taking on code review responsibilities

In six months, you will have taken on code and design review responsibilities for key systems within the software development ecosystem

In twelve months, you will be leading the development of Mongo

DB’s next generation developer ecosystem, helping to mentor engineers on the team, and using your experience to drive the long‑term Dev Prod‑wide technical roadmap

About MongoDB
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,…
Position Requirements
10+ Years work experience
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